Superior EF-BRCK Fireplace Remote

@residualimages - you have been incredibly helpful, and I really appreciate your posts on this forum. I’ve found several other posts from you that have been enlightening to say in the least.

Opening a ticket, the Bond representatives were extremely responsive (surprisingly so in fact) - but unfortunately due to this remote being ‘unsupported’ they were only able to direct me to the guides on how to do the commands.

With all of that said, I believe the only solution (at least for my level of ability) is to create multiple custom commands - is this possible? Since the fan speed and flame height commands are sent simultaneously, I’d like to essentially build a list of each combination. Fan high / flame low, fan high / flame medium, fan high / flame high, fan medium / flame low, fan medium / flame medium so on and so on. I was then going to leverage the Bond API with Home Assistant to map all of these out. I was hoping with the Bond API this would be achievable, but via the Bond app it certainly is not.

If that is not possible… I’m not sure how to have the best of both worlds. Perhaps I will just settle on a flame height setting and have a static flame height with adjustable fan speeds - as that seems more important to be able to adjust the fan speed vs the flame height.

Is there another way to get a hold of Bond devs? Their support, while helpful, did not express any interest in getting my request up to the dev department. The answer was basically “if it’s unsupported, you’re on your own”. Which I can respect from a support team, but disappointing that I could not put in a feature request or provide assistance in getting full support. I am not much of a programmer, but I am certainly willing help with testing.

Edit - I just had a thought, perhaps adding multiple fireplaces for my single fireplace will achieve my goal… not pretty, but it may work. Going to attempt that tonight.

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