Hello. I have been working on a HA integration and controlling my bond has been great however I just noticed that the state of the fan or fan light does not properly reflect if I use the stock remote for the fan. For example, fan is off, then I use the fan remote to turn it on, the Bond is not triggered that anything changed, so it still displays as off.
I still have Smart Things so I tried there and same. Even in the Bond app itself.
This seems like a glaring flaw. Is this just how it is, or is there something I am missing? I saw an adv option in the app to correct the tracked state but that seemed more like a quick override and not a permanent setting to tell my remote to tell Bond to track the change.
This is the ‘Bond Bridge’ if is matters. Thanks all for the help!
So to keep things in sync, it’s best as if you approach the Bond Bridge as a replacement of your original remote, not a supplement.
The Bond staff have explained that the Bridge cannot send commands while listening, and that most OEM remotes are too weak to be reliably “heard” across a whole home / multiple rooms – all that to say that the Bond Bridge doesn’t “listen” for remote commands other than when adding a device to the Bridge.
There are some solutions you can pursue if, like me, you value physical controls instead of solely apps and voice assistants – but they rely on integrating Bond with their official Local API into a smart home control system, and/or using a Bond Bridge Pro with Bond’s Sidekick remotes.
I, for instance, use ISY controllers and a mix of Insteon / Harmony / Hue emulator / Bond Sidekicks to make physical controls for fans and light kits, as well as other devices Bond controls.
You can use a variety of controllers ( Home Assistant, etc ) to make these kinds of cross devices integrations possible.