re: Battery Powered Shades

what size windows? you might get lucky at ikea. the house we just moved from i installed 6 of them and never added the smart hub. just a stick on wall switch that you program/sync to whatever shades you have.

they were the tredesen light blocking shades fwiw. i paid abaout $150 each and i only charge the batteries maybe twice a year raising and lowering them every morning and night

eta these were pretty much mandatory; i had 4 huge windows behind a sofa facing east so the house was miserable in the mornings and i hated climbing on top of the sofa to get to the middle shades.

worked pretty much flawlessly and all 4 downstairs stayed in sync..even if you paused them halfway down, they would all stop at the same height even if there was a delay in them all responding.