This should be interesting to any community member with a Smart by Bond device with serial starting KV, we have a new feature in this beta firmware. Otherwise, this is a maintenance release with details below.
This is about a Smart by Bond beta firmware. Bond Bridge v2.9.1-beta firmware will be available next week.
The BETA apps are currently available at the following links:
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Android (needs VPN inside Mainland China): https://betas.to/VWCf67zd
The BETA firmware is available via Over-the-Air upgrade to your fan when you are using the BETA app.
v2.9
PLANNED TO BE RELEASED WED 2 OCT 2019.
Date : Mon Sep 23 13:08:44 EDT 2019
Changes since v2.7.2
New Features
- support multiple learned addresses (in breck-volunteer and -quandry only) (#621)
- The following ONLY effects products with serial numbers starting in
KV - These products have remote controls without any DIP switches.
- The remote controls have random addresses assigned at the factory.
- This left the user without a way to set up multiple remotes on a single fan.
- The typical use-case is a “3-way switch” where you put a remote on the wall at each entrance to a room.
- The user can now learn up to 5 remotes to one fan.
- After learning the 6th remote, the first learned remote will be forgotten.
- To intentionally remove a remote which was accidentally learned, the user can learn the same remote 5 times. Then only that remote will remain.
- A future app update will allow visual management of learned remotes.
- The following ONLY effects products with serial numbers starting in
Bug Fixes
- preserve SBB learned remote at factory reset (#617)
- Previously, SBB would forget the learned remote after a factory (or rescue) reset.
- This was very confusing, especially because the app (currently) defaults to factory reset upon removing a device from the Bond account.
- Now any learned remotes are preserved even through a factory reset.
- Rescue reset still causes all learned remotes to be forgotten. Users are not guided to perform this, so the risk is low.
- updated WiFi driver (ESP-IDF v3.3 LTS) (#600)
- This should fix any lingering issues with mesh access points, including Google Wifi
- This likely fixes the “Bond Config AP cannot be joined” issue.
- fix bug where direction was not remembered after power cycle or reboot (#599)
- fix crash when no WiFi APs visible (#583)
- It is unlikely that this impacted any users.
- fix issue where unit would think it lost its WiFi/server connection (#579)
- This issue caused the Config AP to appear when it should not.
- This issue also may have caused devices to become unaccessible for up to 10 minutes after a temporary loss of network connectivity.
- Connectivity should be improved now, especially for situations with a weak WiFi signal
API
- sys/version: add bondid field (#589)
- debug/remoterx: enable on all SBB targets
- debug/syslog: add global debug level API (#568)
v2.7.2
Date : Thu Jul 25 09:07:34 EDT 2019
This version was not released for fans with serial numbers starting in KS . The changes have been rolled into the v2.9 update.
Changes since v2.6.7.4
- smoother light dimming when using factory remote
- WebGUI now supports static IP & DNS settings
- improvements to Local API
- many bugfixes and performance improvements