New Release v3.3.15 in Production Plugin Store

[Goose66]

A new version v3.3.15 of the Bond plugin has been uploaded. This version adds enhanced support for shades (see below) and adds the ability to restart the BPUP listener thread and connection to the bridge if it fails for some reason, e.g., network troubles or power loss affecting the Bond bridge but not IoX/PG3. I have no real way to test these changes since I don't have any shades, so before I update all the documentation for this plugin, if a few of you (e.g., @tlightne and @JBalog) can bang on it for a few days and let me know what isn't work, that would be great. I can roll out a patch to fix any issues before updating the Release Notes.

This version adds several commands to basic Shade nodes: Start Opening, Start Closing, Stop (Hold), Toggle Opening, and Preset Opening. The "Stop (Hold)" command stops the shade when in motion from an open or close command. Because most if not all shades have no way to report position back to the bridge, then status generally changes to "Open" when the "Stop (Hold)" command is used. "Toggle Opening" is pretty straight forward. "Preset Opening" opens the shade to a preset level (set by the shade remote) and is referred to in bond as "My" for some shades. These commands may or may not work for different shades, and if one doesn't work, a Warning may show up in your plugin log. On some shades, if the "Stop (Hold)" command is issued when the shade is not in motion, the "Preset" functionality is invoked (the likely case when the remote only has one button to perform both functions). "Start Opening" and "Start Closing" just call open and close, respectively. However, "Start Opening," "Start Closing," and "Stop (Hold)" map to FDUP, FDDOWN, and FDSTOP IoX commands, respectively. So the theory is you can drop a shade into a IoX scene with a Insteon SwitchLinc, and get easy control: tap top of switch to open; tap bottom of switch to close, press and hold top of switch to start opening, release switch to stop opening, etc., all without programming. If anybody can test this, that would be great.

For shades that support positioning, there is a new Shade node that adds a "Set Position" command along with "Increase Opening" and "Decrease Opening" commands that increase or decrease opening by 10%. This node also reports the position as a percentage if not fully "Open" or "Closed."

Several Notes:

1. The Bond Home app and Bond API report position as a percentage of "closed," i.e., 0% is open and 100% is closed. IoX "Barrier Status" UOM reports position as a percentage of "open," i.e., 0% is closed and 100% is open. The conversion is done in the plugin so you should keep this in mind.
2. If you have a shade that supports "Set Position" commands, either because it's native to the shade or you've set the "Course Time" in the Bond Home app for the shade and the Bond Bridge Pro is tracking it's position, then you will need to delete the existing shade nodes and the re-discover nodes from the bridge to get them to load with the right node definition.

Let me know what works and what doesn't.

[tlightne]

@Goose66

Happy to report the stop command works with my Allen & Roth shades. Unfortunately these shade do not report status so I can not test any of that. 

After upgrading to 3.3.15 PG3X still shows the version as 3.2.14. and the blue bar showing an update is available is still present. 

 

[Goose66]

Do you have a Bond Bridge Pro?

[JBalog]

After updating the node server, deleting the nodes and then rediscovering them I can now set position for the shades by percentage.   For me it also does not say the nodes ever is updated.   I have the bond bridge pro. 
 

thanks

Edited 4 hours ago by JBalog

[dwengrovitz]

13 hours ago, tlightne said:

After upgrading to 3.3.15 PG3X still shows the version as 3.2.14. and the blue bar showing an update is available is still present. 

I only use the Bond Bridge to control some deck lights, but after updating I am also seeing the issue of PG3X showing the old version is still installed and an update is available. 

[tlightne]

@Goose66  I have the Bond Bridge BD-1000 not the Bond Pro.. 

[Goose66]

11 hours ago, JBalog said:

For me it also does not say the [plugin’s] updated

2 hours ago, dwengrovitz said:

I am also seeing the issue of PG3X showing the old version is still installed and an update is available. 

I’ll take care of this in the patch. Let’s see what else shakes out this week.

Edited 3 hours ago by Goose66

[Goose66]

1 hour ago, tlightne said:

@Goose66  I have the Bond Bridge BD-1000 not the Bond Pro.. 

The docs suggest it may be a Pro only thing, but you can try deleting and re-discovering your shades to see if they show up as having position support.
 

 

[tlightne]

I am ok with not having position support at this time. I may upgrade to the Bond Pro at some time. I am good with having the stop command. My only concern is PG3 not reporting the correct version of the plugin.

Thank you for all you do here...