# Help with altering reps

**URL:** <https://forum.bondhome.io/t/help-with-altering-reps/3768>\
**Category:** Shades & Blinds\
**Created:** [January 31, 2023, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.bondhome.io/t/help-with-altering-reps/3768 "2023-01-31T14:07:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![simonmason](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.bondhome.io/simonmason/32/505_2.png) [@simonmason](https://forum.bondhome.io/u/simonmason)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.bondhome.io/t/help-with-altering-reps/3768/1 "2023-01-31T14:07:25Z")

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I recently added a second Bond hub to improve coverage in my house. The old one could not get to two fans at opposite ends of the house no matter where I put it.

I placed the second hub closer to a group of rollerhouse blinds that I have installed on the old hub. The old hub is running v2.29.7-beta. I changed the reps for the commands to 5 on this version and have never upgraded as it worked almost all of the time.

On the new hub I am running the latest version of the firmware - v3.8.4. I added the blinds. Performance was about 1 in 10 times. So I went through the process of changing the reps on this hub and either I did something wrong or the process is different now as I broke the commands. I get the error message "There was a problem communicating with the device. Please, try again later.

Here is the command I am sending:

curl -H “BOND-Token: b18cacf8b742ca7d” -i [http://192.168.2.220/v2/devices/HUBCODE/commands/b9a6a564e7e80c3a/signal](http://192.168.2.220/v2/devices/HUBCODE/commands/b9a6a564e7e80c3a/signal) -X PATCH -d “{"reps": 5}”

And I get back:

{“freq”:0,“bps”:0,“deviation”:0,“reps”:5,“modulation”:“OOK”,“encoding”:“cq”,“data”:“”,“\_”:“6e01e9dd”,“\_\_”:“6e01e9dd”}

Which looks like it worked.

So I tried resetting it to reps:1 but the command still didn’t work. So obviously I broke something. Thanks for the help.

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**Author:** ![simonmason](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.bondhome.io/simonmason/32/505_2.png) [@simonmason](https://forum.bondhome.io/u/simonmason)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 4:39pm UTC](https://forum.bondhome.io/t/help-with-altering-reps/3768/2 "2023-02-18T16:39:00Z")

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Bump on this - Am I posting in the wrong place?

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**Author:** ![residualimages](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.bondhome.io/residualimages/32/74_2.png) [@residualimages](https://forum.bondhome.io/u/residualimages)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2023, 1:00pm UTC](https://forum.bondhome.io/t/help-with-altering-reps/3768/3 "2023-02-19T13:00:09Z")

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When you get the

> [@simonmason](#):
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> error message "There was a problem communicating with the device. Please, try again later.

I assume that means when you try to tap the command in the BOND app, and/or use a voice assistant command?  
(Since your original PATCH command seemed to have been accepted, as you got back the full “signal” node with its ‘reps’ set to the 5 you intended).

For your first hub which works with these blinds, what is the output of the “signal” node with a cURL GET command (no -X PATCH, no -d {“reps”:5} in the command)?

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**Author:** ![simonmason](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.bondhome.io/simonmason/32/505_2.png) [@simonmason](https://forum.bondhome.io/u/simonmason)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 12:15pm UTC](https://forum.bondhome.io/t/help-with-altering-reps/3768/4 "2023-02-22T12:15:42Z")

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Thanks for the reply. I ended up deleting all of the shades and re-learning them. This time it matched them to a Dooya shade and so far the performance has been good. I also moved the hub right next to the windows, which may have had something to do with it.