Add Group Support to Bond Integration

Feature Requests
1

Adding group support into the integration, group support is already present in bond_async in python. See here: Bond Integration - Groups unavailable · Issue #143004 · home-assistant/core · GitHub and here: Bond - Group devices and entities are missing · Issue #127367 · home-assistant/core · GitHub

2

A simple workaround that may help is to create the group by pairing at the shade remote control level. The teach bond that channel. I’ve run a bank of roller shades that way for years now. To HA it just appears as another shade. So in my case HA sees left bay, mid bay, right bay, and all bay as 4 devices. All bay runs all the shades together.

3

Wow, I wish I knew about the group channels before I started my workaround yesterday! :joy: :joy: :joy:

For anyone who wants a different, much more complicated, workaround… Here’s what I did:

  • Find your Bond token; you can go into the app and see it under advanced in your bridge

  • Find your Group ID. You can use curl with your token: curl -H “BOND-Token: YOUR_BOND_TOKEN” -i http://YOUR_BOND_IP_ADDRESS/v2/groups

  • Add some secrets in secrets.yaml:

bond_token: YOUR_BOND_TOKEN
bond_kitchen_shades_close_url: http://YOUR_BOND_IP_ADDRESS/v2/groups/YOUR_BOND_GROUP_ID/actions/Close
bond_kitchen_shades_open_url: http://YOUR_BOND_IP_ADDRESS/v2/groups/YOUR_BOND_GROUP_ID/actions/Open
bond_kitchen_shades_set_position_url: http://YOUR_BOND_IP_ADDRESS/v2/groups/YOUR_BOND_GROUP_ID/actions/SetPosition
  • Now edit your configuration.yaml
# These REST commands are the API calls to close, open, and set position
rest_command:
  kitchen_shades_close:
    url: !secret bond_kitchen_shades_close_url
    method: put
    content_type: "application/json"
    payload: "{}"
    headers: 
      BOND-Token: !secret bond_token
  kitchen_shades_open:
    url: !secret bond_kitchen_shades_open_url
    method: put
    content_type: "application/json"
    payload: "{}"
    headers:
      BOND-Token: !secret bond_token
  kitchen_shades_set_position:
    url: !secret bond_kitchen_shades_set_position_url
    method: PUT
    headers:
      BOND-Token: !secret bond_token
      Content-Type: "application/json"
    content_type: "application/json"
    payload: >
      {
        "argument": {{ position }}
      }

# This is a sensor to determine the current position of the shades
sensor:
  - platform: rest
    name: Kitchen Shades Position
    resource: http://BOND_IP_ADDRESS/v2/groups/BOND_GROUP_ID/state
    method: GET
    headers:
      BOND-Token: !secret bond_token
    value_template: "{{ value_json.position }}"
    unit_of_measurement: "%"
    scan_interval: 10   How often to poll (in seconds)

# This is the cover template
cover:
  - platform: template
    covers:
      kitchen_shades:
        friendly_name: "Kitchen Shades"
        open_cover:
          service: rest_command.kitchen_shades_open
        close_cover:
          service: rest_command.kitchen_shades_close
        position_template: >
          {{ 100 - (states('sensor.kitchen_shades_position') | int) }}
        set_cover_position:
          service: rest_command.kitchen_shades_set_position
          data:
            position: "{{ 100 - position }}"

There you go!

4

I’d like to leave a vote/request for adding the Groups from Bond into HA… would be really helpful!

5

Unfortunately for some reason although the blind-group by pairing to the same remote channel to more than one blind works relatively well from the remote, when paired with Bond I’m getting some flaky behavior (its missing one shade or another at all commands…). I’ll try the solution @acandido mentioned a bit later…

Hopeful it will work!!