How to Integrate Bond Home with Smart Home Systems?

[Icarus]

I can only speak from my personal experience using a system called Loxone -

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The main positive quality this system offers is its ease of programming using a graphical programming environment. There’s relatively easy integration with Bond Home and support links on how to do it here -

Loxone Integration

I am an integrator that has turned on to Loxone as the automation system of choice.The system is able to communicate very easily with a number of brands and devices via what they call virtual outputs. I could control via a secondary system, however, I would really like to remove as many moving parts as possible. Could anyone help shed some light on this? Here is the documentation on the Loxone virtual outputs.

The main negative quality of the system is cost. The entry point is about € 393.00 for a wireless solution (Miniserver Go).

Other options for the main ‘brain’ of the platform are the Miniserver Compact and the Miniserver. Those more expensive Miniservers offer increasing numbers of wired input and output possibilities.

Miniservers | For Home & Building Automation - Loxone Webshop

Outside of the Loxone ecosystem, I’m aware of very good support for the free Home Assistant platform. It’s a very powerful and mature platform. I don’t believe it’s as well integrated as Loxone on the hardware side. You’d have to build-your-own relay boards and other input and output options to bolt onto the typical Raspberry Pi ‘brain’ component.