Bond

Allen + Roth black out blinds from Lowe’s. I use it with the Bond bridge in homebridge

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You could try bond. Its something I tried after unsuccessfully trying one of those RM pros everyone talks about. The bond was great I pressed one button and used the app to identify what it thought was most likely my fan, and it’s now as if I had a smart fan, speed control, direction control, light control, optional dimmer, far beyond what I ever would have expected. If your fan is operated by an RF remote I HIGHLY recommend bond.

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The Bond Bridge and Bond HB plugin, it turns anything with an IR remote into a HomeKit accessory.Ive only added my fan but the im sire it can do most IR devices.

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One Bond will control many fans, so long as they are in RF range. If you go this route, see if you can find a canopy module that has discrete on and off buttons for the light rather than the typical toggle. There is still a chance things will get out of sync, but you will have better control of the lights. Don’t expect full dimmer control.

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Bond Bridge works perfectly. Fully integrated into HomeKit with the Homebridge plug in. 5 ceiling fans an a fireplace.

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Yes. Still working. No issues. I'm not familiar with the Bond Bridge Pro, but whichever one I have (small black circular model) is still going strong and completely trouble free. Only minor issue is that if someone adjusts the fans from the fan remotes, HomeKit doesn't get updated to the new status. It's not too much of an issue, at least for me.

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… version I had, and due to an unrelated matter, I had to reformat that computer. Upon a clean install, I wasn’t able to get the new version working. Homebridge was suggested to me and I’ve since made the jump. I’ve set up my Bond and Ring bridges, but my Switchbot and Nest bridges just will not work. I need help. The other day, I forgot that my automations weren’t functioning, and my home AC never turned on, and it was 90° degrees that day. Fortunately, the thermostats are set to kick on at 80°, so he wasn’t too uncomfortable. I need to get these bridges working. If you can help me, I’d really …

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I used a bond bridge that emulates commands from the fans supplied remote. It supports the light and three fan speeds plus reverse direction

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This is probably the right answer, but also check out Bond Home. I’ve been happy with mine for ceiling fan controls and you can teach it RF commands. The homebridge plugin has been great, too.

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For roomba use homebridge-roomba-stv. For ceiling fans you could buy a bond by olibra bridge and add any remote control fan into Homekit using homebridge-bond.

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Installed two Mina Air fans that include Smart by Bond. They show up in the Bond app but not in Homebridge Information (please complete the following information): Plugin version [email protected] Bond firmware version V2.17.4-1-G29gc8b4 How homebridge is run: Homebridge UI Logs Nothing in the logs show up for either of the fans. [4/20/2021, 4:24:07 PM] Loaded plugin: [email protected] [4/20/2021, 4:24:07 PM] Registering platform 'homebridge-bond.Bond' [4/20/2021, 4:24:07 PM] [Bond] Initializing Bond platform... [4/20/2021, 4:24:07 PM] [Bond] Config: { "bonds": [ "platform": "Bond" …

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I've got Somfy shades and drapes. I experimented a bit to find the best combination for my house. I first tried the Somfy MyLink hub, then the Tahoma, then the Bond bridge, and finally the Bond Pro (when I found it cheaper on eBay.). It's working fine... I'm also using Homebridge, but found this homebridge-blinds plugin worked better for me than the Somfy, myHome or Bond plugins: https://github.com/dxdc/homebridge-blinds

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Hey guys and gals. I’m thinking about buying a bond bridge to use with homebridge into HomeKit. I would be using it for only RF Hunter ceiling fans. I’m curious the kind of luck y’all have had with them? I’m thinking it is a great alternative to replacing entire fans with a HomeKit ones. I already have homebridge running other things on a dedicated Pi 4

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Just installed two Dekor Lighting dimmers which are "Smart by Bond" devices. Followed the instructions, and despite this awesome plugin (Thanks by the way!) discovering the two devices, it reports that the devices have no supported actions. Lights are actually dimmable and support toggling on/off. I would love it if I could support dimming and toggling of the Dekor lights via homebridge using this plugin. Here's a log of what happens upon start up: [10/11/2020, 10:50:17 PM] [Bond] Response (185d46adcf1f4000) [get http://192.168.0.41/v2/devices] - {"1":{"_":"85012d41"},"_":"19bd4b31"} …

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Just installed two Dekor Lighting dimmers which are "Smart by Bond" devices. Followed the instructions, and despite this awesome plugin (Thanks by the way!) discovering the two devices, it reports that the devices have no supported actions. Lights are actually dimmable and support toggling on/off. I would love it if I could support dimming and toggling of the Dekor lights via homebridge using this plugin. Here's a log of what happens upon start up: [10/11/2020, 10:50:17 PM] [Bond] Response (185d46adcf1f4000) [get http://192.168.0.41/v2/devices] - {"1":{"_":"85012d41"},"_":"19bd4b31"} …

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same issue, with debug on. this seems to be an issue with 'deviceid'. i think it should be 'deviceId' (in the code). /30/2020, 2:42:38 PM Bridge is running on port 51826. 10/30/2020, 2:42:38 PM (node:883) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: TypeError: Cannot read property 'bondid' of undefined 10/30/2020, 2:42:38 PM at BondPlatform.getDevices (/home/hoobs/.hoobs/node_modules/homebridge-bond/dist/platform.js:46:65) 10/30/2020, 2:42:38 PM at /home/hoobs/.hoobs/node_modules/homebridge-bond/dist/platform.js:38:26 10/30/2020, 2:42:38 PM at Array.forEach ( ) 10/30/2020, 2:42:38 PM at …

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Looking to run on a Pi. Would only be using 2 plugins, Nest (thermostat) and Bond bridge (ceiling fans). No plans to ever run any video through Homebridge. Is a Pi 4 2 Gb overkill and do I need more than just heatsinks for cooling?

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FWIW, on the Bond Bridge Pro, we support SetPosition for Somfy RTS shades. It works by deadreckoning with a Kalman filter and a little planning algorithm to avoid the pitfalls of the My and Stop signals being the same at the RF level. It works pretty well in practice. For Rollease (and a few others), we use the native SetPosition RF signal. At this time no shades provide RF feedback of position to the Bond Bridge, but that's something we're looking to add to the Bond Bridge Pro (which has better receive capabilities) when the shade supports it natively (Rollease, etc., not Somfy RTS sadly.) …

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