I purchased 7 iBlinds kits w/solar for Xmas with great hopes of automating my living room and dining room blinds.

My experience:  iBlinds are extreme difficult to include/exclude as they must be within a couple of feet of the controller (far more difficult than any door lock).  Calibration isn't a permanent fix (I've had to re-calibrate my blinds several times in the first month).  Device configuration leaves a lot to be desired - Devices configure as light switches in HomeSeer with both an ON/OFF and DIMMER device (which are never in sync).  Forget "Alexa".  The blinds are within 20' of the HomeSeer Controller and the Z-Wave can rarely communicate with all seven blinds.  In six weeks I have not been able to get a simple event to OPEN at 7:30AM or CLOSE at Sunset - 2 or 3 random blinds fail with communication errors each time.  I've had ton of recommendations (yes, the antennas were exposed though the hole in the plastic lid; yes I tried delays - up to 30 seconds per device; yes I tried direct controller communications (no hops) and mesh communications (more than 60 neighbors); and yes (as painful as it is) I've removed & reinstalled the devices (I went from node 92 to node 136).  The final straws:  Friday night (while I was sleeping) one blind decided to calibrate (all night) - I was impressed to discover it still calibrating Saturday morning (one hell of a battery), but very disappointed to discover it had broken the string on my $163.00 blind.  Undaunted, I purchased new Levolor blinds (2) for the dining room (plastic not wood with hopes it would solve the calibration issue) only to discover the iBlind motor was too short, or too tall with the wedge.  So I'm running with a slight bend in the rods.

My Conclusions:

iBlinds and HomeSeer are NOT a good fit.

If you want an automate blinds solution buy it from a single OEM - - NO Retrofit!