BOND | Add Wifi to Ceiling Fan, Fireplace or Motorized shades | Works with Alexa, Google Home | Remote Control with App | Works with iPhone or Android

I bought a "non-ALEXA ready" fan with remote from Home Depot. The fan's fine, (spectacularly quiet FWTW) but I should have done more research. Home Depot also now sells ALEXA ready fans thru their "HUBSPACE" app. I already have some HUBSPACE devices, so that would have been ideal. But, I digress.Anyway, the "BOND device." Works perfectly, but buy the right ceiling fan model! The Bond device only emulates what the fan remote provides. I'll explain more about what I mean or maybe what happened to me.The important part is that the fan's remote have a "SEPARATE" on button and separate off button for both the fan AND the light. "Why," you might ask. Well, it's to avoid that problem I ran in to. Most remotes (on fans that are not ALEXA ready or ALEXA aware) "are not" going to come from the manufacturer setup this way. It's easier / cheaper for the manufacturer to use the "TOGGLE SYSTEM" on a single button to to turn on the fan and fan light on the hand remote. Press the button on the remote once, fan or light comes on. Press it again and the light or fan goes off. All fine and good until you join ALEXA and then "group" that or both devices. In my case, I grouped both the fan and the fan light in the DEN group. I issue the ALEXA command, "ALEXA, turn on the DEN GROUP." All fine and good. Lights at the wall sconces, end tables, special lighting, ceiling fan light, and ceiling fan come on as expected. "very cool! :) "(now the problem for us and you may experience it as well)OK, some time later. the ceiling fan light or the fan motor itself (or both) on the "dumb fan" is bothering you while you're laying on the couch watching TV for instance. So, you tell ALEXA to turn off the fan. fan light, or even both. ALEXA does that perfectly. Now the problem, albeit, not a big one, but never the less, an issue. Let's say you're now done with the visit to the DEN. Now you tell ALEXA to turn off the DEN group. Well, neither ALEXA or the BOND device was updated or given any update feedback" from the fan or fan light of it's "state." (it's on/off condition) Well. ALEXA again issues the group "off" signal to all devices. But now, one or both of the devices you previously turned off, now turns on as you want to leave the DEN, because those devices are on "TOGGLES" because of the single power button for both devices on the ceiling fan remote control.I hope that makes sense. The "dumb fan or light" has no way of providing a signal to either ALEXA or the BOND device, that the device (fan, light, or both) had changed "state" after having been previously sent its initial "group on signal." Alexa dutifully sends a group off signal, but the BOND device can only send a toggle again, emulating only the single button for each of the two ceiling devices that the remote has been built with.Solutions:1 - Well, you could leave them out of the DEN group. ( DEN group in my example) Then control both fan devices separately with ALEXA. But since I think it's cool to have everything come on when I turn on the DEN group, I'll either turn back on the fan device I previously turned off, or simply tell ALEXA to turn them off separately after ALEXA turns off the DEN group.2- leave them on and never turn them off after telling ALEXA to turn on the DEN group. (then the next "toggle" sent by the BOND device to both devices will properly turn them off)I hope this was helpful. Sorry for the length. But, I like that the BOND device is available. Just trying to help someone understand, the "weird action" in this case, is neither the fault of ALEXA or the BOND device. They are both operating "as designed," even if it's not quite "as expected." :)

Pairing to one of my remotes was a breeze, but pairing to another was a little tricky. Support through chat was a little long to connect with but once connected they were very helpful. One thing you should be aware of that Bond needs to improve on is integration of Groups with Alexa. You can integrate each individual shade to work with Alexa, but if you want all of the shades to go up or down in your Family room group at the same time, you can't do that with Alexa. The other thing is, you have two choices with Alexa. Fully UP, or fully DOWN. You cannot stop the shade midway if you want to. You can do that on the app on your phone though in spite of the Alex limitations I would recommend this purchase.

I've had this for over a year now and it has definitely added great connectivity, via the Bond app, to our ceiling fans and lamps. Basically anything I had with an RF (radio frequency) remote was able to be controlled by this bridge. Programing remotes can be tedious as you have to hold the remote very close to the bridge (within an inch or two) during this process. Each function must be separately programmed too. I did have to perform multiple programing attempts to find the optimal frequency. For example, the first time I paired a lamp, the bond bridge would pick 333.14 MHz. When testing the functions, it might not, for example, toggle the light reliably. On a second pairing, the bridge would pick 333.23 MHz. Then, the functions would be very reliable. What I found, during research of forums, is that the device remote (for your fan or lamp) needs to have fresh batteries and that you really need to hold the remote extremely close to the bond bridge during the programing process. Above frequencies are just examples, the point is that if you find that the first pairing is successful, test that function and make sure it works every single time you press the button in the app before program remaining functions. Once I figured out the quirks of the programing process, adding the rest of my fans and lamps was easy. I would often only need one programing attempt per remote. Once paired the bond bridge has amazing range. I live in a two story house and my bridge is setup on the first floor in one corner of the floorplan. It is able to send its signals through multiple walls and reliably control fans and lights on the opposite corner of the house on the second floor. I have seven fans and three lamps. Via the app, the bond bridge controls them flawlessly.Unfortunately for me, I was never able to add our electric fireplace remote. This is an IR (infrared) device. I tried multiple programing attempts over the past year, used fresh batteries. I pointed the remote at various spots on the bridge at various distances during pairing. No luck. What this means is that some devices simply can't be added. I had no other IR remotes to test, this difficulty may be due to my specific fireplace.Also unfortunate is the trouble I had adding Bond Bridge to Google home. I was only able to add to google a month ago. Initially the functions worked via Google (example: Hey Google turn off living room fan). Recently these have stopped working. Maybe the smart home integration works better on Alexa or Smart Things.Overall I recommend this to anyone who wants to add wifi connection to remote controlled fans and lights.