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Jul 12, 2019
Bond Device (Automate Remote Commands)
1 of 2 found this helpful I only gave this 3 stars out of 5 because there are some small issues that they should have fixed a long time ago and are still an issue.
I hooked this up to a ceiling fan in my kitchen. I have a second fan being delivered today that I will also hook up to it. My fan is a 6 speed fan with an LED light attached. It is completely controlled by a remote, no hanging strings. The remote has a lot of buttons including on and off for the fan and light, dimming buttons for the light, two buttons for changing the direction of the fan blades, timer functions, and buttons to increase or decrease the speed of the fan by one step each. This last part bothered me because I wondered how Bond would change it to the speed I wanted to without problems.
So I followed the directions and started to set up the remote. I don't know why, I choose one of the reverse buttons as the first one to set up. Upon detecting the remote, it asked me which of 2 remotes I was setting up based on this one button. Reading the remote model, I choose the one that matched and the rest of the buttons were set up instantly! This really made it easy for setup as I didn't know how to set up half of them because the buttons were listed as buttons to set up. They added buttons for this which I will showed pictures of from the APP. After that, I attached the Bond APP to the Google Home APP so that I could control the fan with my voice.
Now what I can do is specifically tell Google which speed I want my fan to be on. I can say, speed 6, it will set it to speed 6 which was my main concern. The fan can be turned on and off via voice command as well as the LED light. There is even a chart that allows special commands like setting the fan to hurricane force for the high setting. Commands like low, medium, and high work too.
What doesn't work is the reverse function and the light dimming through google home. Bond's interface doesn't allow me to use voice commands or set up voice commands for the buttons they have. I am stuck with the basic on and off commands or fan speed. When I ask google to reverse the fan, it says that the feature isn't part of my fan even though it is. I can use the Bond APP to reverse with the buttons or dim with the buttons though, but using the app wasn't what I wanted as it was supposed to be completely voice command. After doing research into this, I learned that this was always an issue going on for years that people complained about but Bond hasn't addressed even though they promised to address. People even asked for API access to create their own work around. IFTTT doesn't allow a workaround either.
I am guessing that the reverse feature doesn't work because my remote has a Summer and Winter button instead of one button. As for the dimmer, I have tried a lot of different commands but nothing works (numbers, medium, etc...). The button names were the first options I used but they SmartThings won't link to Bond which would have been a work around if it did, It is another feature the company promised to link but hasn't yet which could have solved a lot of problems.
So I can control the fan speed and turn the fan and lights n and off. I need the APP or remote to change the direction or dim the lights. It isn't ideal but works enough that I won't complain too much. I am not happy with the research I found on future Bond development, because they promised for years they would provide us with features that we need but haven't come out with yet. I wanted a fan I could reverse on command, I didn't get that. The dimming of the lights would have been nice, but I could live without.
If Bond was smart, they would set up their API so google commands would access the button names which could be renamed to the chooser's desired command. I would love to say, "Hey Google, set {Fan Name} to {Winter}!" Allowing custom names would have solved this but Google integration hasn't really been implemented like it could have been.
So in the end, it works enough but not the way it should.
Jul 12, 2019
WiFi Extender Details
2 of 2 found this helpful I admit I was very skeptical of trying this device as it was very cheap, but after setting them up and using them I realized that they work not only as intended but their signal strength is even stronger then the router itself.
I bought 3 of these thinking that is how many it would take to cover my whole house as my router is set up in the far corner of my home. I could have gotten away with maybe just one, 2 for sure would have done the job. I used all three anyways to get outside areas I normally wouldn't need at least until I can think of other ways to utilize them properly.
Setting them up is pretty easy. The method I used is that I directly hooked my computer up to them. Then I set it up as a repeated as it is one of the two options you have to choose from. Once I choose the WIFI I wanted it to repeat, I put in the password and instant access to the router Wifi. Then I unplugged the device and moved it to where I wanted it (as far out as I could place it without having issues of connecting to the router). Once I did, I tested it by trying to play videos on my phone. The videos played extremely fast, no quality issues.
The one thing that they don't tell you in the directions is that if you want to log into these devices once you set them up, you can but not the same way you set them up. You need the IP address they are using on the router and type that in a device connected to either the repeater or the router (doesn't matter which one) to gain access to the repeater. I figured out myself and it helps if you want to make changes without starting from the beginning as putting in the old IP Address won't work once it is setup. Other then lacking this information in the directions, the directions were great. This missing isn't really an issue but knowing it helps you make changes much faster without having to move it ever again.
you can also use a repeater on another repeater. I have this setup at my home where one repeater is in the center of the home and the other 2 are on the other side. Both repeaters connect to the one in the center of the home which connects to the router on the other side. So they work that way too which means you can set up a line of them to extend as far as you like! This will help me later because I have a farm house and intend on putting internet in places beyond the home that have electricity like the barn or chicken coop (to open the chicken coop door by voice with a WiFi device set up to open it),
These devices are small and take up very little space. You can place them behind a sofa or couch on an electric socket so no one would see them if you want it that way or just have it in the open as it sits on the electric socket, not on a table top taking up space. I like this feature personally because I don't need to worry about how I will place them once I determine a location, I was just able to plug them in. Their small size was another reason I was worried they wouldn't work well, but I am glad they proved me wrong and work great!
The other feature they can be set up as which I don't think people will use anymore but it is an option, it can be set up as an access point. If you are using an old PlayStation 2 or a device that doesn't have WiFi, but can use a LAN line access to the internet then this feature is usable. Now at days most devices have WiFi built in before a LAN network card but there are still devices like the PlayStation 2 that can't use WiFi so this is a cheap alternative as an access point generally costs about $100 and these devices are a fraction of the cost. So even though I wouldn't have a need like that, it is a cheap alternative if you need a feature like this.