BOND BRIDGE PRO | Add Wi-Fi to Motorized Shades | Ceiling Fans and Fireplaces| Ethernet port & PoE | Compatible with Alexa, Google Home and App

I would completely recommend this product for home automation. The Bong Bridge Pro filled in the control of my roller blinds and older ceiling fans. Installed on my Unifi 24 POE switch no issues there, POE works. I have 7 Vertilux AC roller blinds and 2 wireless ceiling fans I use Apple HomeKit with Homebridge to get full coverage or get more functions from devices. Setup of the Bond App was quick and easy and programming the Vertilux remote to Bond was simple. In the Bond app you can Open/Close/Stop and have 1 preset. Also a schedule and grouping for the devices. you can activate homekit in the bond app. In Homekit you can also do the groupings and set automations along with your other homekit devices. The only thing I don't like is you only get Open/Close function for commands. No stop or access to the preset, Also tested the bond homebridge pluggin and you get the same functions open/close. THe scheduling works great everytime closing and opening the blinds. Next I plan to get the Fans added to controll speed and light functions. Also plan to add a unit to a neighbors apartment who has somfy blinds and numerous wireless ceiling fans.

I'm totally blind! I got this in hope it would be better than the older unit that didn't have a ethernet port on it. It says it is 50MW stronger as far as a signal. In my testing, I found that this didn't work any better at all. To me, this worked the same as far as my ceiling fans still had issues at getting a signal. Also I found that this unit also worked poorly in a combined 2.4G and 5G network when running off of Wi-Fi. The older unit has the same issue. What I did like is the unit could be wall mounted and the ethernet port and power connection is in the back with an lip that hangs over them if you have a laying on a flat area. This isn't a USB C device. So it is a older device that uses Micro USB to power it. I ended up sending it back being it didn't perform any better than the old Wi-Fi device at all in any shape or form. Also if you have a 433MHZ fan that is sene by this controller! If it isn't one of the fan that they know about! Even if the fan remote has a bimming and brighten button for the fan! You cannot program those buttons. You can only do Light on, off, speed options, timer options, fan on and off. Now if they come out with one that doubles the power output 300MW and USB C PD powered that is ethernet network workable and also has the ability to work in a combined 2.4G/5G Wi-Fi network! I'll probably give it another shot. So for the time being, I'll continue using the old Wi-Fi based one and I had to split my network so that the controller will work correctly. It is still hit and miss on controlling the fan. Some time it work and other times it doesn't do to the low power 100MW. The fan remote always works. In either case the LED light did blink so I know that the controller did get the information from the Bond Home servers.

I really like the feature allowing the shades to be put at a position - like 50% - rather than just open and closed. It is a bit expensive for that feature, and it doesn't work perfectly every time, but most days it is great to use a HomeKit automation to set all shades at half way.

If you are serious about your smart home, have a larger home, a home with thick/dense walls, or more than a handful of devices, just pay extra and get this instead of the regular bond or cheap alternative. I bought the regular bond and it didn’t reach entire house. My next mistake was just buying a second regular one instead of buying the pro model. I struggled with two regular bonds for years with fringe signal or even that one device that constantly needed to be reprogrammed. I finally bought the pro which replaced both and I haven’t looked back. Signal is much better and nothing has just “stopped working for no reason” since the swap.

Rubbish. Won’t control most things I thought it would. Dropped devices it did control after a while. Pathetic range. Very disappointing, especially given how expensive it is.

While everything seems ok, it is no doubt used. You can see the dirt on it. I will set it up and see if everything works, but at this price, it should have been new. While the device showed up used. It is working well with my RTS blinds. So changing my review.

The setup took just minutes to identify the three Somfy outdoor roller shades we have. I set up an automation group easily and easily added these shades to my Smartthings hub. The AI (Artificially Impaired) technology known as Alexa is still struggling to respond properly but that is a Bezos problem, not a Bond Bridge problem. Initially, my experience did not start out well. First off, the power supply did not work so I used the POE instead. The set up seemed easy but the shades were not automating correctly. On a Sunday afternoon, I used the "Chat with Customer Support" option on my Bond Bridge Home application. To my surprise, Julie answered the chat within a minute. She helped diagnose an issue with my initial setup that turned out to be a defective unit. I ordered a new one and the replacement arrived within 24 hours.

I use this for my automated shades and I was pleased with the range it has compared to the Automate bridge it replaced. One thing missing that the Automate had is the battery status for each device. There's no way to check the battery status before the shades dies, which is unfortunate. Worst is the buggy part...if there's a power outage, or rebooting the bridge or a simple firmware update, this bridge disables all of the automated schedules. It requires that you manually disable, then reenable each schedule event. Further, if you try to control too many shades too quickly, the hub shuts down. For the amount paid for this device I would expect it to be flawless.