How to Program Forest Shuttle Curtain Motors

Set the end positions on a new motor

1. Pull the drapery toward the CLOSE position until the motor takes over. This sets the direction and the closed position.
2. The motor closes the drapery, returns it to OPEN by itself and stops. The yellow LED4 lights.
3. Within 10 seconds, move the drapery by hand or remote to where it should stack when open.
4. Leave it for 10 seconds. LED4 goes off: the open position is stored.

Forest gives no separate direction setting: the motor learns it from that first pull toward CLOSE.

Pair a remote or wall switch

1. Select the channel you want on the remote or wall switch.
2. With a pen, press the button under the motor 3 times. The lights step from LED1 to LED3.
3. Press and hold the button once more until the green light starts blinking.
4. Within 10 seconds, press OPEN on the remote or switch. The blinking stops: paired.
5. Press CLOSE to test. If the drapery does not move, start again.

Add or remove a remote

1. On a remote that already controls the motor, press the P button on its back twice, about one second apart.
2. Switch to the new channel, or pick up the new remote set to its channel.
3. Press OPEN once. The new channel or remote now controls the motor too.

To remove a channel, follow the pairing steps but press CLOSE instead of OPEN.

Change the end positions

1. Open the drapery.
2. With a pen, press the button 4 times. The lights step from LED1 to LED4.
3. Press and hold once more until the yellow light blinks and goes off. The old end positions are cleared.
4. Push the drapery toward CLOSE until the motor takes over. It closes, then opens by itself, and the yellow light flashes.
5. While it flashes, pull the drapery to the open position you want and leave it until the light goes off.

A paired Forest remote can also clear the end positions: press P 5 times and STOP 5 times. This clears every Shuttle in range on that channel.

Touch Impulse (pull to start), speed and closed position

Touch Impulse is Forest's pull-to-start feature: tug the drapery by hand and the motor opens or closes it all the way. To change a setting, press the button the number of times shown, then press and hold once more until the light blinks 3 times and goes off.

• Touch Impulse: 8 presses for high sensitivity (factory setting), 9 for low, 10 for off.
• Speed: 1 press for 14 cm/s (factory setting), 2 for 17 cm/s.
• Closed position: 31 or 32 presses take it 1 or 2 cm further, for drapery that does not close completely; 30 presses go back to the factory setting.

Reset to factory settings

This erases the end positions and programmed settings.

1. With a pen, press the button 16 times.
2. Press and hold once more until the light blinks 3 times and goes off.
3. Set the end positions again and re-pair your remotes.

Keep the track running smoothly

On an FMS track, run a full open, close and open cycle at least every 3 months. Once a year, with the drapery fully open, spray the inside of the track with Forest dry lubricant 1502-00 (or WD-40 Specialist Dry Lube, UPC 0 79567 30005 2), wait a few minutes, then close and open the drapery fully.

EasyTouch remote

• Pick a channel with Channel - and Channel +; the light bar shows which. With all lights lit, every channel moves together.
• Batteries (2 AAA): slide the back cover up, fit them matching + and -, and slide it back. An orange flash at each press means they are low.
• Child lock (blocks programming): hold P 10 seconds until the light flickers once. Repeat to unlock.
• Favorite (Forest Link motors with end positions set): at the spot you want, hold Favorite and Stop 2 seconds; press Favorite to go there. At the favorite, the same hold clears it. One favorite per motor.

EasyTouch wall switch

Channels 1 and 2 each have Open, Stop, Close and Favorite; the 2 AAA batteries and P1 and P2 sit under the front cover (pry it off with a flathead screwdriver). Pair it with the Shuttle steps, pressing Open for channel 1 or 2; it cannot pair on its group or 0 channel. Child lock: hold P1 or P2 10 seconds, then wait 30 seconds; repeat to unlock.

Diamond Sense remote: set a timer

Up to 9 open and 9 close times. First unlock MODE and TIME: hold both about 4 seconds until LOC shows.

Then set the clock and day, in MAN mode (hold MODE until MAN shows): press TIME and set the blinking hours with OPEN or CLOSE, press TIME again for the minutes and again for the day, setting each the same way, then press STOP.

1. Hold MODE until AUTO shows, then press it once for an open time (twice for a close time).
2. Select the channel.
3. Press TIME and set the blinking hours with OPEN or CLOSE.
4. Press TIME and set the minutes the same way.
5. Press TIME, set the day or days, then press STOP.

To delete a time, press MODE once, then CH- until --:-- shows, then STOP. MAN mode pauses all timers.

Older Forest wall switch (52933)

It has channels A and B, with P buttons behind the cover. Pair it with the Shuttle steps, pressing OPEN on channel A or B. Pairings survive a change of its 12 V 27A battery.

RBS with AC motor 62903-25

Forest's sheet shows these steps on a Forest remote with a display, with the button on its back drawn as P on the pairing page and P2 on the limits page. Of Forest's remotes, the Diamond Sense has a P2 button on its back for programming tubular motors.

1. Select the channel on the remote.
2. Switch on power to the motor. It jogs.
3. Within 10 seconds, press P, then OPEN. The motor jogs: paired.
4. For the top limit, press P2 once. The motor jogs.
5. Press OPEN. The motor jogs.
6. Press P2 once. The motor jogs.
7. Adjust the shade to the top position, then press P2. The motor jogs: saved.
8. For the bottom limit, repeat steps 4 to 7 with CLOSE in place of OPEN.

Wrong direction: repeat steps 1 to 3 (power off for at least 20 seconds, then on) pressing CLOSE instead of OPEN; STOP instead removes the channel. Delete the limits: P2 twice, then OPEN. To start over, switch the power off for at least 20 seconds.

On an EasyTouch remote or a wall switch, the sheet does not say which button is P or P2, so with those, do not guess.

Installer workWe do this at installation and on service calls.

RBS iOn battery Roman motor

It needs an EasyTouch remote (Forest Link); the programming button, Prg, is inside the back of the remote.

1. Select a channel on the remote (not the group or 0 channel).
2. Disconnect the battery pack and connect it again (power on); before the motor is fitted in the shade, hold its Pairing Button 2 seconds instead. The motor jogs once.
3. Within 10 seconds, press Prg. The motor jogs twice: paired.
4. Move the shade to the top and hold Open and Fav 2 seconds. Two jogs: top limit set.
5. Move it to the bottom and hold Close and Fav 2 seconds. Two jogs: bottom limit set.

• Until both limits are set, the motor runs in step-by-step mode: the shade moves while you hold Open or Close and stops when you let go. Hold either button for 2 seconds or more and it keeps moving after you let go, until you press Stop, so use short presses near the top and bottom and be ready to press Stop.
• Once both limits are set, one press runs the shade all the way (one-touch mode); Prg, Stop, Stop (one jog after each) switches between one-touch and step-by-step mode.
• Wrong direction: before limits are set, hold Fav and Stop 2 seconds (one jog); after, press Prg, Open, Close, one jog after each.
• Favorite, only after both limits are set (before that, the same hold reverses the direction): hold Fav and Stop 2 seconds at the spot (two jogs); the same hold at the favorite clears it (one jog).
• Reset: hold the Pairing Button 16 seconds, until it jogs 4 times. All settings are deleted; set the limits again before use.
• Charging: plug a 5V/2A USB-C charger into the battery pack; its light turns from orange to blue when full, after 6 to 8 hours. Forest estimates 6 months per charge at one up and one down a day.

Tubular motor 62901-25 with the Forest wall switch

Keep the switch within 2 m of the motor while programming.

1. Briefly press the green button on the motor. It turns briefly.
2. Within 6 seconds, press P twice on the channel you want.
3. Press OPEN. The motor turns: paired.
4. For the limits, press P, OPEN, P. The motor turns.
5. Run the shade to the top, press STOP, then press STOP 5 times slowly until the motor turns.
6. Do the same at the bottom. The motor turns: limits set.

Reverse: hold the green button on the motor about 7 seconds, until it turns. Cancel the limits: P, CLOSE, P. Setting or cancelling limits on a channel changes every motor paired to that channel; cancelling clears the limits of all of them. Set limits on a channel that runs only this shade.

Tubular motor 68002-25

Forest's sheet shows these steps on a Forest remote with a display, with the button on its back drawn as P2. Of Forest's remotes, the Diamond Sense has a P2 button on its back for programming tubular motors.

1. Turn the SWITCH on the motor head to 1 (power on).
2. Press the PROGRAM button on the motor head. The motor jogs.
3. Press P2 on the back of the remote. The motor jogs.
4. Press OPEN. The motor jogs: paired.

• Reverse: PROGRAM, P2, CLOSE, one jog after each.
• Speed: hold PROGRAM 5 seconds until it jogs twice, then press OPEN (high), STOP (regular) or CLOSE (quiet).
• Unpair the remote: PROGRAM, P2, STOP. Delete all settings: P2, P2, CLOSE (two jogs). This also erases the limits, which this page does not cover, so do not run the shade until they are set again.
• Limits: Forest's sheet prints a step whose text and drawing disagree, so this page does not cover them.

On an EasyTouch remote or a wall switch, the sheet does not say which button is P2, so with those, do not guess.

Installer workWe do this at installation and on service calls.

BCS, Endeavor and Motor Technology 2.0

• BCS: Forest's BCS sheets date from 2011 and 2013, list mostly 230 V models and call for a Forest Multi remote or Multi wall switch, so this page does not cover BCS.
• Endeavor: the cassette Roman kit ships with its motor and a remote, programmed from the remote's own instructions, which this page does not cover.
• Motor Technology 2.0: Dresden, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Hanover rods with the motor pulley built in, for a Forest Shuttle or a Somfy, Lutron or Rollease motor. Forest's flyer gives no setup steps, so this page has none.

Installer workWe do this at installation and on service calls.