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Bond Bridge Pro - Very disappointed, may return (alien.top)
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After a year of waiting and scrolling through forums and such, I finally bought the Bond Bridge Pro to operate and automate my 16 Somfy roller shades. I've been using it for about 2 weeks and I have to say I'm very disappointed in it. I went through the setup and even re-calibrated a few blinds and the Bond app is practically useless. The slider for adjusting the position flat out doesn't work. It never reflects the actual position of the blind. When I use the scheduling feature to reposition my blinds throughout the day, the percentage setting doesn't work either. Setting the position to 75% open results in the blind opening all the way. Sometimes when I position the blind using the slider to close it more, the blind will open all the way, then move down to somewhere near where I wanted it. It's all just really frustrating and I can't believe an expensive product like this can be so bad....especially since I've read many posts where folks who are using it and are very happy with it. About the only good thing I can say about it is that it does have great range. I have it sitting in my 2nd floor living room built-in cabinet connected to Ethernet. It manages to communicate with both the 3rd floor and 1st floor blinds, through lots of concrete and rebar.

So before I return it, is there anything I may be missing? The main issue is that the blinds never move to where I want them to be. Is there another way of calibrating them so the app stays in sync with the actual blind? Would deleting the blinds and resetting the hub be worth it? I am on the latest firmware.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

damn, that sounds frustrating. i'd say just return it and maybe look into a different solution altogether. sucks that it's not living up to the hype.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Man, that sounds frustrating. Have you tried reaching out to their customer support? Sometimes they have some tips or updates that can help with these kinds of issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The main problem is that the Somfy RTS blinds do not report their position back to the remote and there is no "set position" command

How can you blame the Bond for it's inability to report position, when the Somfy doesn't report position?

I understand that it does not work to your desire and satisfaction. But, I feel that this is more to do with Somfy than Bond.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Why did you go with the pro version, which is more overpriced than Apple products, rather than the regular version, which is more overpriced than it should be? Not saying that the regular version won't have this issue, just saying that I think you get more functionality with it.