The latest iOS app changed the Control layout. The fan speed control changed from buttons to a slide. And my three Timer 2H/4H/8H buttons turned into one “Timer” button which is useless!
Please add an option in the settings so that we can choose the layout. (Or at least fix the “Timer” button bug). I prefer the button based one for Fan as it mimics a physical remote.
Thanks.
Hi @king1999
I am the developer responsible for this change.
We have received other requests to bring the old UI back, and I am already working on an option in the Device Settings for the next release, which should be in the next few days/weeks.
If you prefer to run the app’s previous version, you can join our Beta program and download one of the previous builds in TestFlight: Join the Bond Home beta - TestFlight - Apple
The build v2.64.0 (9915) has the screen working just as before.
Thanks.
Thanks. Will wait for the next version. I am new to the Bond Home and trying to add two fans.
One is Hampton Bay Mena which is in the Bond database, so it was straightforward to add.
The other is Hampton Bay Benning at 433.92 Mhz. It is not in the database, so I need to use the fan template and let it learn all the buttons. On the fan side, the template has all the buttons (including 6 speeds and timers), but on the light side, a few buttons are missing, specifically three buttons I am looking for “Increase brightness”, “Decrease brightness”, and “Toggle Light Temperature”. I tried to use the Downlight On and Off buttons to simulate the first two, they learned the signals fine, but don’t show up as buttons in the UI (just one Downright toggle button appears there). Hopefully reverting back to the old UI would fix this. Also it would be much better to add more buttons in the tempalte for light.
Hey @king1999 !
Thanks for the feedback!
I have good news and some less good news.
The way we implemented the next release actually brings back all three missing buttons: Increase Brightness, Decrease Brightness, and Toggle Light Temperature.
Any recorded command that isn’t already pulled into a smart slider will now show up on its own as a button, so your original recordings should just appear after the update, with no need to change any settings.
The bad news: the Downlight On + Downlight Off pair will still collapse into a single toggle button… I’ve already started on a fix that keeps them as two separate buttons in cases like yours, and it should come in the next release, some weeks from now.
In the meantime, if you want them as separate buttons sooner, you can record only the “On” side of each (e.g. “Up Light On” for increase, “Down Light On” for decrease), without recording the matching “Off” — a lone one-way recording renders as its own button.
It’s the On/Off pair that gets merged.
We’re just waiting on App Store review to ship the release.
Thanks again!
That’s great! Can’t wait to try the new release!
In the meantime i am able to add a second device fireplace to simulate the dimmer. Flame up/down = light brighter/dimmer, light toggle= light color temp toggle. It is working fine, but would be nice to use only one device.
That is a good workaround!
Looking forward to hearing from you about the new release (it is already available in the App Store) and if it allows you to have only one device.
The option to disable smart control is in the new version of the iOS app, but the buttons are still missing: Increase Brightness, Decrease Brightness, and Toggle Light Temperature.
The timer issue has been fixed as three timer buttons re-appear. (2/4/8H). That’s good.
One issue, not sure if it is new or has been there for some time, is that my 433.92mhz fan stopped working after a couple days, and had to power recycled the unit to get it to work again. It has been happening a few times in the past weeks. My other fan (using Template RCF217 on 303mhz) doesn’t have this issue and never stopped working. The 433.92mhz fan doesn’t have a template and all buttons were learned.
Hi @king1999
Thanks for the detailed follow-up!
There’s a quick fix for the down-light buttons: turn ON the Disable Smart Controls in the Device Settings. With it enabled, every button you learned shows up individually, including the
separate “Bottom Light On” and “Bottom Light Off”.
In case you are curious, here’s what’s happening: when Smart Controls is on, and you’ve recorded both an On and an Off for the down light, the app intentionally combines that On/Off pair into one toggle (hiding your second button).
Disabling Smart Controls on that fan turns every recording back into its own button, so the two will
appear, and you can use them as your brightness up/down.
On “Toggle Light Temperature”: on this particular fan there isn’t a Light Temp button recorded yet (your other RCF217 fan does have one, which is why it shows there). If your physical remote has that button, add it via Device Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Edit Commands and it’ll appear alongside the others.
And on the 433.92 MHz fan dropping out until you power-cycle the Bridge: that’s unrelated to the UI, and we’re looking into it. If you can note roughly when it next happens, that timing will help us track it down in the logs.
Thanks again for the thorough reports!
I don’t see the “Toggle Light Temperature” at all under Edit Commands. Maybe it is not in the current iOS release?
It is not in the list of recordable commands for Ceiling Fans… Your other fan shows it because it is a template fan, not a raw recording.
We may update the available commands for recordings, but that can take a while
In the meantime, do you think that using another button, like Summer, could do it?
Sure. In fact I have been using other button to simulate what’s missing. The main reason I like to have the “Increase brightness”, “Decrease brightness”, “Toggle Light Temp” built in is that they can be made available in Home Assistant which is what I use most of the time. Using unrelated buttons messed up Home Assistant entities. Not urgent, but hopefully it will be available in the future.