Bond Home Component - Light + Fan

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No problem at all.

Just to confirm, you do have the “enable dimming” toggle switched to the on position in the Bond App correct? It’s in the following:

Your bond name (office, etc.) → settings (top right of screen) → Advanced settings → Manage Light & Dimmer

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OK I have somewhat of a strange error.

For my ceiling fan light, I have trust tracked state enabled and until recently, things always worked correctly. What I am finding is that when Node Red triggers light.turn_off for this light, it sets the light status to off in the bond app without actually sending the command. If I just go to the entity in Home Assistant and toggle it manually, it sends commands just fine. Any ideas here?

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Hi!

I have Light + Fan and one of those remotes with a dimmer button that you just hold it down and it gets brighter than dimmer and full circle. I’m syncing the light state with another set of lights (not fan related) that also have a dimmer. I’d love to sync their states and brightness levels together. Anyone have any suggestions on how to do this? If I could get the fan light to have a working brightness attribute that would be great. I turned on Fix Tracked State Light in the Bond app and was hoping this would then support brightness but no luck so far (haven’t reinstalled the integration after making that change so wasn’t sure if that was needed). Any suggestions would be most welcomed!

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If I understand correctly, the Bond supports sending RF commands to your light/fan. But then the nature of the RF command is just that – there’s no feedback from your light/fan unit to actually tell Bond that it is on or of and at which % brightness / power level.

Or maybe Bond has improved these days? Maybe the HA integration has improved? If you could somehow get the states into HA, then I’m sure there are ways to sync the brightness to other smart bulbs (or smart light switches).

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What I was hoping is that somehow the Tracked State feature in the Bond API also applied to Brightness as well as light off / on. Or maybe there is a way to mimic tracking the brightness state in HA.

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@MizterB I recognize this is an old post, but wondering if you were planning to get the Bond dimmer support into the HA Integration? I just got a Bond to control my fans which also just have the StartDimmer command, and would be interested in this feature.

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I did not. However, it looks like some changes may have just been introduced to support this.

152

any news with that, same problem over here, can’t do any automatons if HA don’t “understand” when the bond FAN or light is on/off

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I have been racking my brain for weeks trying to figure this out. The only way I can figure is to install a motion detector that would only be triggered by the fan and use it to toggle a helper switch with motion being on and no motion being off. No way that I can imagine for the fan to communicate with the Bond.

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yep, I stopped using the bond
no use for me

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Super old, I know, but I have fanimation fans controlled by bond.
Since we’re using RF, I don’t know state.
In the Bond App, I have Light On, Light Off, Dim Down and Dim Up.
In homeassistant, it shows up as a stateful switch and a slideable dimmer which doesn’t work as SetBrightness is not supported for a stateless but dimmable fan switch.
As a hack, I am calling the api locally (via a rest command) with the below.

  dimmer_increase:
    url: "http://ZZZZZZZZZ.local/v2/devices/d813b9df6a515238/actions/IncreaseBrightness"
    method: PUT
    headers:
        BOND-Token: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
        accept: "application/json, text/html"
    content_type:  'application/json; charset=utf-8'
    payload: '{"argument": {{ level }}}'
  dimmer_decrease:
    url: "http://ZZZZZZZZZ.local/v2/devices/d813b9df6a515238/actions/DecreaseBrightness"
    method: PUT
    headers:
        BOND-Token: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
        accept: "application/json, text/html"
    content_type:  'application/json; charset=utf-8'
    payload: '{"argument": {{ level }}}'

level is 16, for a single lighting step, or a 100 for max brightness or min brightness.

It would be super cool to just have a device with a stateless, on, off, brighness_max, brighness_up, brightness_down, and brightness min buttons! or at a min, stateless, on, off, brighness_up, brightness_down.

any thoughts?

p.s. fanimation has wifi capabilities, but I can find know way of connecting them to HA. Tried IFTTT but it doesn’t trigger on dimmer change. Tried Google Home and SmartThings and it works in the app, but neither of those platforms seem to be able to export a third party device to HA. So I reckon the above, is the best I can do?