# Home Assistant Bond Lights

**URL:** <https://forum.bondhome.io/t/home-assistant-bond-lights/3877>\
**Category:** Integrations\
**Created:** [April 21, 2023, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.bondhome.io/t/home-assistant-bond-lights/3877 "2023-04-21T14:43:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.bondhome.io/t/home-assistant-bond-lights/3877/2 "2023-04-21T15:30:38Z")

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Welcome, @rovaldes !

Here are some notes for you to consider.

If the original remote didn’t have a discrete ON and separate OFF button, then you’ve got to deal with the POWER TOGGLE ONLY command syndrome.

Bond has an option, called Trust State, which has a pretty big win / success rate _ **if and only if** _ you commit to using Bond, or BOND API integrations, for all control (as in, hide the original remotes and never use them).

I discussed this a little more in depth here:

> [@Discrete light on/off function for MinkaAire Fan?](https://forum.bondhome.io/t/discrete-light-on-off-function-for-minkaaire-fan/3045/2):
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> … the ability to track state inside of the Bond system. What that means in reality is an 85-99% success rate of asking via API or voice assistant, etc a discrete “Light On” or “Light Off” command (for which Bond just sends a ‘toggle light’ command after verifying that the Bond-tracked last known state was the opposite) and getting the expected result – **IF AND ONLY IF** the original RF OEM remote is no longer used.  
> You have to commit to only using Bond app and any API-driven integrations ONLY to get any benefit out of the “trust state” feature.
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> [How it works for me?](https://forum.bondhome.io/t/looking-at-the-universal-remote-from-home-depot/2096/6)  
> I use an ISY home automation controller to handle all my Bond devices whenever I am not using the Bond app. I enable trust state tracking in Bond for each device with a toggle.
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> Through that ISY, I can then send Light On and Light Off commands with a single tap on the Light On button or Light Off button of a in-wall or remote keypad (Insteon based in my case, although I even have a Harmony hack to allow home control buttons on those remotes to function) - a double tap on the respective Light On/Off will patch the state belief of the Bond’s tracking and then send the corresponding command to Bond again.
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> The double tap to PATCH Bond’s state belief is what saves me in the ~1-15% failure rate of something being delayed and therefore not actually turned On or Off as expected, or some guest finding the OEM remotes which I hide in drawers, or something else.

And there’s also this thread:  
[Track state changes when using remote](https://forum.bondhome.io/t/track-state-changes-when-using-remote/3787)

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