Quoya QL500 Smart Curtains System, Electric Curtain Track with Automated Rail【Motorized and Adjustable Tracks/Rod/Pole (up to 3.2 metres / 125 inches)】【Motor compatible with Alexa】

This system is quiet, reliable and solidly built. I bought the 16 foot size, for a fairly heavy curtain, and was concerned it might not handle the weight, and I am very pleased. It is made of thick aluminum, with strong connectors between track segments. The motor, track bands, hangers are well made and strong. The assembly was not intuitive, but they provided a number of video instruction links which were clear. All hardware was provided however because my curtains are 16 feet long, it was short some hangers which were not available for this model thru Amazon. I emailed the company and they sent me more hangers free.The price is great compared to the alternatives. Delivery time was short (I had to wait anyway until my wife was out of town to put it up). I assembled and mounted the whole thing myself, but I recommend having an assistant to make it easier. Overall, a fun project, and great result at an excellent price!

This is my second motorized curtain rod. Quoya is a different brand from my first rod, but otherwise it is identical (even developed with the same software), so I ordered from Quoya simply because it was $40 less expensive than the other brand.I made a video to show you the curtains, how they work, and what I like/dislike. I also summarized it here.I love being able to set the curtains (in the app) to automatically open and close every day. And the cool factor. These motorized curtain rods are Just.Plain.Cool.I had a huge advantage with assembly because I was already familiar with the installation. Quoya provides links In the instruction manual and on the Amazon product page, to VERY HELPFUL videos on assembly and installation. I never read any written instructions—based on other reviews, I knew the videos would be the most helpful. I am a “senior” female, but fairly handy—I assembled and hug the rod by myself.It is VERY IMPORTANT to watch the assembly videos. I watched before I began, and watched again during assembly, pausing regularly to follow the instructions and then resumed the video. The downside of a video, is that it goes too fast to follow on a step by step basis; all that pausing and restarting was a bit of a pain, but still the video was hugely helpful.With my first rod assembly, I made a minor mistake which was to insert both the two wheeled pulleys into the rod the wrong way. I had to partially disassemble the rod to correct that and put it back together again. But it was not difficult or time-consuming to do that. I knew to pay more attention to the video with the Quoya rod, and it was very smooth and quick to assemble.I hung this rod on the wall and not the ceiling. The seller provides 5 wall brackets, 10 screws, and 10 plastic drywall anchors (each bracket takes 2 screws). The drywall anchors are a little flimsy, so be careful when you push them into the wall to not compress, squish, or bend them.A complaint is that they do not give you any sort of cover to hide the screws which are exposed on each bracket. Those exposed screws make the bracket look a little unfinished. Also, I hung the curtains using pinch-pleat drapery clips high enough so that when the curtain is closed, the top edge of the curtain hides the motorized curtain rod. However, when the curtain is open, you can see the rod. The rod is not pretty like a lot of decorative rods are—so I might need to have another project to build (or buy) a cornice to hide this rod. I wish they would make the rods a little more decorative looking.I had no trouble attaching the motor and using the remote control. Very smooth operation. Works very well.To operate the motorized rod with your phone, you can use either the TuyaSmart app or the Smart Life app. They seem identical in all respects. I prefer the Smart Life app because I already had other smart devices on that app. Either one is easy to operate. The app includes a timer feature which is very handy. You can set seemingly unlimited times of day (for whatever days of the week) to adjust the curtains to close at any % you want. Oddly, to set the timer to automatically *open* the curtains, the setting in the app is that the curtains need to be set to 0%. The only way that makes sense to me is to think of the % as representing the amount that the curtains are *closed*. So 0% means they are closed 0% (which means they are open all the way). They can be set to open/close at any % from 0 to 100.I can also use the app when I am away from home to adjust the curtain.I followed the instructions to set up the integration with Alexa. It was not hard, but I am *disappointed* in everything to do with integration with Alexa—it all needs developmental improvement. First, Alexa operation is verbal only (cannot operate with the Alexa app). That means you can use Alexa only when you are home within voice range. In order for Alexa to understand the verbal instruction, I have to say something very awkward:“Alexa, tell TuyaSmart to TURN ON the bedroom curtains”It is just not natural or logical to “turn on” curtains.And then to close the curtains, I have to say:“Alexa, tell TuyaSmart to TURN OFF the bedroom curtains.”You CANNOT ask Alexa to open the bedroom curtains 50% or half way or any other partial opening. The only way to do that is to use the TuyaSmart app (or the Smart Life app) or the remote control.Overall, I love this motorized curtain rod. I love having the curtains open and close automatically at a designated time of day. If I want to see the stars at night, I can ask Alexa to ....tell TuyaSmart to turn on the curtains (which is just weirdly worded but still convenient to have her do it). It operates /well and is reliable so far. The instructions videos are a great help. Take your time. I liked these rods so much that I bought a second one.I write honest reviews to help others make informed purchases because I read reviews myself and appreciate how helpful they can be. I hope that my review helped you!

Love it! Has made my life a bit easier. Works great. Integrated with my Alexa so I open and close with voice commands. Scheduler is great and closed blinds for me every evening without me having to ask. One of my favorite home automation products at home! Not too difficult to install. Installation videos were easy to follow. First one took about an hour. Others took 30 minutes-ish. Rod isn't ugly, but isn't super attractive, so I built a few valence boxes to hide it. Turned out great.

The product is not safe! There is no limiter switches so if system doesn't recall its opened/closed position it will break the belt, crashes the motor or your fingers.1. System does NOT remember its opened/closed position after power outage - so motor is still running until breaks something2. There is no limiter switches so if start/stop position lost system will be damaged or damage something.

Sure! Here’s a polished version of your product review:---**Absolutely Love These Draperies!**This might be my all-time favorite purchase! The draperies are equipped with a "dust to dawn" feature, so they open and close automatically, which is incredibly convenient. Plus, they can be controlled via Alexa, making it easy to adjust them with just a voice command. The installation was straightforward—just be sure to read the instructions carefully. To give the draperies a more custom, built-in look, I added a cornice board at the top, which really enhanced the overall aesthetic. Highly recommend this product if you're looking for both style and functionality!

When assembled, they work great and reliably. They are quiet and smooth, and awesome. They can be opened by manually pulling the curtains a little until the motor kicks in, by the included remote control, by the app, or by Alexa.Some of the reviews here mentioned that they cut the belt short due to confusing instructions. I think the instructions have been redone since earlier models because they are now quite different to what was described in reviews, and mostly just direct you to the Youtube videos. The Youtube videos are very easy to follow and are 100% correct for both single track and dual opening setups. Also, if in doubt, you can always leave the belt a little longer when you first cut and measure how much more you need to cut.The only issue I had with installation was that the included drywall anchors were a little flimsy and one of them started to come out from the wall, so I ended up replacing them with some stronger anchors.A note on Alexa commands. To open and close the curtains you need to say awkwardly "Alexa, turn on the curtains" or "Alexa, turn off the curtains." However, this is easily remedied by creating a routine that opens/closes the curtains when you say "Alexa, open/close the curtains"

I purchase with wave fold system and purchased semi-custom drapes with a wave/ripple fold from Twopages.com. Although both products independently work well, they do not work well together if you want the wave fold feature and semi custom drapes by both the curtains and smart curtain track from Twopages. I didn’t realize how “specialized “ wave fold drapes were. Also, the folds do not evenly stack when opened using a custom open setting, I.e. curtains open 75%. Still working out how to make it work for me.

OK, first the good stuff. This is a really nice high quality curtain track - the extrusions are really nice, the fit and finish is great, and it's pretty easy to install. The bluetooth remote is also easy to pair with the motor unit and it is super simple to switch the motor direction if open and close are the wrong way round - just press the little black button 5 times...The not so good stuff - the screws supplied to mount the wall brackets are thin, and don't work well with the plastic drywall plugs, and worse - if they happen to screw into wood they are very thin and tend to break off (using a 20v DeWalt drill, not an impact driver)The awful stuff - connecting to wifi. What a performance...it took me 3 days to finally get this to work, after trying 2 different phones and setting up a new wifi system just for this ...it turns out that SmartLife (the Tuya app) is very bad at changing wifi systems. What worked for me was using a PC to monitor wifi networks, and a phone to connect:1. Phone on the correct wifi network, in the SmartHome app, wifi curtains selected, slow LED flash button selected2. Power up the motor3. Press the button 3 times, light flashes4. On the PC, display wifi networks, wait until SmartLife_xxxx appears5. On the phone, connect to SmartLife_xxxx, return to the SmartLife app6. On the PC, wait till the SmartLife_xxxx wifi goes away7. On the phone, connect back to the wifi network the motor is being set up on.8. On the phone, return to the SmartLife appAfter doing this, it works beautifully in Home Assistant using the Tuya Local integration..Hopefully this will save others some of the pain ...

Fantastic product. I managed to use the previous wall brackets which made life easier. The one line instruction videos were magnificent. A proper English guy who knew exactly what he was talking about. That alone makes a change! Needed a few extra gliders - no problem they arrived within a couple of days. Thank you. I have heavily pleated curtains so had to connect the sliders with light cord to make them close maintaining the pleats. Job done. Product great. Instructors can’t be faulted. Service excellent. What more can ask for?

One of the best Home Improvement products I’ve ever used. Operates well, is quiet and simple to use. The instructions are a bit vague, but the videos are good and essential. One quarter of the price I was quoted by curtain shop.

Alle Videos dazu anschauen und die Montage ist ein Kinderspiel. Bauteile scheinen alle hochwertig zu sein. Funktion 1a

This curtain system is highly customisable and perfect to adapt to your exact needs. I found the online instructions very useful, and setting up the SMART functionality was much easier than with other smart devices we have here. We have very large, heavy curtains in a large bay window now opening and closing at the touch of our phone app.

The rail, the motor, the mounting system and the general build quality and ingenuity of installation is all top notch.In the box you get:1x Motor1x Remote control & wall mountVarious sticky pads for mount5x Wall Brackets (combine with ceiling brackets to make an angled wall mount)5x Ceiling brackets2x Drive beltsThe Rail is in segments of various lengths. To get the length required join the segments using the Allen screws (Allen key provided).If you need a shorter length rail you will need to cut a segment shorter, which is easily done with a decent metal hack saw saw - I don’t recommend a junior hack saw or chop saw with metal capable blade and reasonably fine teeth.Bay window?You can’t bend the rail - it’s a “rigid rail system”, and it’s wider than it is deep, so bending it really isn’t possible (you’d need to bend it on its width, which would be ridiculously difficult / impossible). I imagine someone reading this will say they could bend it, but it’s not how it’s “supposed to work” and you’d invalidate any warranty if you tried, so I wouldn’t bother and there are simpler way to achieve this anyway:3 window bay: pre-defined angles are available, just buy two and you’re away.5 window bay: you need to cut your own angles into the rail because they don’t sell per-made ones (I asked).As long as you cut your angles accurately and cleanly, so your hooks glide easily round the angled corners, the rail will work just fine.Tip for 5 bay windows: I got some 2x2 lengths of wood and cut them to match my 5 bay window ledge. So I literally copied the angles off the inside ledge onto the wood and them to make a replica I could use as template. I cut my rail to these same angles and mounted my rail onto the wooden template.Doing it this way, while a bit time consuming, could test my rail angles worked. As it was a full sized replica I could cut the belt and test the motor pulling the hooks too, so it’s worth doing, especially if you’re not someone who does a lot of DIY and isn’t used to doing precise work like this.So what’s GREAT about this system?1. Almost silent: my dogs, don’t even seem to hear this new rail in operation. When it activates they don’t even acknowledge it! By contrast, the 8+ years old, self-close system I had previously would drive my dogs insane, making them bark and run around like lunatics.2. Build quality: The motor is a beauty. It’s heavy with a fully metal casing and it’s exceptionally quiet in operation. The motor houses the wifi gear, the reset button, the wifi antenna and a captive mains lead of approx. 250cm long.The rail: beautiful quality, very sturdy and if mounted correctly and not abused, it won’t ever come down.Warranty covers the motor for THREE years - the rail and hooks shouldn’t break under normal use, so a one year warranty is ample.Spare parts (including motors, rail segments, belts and hooks) are lol available.Interesting note: I looked a many different rails before buying one and I noticed that they are STRIKINGLY similar; so much so, I suspect there may be one place manufacturing them and other companies just badge them up and flash their own firmware / make an app for smart control. I can’t prove this, but look for yourself: there’s a system for FOUR TIMES the price and it’s identical, apart from branding. If that’s true, this rail is even better value for money that I initially thought.Control for curtains:You have four “usual” ways to operate your curtains, plus several other options of you’re into home automation.1. Remote Control2. Tuya Smart Life App3. Manual (like normal curtains)4. Voice / Smart Home / Other1. Remote Control (provided): a cream / beige coloured, slim line, smart looking, 3 button controller:The buttons are:1. open 2. close 3. pause.The remote is supplied with a wall mounting bracket, so you don’t lose it; there are 2 supplied options for attaching the bracket to the wall:1. 3M sticky tape2. screws & plugsUsing the remote is easy. It works straight from the box (you supply the batteries - 2x AAAs). I found the remote operation a little odd at first because it didn’t do what I expected, but it does make sense when you get used to it.To open or close the curtains you press the open or close button. This starts the curtains moving.If you want them fully open / closed, just press the appropriate button and let them do their thing.If you want to stop the curtains part way, you start them off opening / closing, then press PAUSE when they are in the position you want them.2. The Tuya Smart Life App:A. Download the app for Android or Apple and paid your curtain motor by following the (only decent set of) instructions provided.B. You can drag the little sliders to open or close the curtains wherever you want, which is very intuitive and useful.In the app there are also some options for closing at dusk or at sunset (sunset tends to close while it’s still light, dusk is usually when it’s dark). You can set up various timers in the app, pair with Alexa or GoogleVoice assistants and all kinds of other stuff. It’s impressive and easy to use and operating curtains while away from home is easy to do.The app also performs a very useful function if you happen to have the buttons reverse, so open is close and close is open….THE APP PAUSE BUTTON & Switching the OPENING / CLOSING buttons around.Why would you want to switch the open and close buttons?Some people build the rail and find that Close is Open and Open is Close.While it may not bother you if you exclusively use the remote control unit, you will find that the app / timers / scenes / smart home operation it will all be reversed whichwill cause you problems.To switch the open / close function buttons you need the Tuya Smart Life App installed (I believe you do anyway).In the App:PRESS AND HOLD THE PAUSE ICON FOR A FEW SECONDS.A message will flash up telling you the directions are reversed.Simple as that - you don’t need to rebuild the rail or anything complex or cumbersome, just press and hold pause in the app. There may be a way to do this from the remote unit but I haven’t tried it so I don’t know.3. Manual operationSay you don’t have your phone to hand and haven’t set up voice and your remote isn’t handy. Or maybe someone doesn’t realise you have smart curtains and just wants to open or close the curtains and doesn’t understand that you need a remote or an app…If you gently pull the curtains, just as you would if you wanted to open them by hand (not like a lunatic or someone with no fine motor control - like a normal human with a brain) the motor sense this and sets off the automation. Gently pulling the curtains will set them in motion opening or closing and stopping when fully open or closed.I’ve tried this over 10 times personally and so have my kids. So far (this rail has been up just over a month at time of writing) it has worked 100% of the time. It only takes a gentle pull in the appropriate direction: You have to move the curtains about 3cm before they will set off.If you yank at your curtains or try to drag them along faster than they are designed to move, you will break them.4. Voice / smart home / otherI never use voice operated anything because, personally, I find it cumbersome and pretty useless. Never tried it, can’t comment.Smart home - with Home Assistant it’s great. I’ve set up a few “close curtains / the lights on” scenes and “if temp outdoor < 3c then close curtains “. They work great and Smart Life is a HACS integration in Hassio / Home Assistant so it’s easy to set up.How fast do they open / close?My curtains take approx 11 seconds to fully open or close. That’s when I use the remote or the app.The window in this case is 280cm wide and the curtains have to close over a 210cm gap.So works out as (roughly, rounding it) 20cm per second - which is pretty quick.I can’t honestly imagine and real life situation where you’d need a faster closing time than 20cm/s… maybe if you’re a vampire and there’s and unexpected sunrise?If you genuinely do need curtains that close faster, if recommend a pneumatic security screen, like they in banks: I believe they can close a 1m gap in under a second…Mains leads: some reviews says it’s a 90cm lead but mine is 250cm.The lead is captive in the motor so unless you dismantle it and swap it, you need an extension lead or a socket on the wall near the curtains.What’s bad:The Instructions! What a crappy, poorly thought out set of instructions these are!Utterly garbage and worthless: frustrating, annoying and pointless.Annoyingly, once you inderstand how to set the rail up, you realise there’s NO NEED at all for these instructions to be so bad!I suspect the designer, or someone who’d built a thousand of these things, created the instructions as an afterthought. The pairing instructions are great, but the buildtutorial is utterly useless.To Quoya: please create a better instruction / guide. It’s not difficult.1. Write out the instructions step by step.2. Try following them yourself, as written. Change anything that’s wrong or not clear.3. Give your instructions to someone who has NEVER seen or used the product and watch them as they follow your guide.4. Change anything that is wrong or misleading and take feedback from the tester.5. Repeat steps 4 and 5 until someone who’s NEVER seen or used the product and assemble it FIRST TIME without help.Done right, decent instructions can change a mediocre product into a brilliant one. Done wrong, they can make a brilliant product into an utter failure no one wants to use.What’s wrong with the instructions?For a start, there barely are any! The few that exist are badly executed drawings that don’t show anything useful and just aren’t clear.They try to rectify this with several videos with truly AWFUL, looping music, which is irritating as hell when you’re trying to concentrate.Also the videos have NO COMMENTARY - just a video of someone building a rail and pointing at things like a Mime! It would be funny if it weren’t their only method of instruction.I watched all their videos several times, but without a voice-over I found it impossible to understand what was happening on screen most of the time. The other tragic decision was to put these videos on YouTube! So you get adverts popping up constantly which, when you’re trying to follow a guide, is REALLY IRRITATING.Why are there no voice instructions? You can’t watch a screen and work with your hands and look at the rail at the same time!If having multiple languages was too expensive, so then in English - which is near Universal now anyway (I’m Italian and I read and write English fine, so do all my friends).The instructions let this product so massively I honestly believe they hinder it’s adoption. It’s so well made, beautifully packaged, very strong, resilient to damage; the motor and rail are gorgeous and the fully metal construction; the drive belt system - everything is just so very clever and well done that honestly, the instructions are bafflingly bad. This is another reason I think it’s made by one company and branded by others who create their own guides and software… Gliss would not (I hope) have such naff instruction as these.Instructions aside, it’s great value for money.To build this thing, I’d advise looking for a YouTuber who’s done their own video - watch that instead. That’s what I did in the end. As I say, once you do it, you’ll see that it’s so easy, you don’t really need the guide at all if you have a second one to build, it actually very simple, ironically.Tech Support:Their support email IS very good and they respond quickly. While advice is mostly accurate, I recommend that if you do ask for help, word your question as clearly and precisely as possible using the least number of words and leave out everything irrelevant to the question.Why?I will show you. I asked support, “how can I stop my curtain tops looking bumpy and raggedy? I only have 7 hooks per curtain as recommended in the guide, but they bunch up and look untidy. Would a wave system help? My curtains are pencil pleat and I don’t know if wave is better”.I asked this because I knew that if I used more hooks (they give you 10 per curtain) my curtains would not open fully: they take up space in the rail and obviously stop to curtain being able to open into that used space.Anyway, that was my question.Their answer: “more hooks are available from the site if you’d like to order more for the rail. You don’t need wave if you have pencil pleat already”.As you see, this isn’t a very useful answer. I wanted to know tips on tidying the tops of my pencil pleat curtains and if I could use wave. All I found out was that I could buy hooks.I never did get a useful answer but I made the rail a little longer and added more hooks to give extra support and that worked ok.So be careful when you ask a question and don’t give detail that isn’t relevant or which can be misunderstood. If you do that their answers will be more useful.