Rollease Acmeda Roller Shades & Automation in NYC

Automate™ battery-powered roller shades typically run $850–$1,800 per opening for standard residential sizes (up to ~72" wide) including motor, Li-ion battery, custom fabric, fascia, programming, and professional installation. Hardwired DC Automate™ adds the cost of the low-voltage transformer and a small allowance for the electrician. Oversized commercial shades on AC line-voltage Automate™ price from $1,400–$3,200 per opening. Pulse 2 hubs run $250–$400 each and one hub typically covers a full apartment or floor.

Yes. We're an authorized Automate™ installer and service partner — trained on the full RB Series motor line, Pulse 2 hub programming, integrator-driver setup (Crestron, Control4, Savant, RTI, ELAN, KNX), and the manual R-Series and S-Series clutch hardware. Authorization means we can handle warranty claims directly with Rollease Acmeda for any motor or hub failure inside the warranty window.

Almost always, yes. If your existing roller shades use Rollease Acmeda R-Series or S-Series clutches (the most common manual mechanism in NYC), we can swap the clutch and idler for an Automate™ RB Series motor without changing the fabric, tube, brackets, or fascia. The shade goes from chain-pull to app-controlled in a single visit, typically 30–45 minutes per shade. We've also retrofitted competitor hardware (Coulisse, Hunter Douglas Architectural, generic OEM) but those usually require new tubes and brackets.

Automate™ is the price-and-performance leader for residential motorization that needs to integrate with multiple smart-home platforms — Alexa, HomeKit, Crestron, Control4, and Savant all consume the Pulse 2 hub natively. Lutron Sivoia QS is the gold standard for whole-home integration where the entire system (lighting, shades, HVAC) lives on a single Lutron head-end — premium price, premium reliability. Somfy RTS and Zigbee are excellent for simple retrofits where smart-home integration isn't the priority. Many of our clients run Automate™ in primary rooms and Lutron in dedicated home-theater and primary-bedroom installs.

Typically 6–18 months per charge depending on shade size, fabric weight, and daily cycle count. A 48" wide light-filtering shade cycling twice per day on a sunrise/sunset schedule typically lasts 12–15 months. A 96" wide blackout shade cycling four times per day lasts closer to 6–8 months. Recharging takes 4–6 hours from a standard USB-C cable — most clients keep a spare battery on hand and swap rather than waiting. For installs where battery swaps are inconvenient (high ceilings, hard-to-reach windows) we recommend the hardwired DC Automate™ instead.

Yes — through the Pulse 2 hub. Pair the Pulse 2 to your router, pair the shades to the hub from the Rollease Acmeda app, and the shades are immediately accessible through Alexa, Google Home, and Apple HomeKit. Voice commands, schedules, and scene presets all work out of the box. For HomeKit specifically, the Pulse 2 hub is HAP-certified so Apple Home, Siri, and HomeKit automations work natively without third-party bridges.

Yes. We service every generation of Automate™ motors and R-Series and S-Series manual clutches regardless of where the original install came from. Common repairs are battery replacement, motor swap on out-of-warranty units, clutch replacement on manual shades, bead-chain swap, and Pulse 2 re-pairing after a router or network change. See our Automate Rollease Acmeda repair page for detail.

Yes. We carry full workers' comp and general liability insurance and provide COIs to every co-op and condo board in NYC — typically within 24 hours of the request. We're set up with most major management companies and know building-specific COI requirements in most major properties.

We install Rollease Acmeda Automate™ across all of Manhattan (Upper East Side, Upper West Side, Tribeca, SoHo, Chelsea, Hudson Yards, Midtown, West Village, Greenwich Village, Gramercy, Flatiron, FiDi), Brooklyn (Williamsburg, DUMBO, Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Fort Greene), Queens (Long Island City, Astoria, Forest Hills, Bayside), the Bronx (Riverdale), Westchester, Long Island, Hoboken, Jersey City, and Greenwich, CT.