Broadlink RF

[pilone]

Hello there, someone knows hot to integrate broadlink in Smartthings? I’ve some ceiling fan that work with rf signal. Thank you

[HalD (Hal)]

[ST Edge] Bond Bridge LAN [BETA]

Thank you to the team that participated in Alpha testing while the driver was being developed. After a few weeks of stable use, the driver is now rolling to beta with the following feature set: Bond Bridge, Bond Bridge Pro, and Smart By Bond (SBB) Devices Ceiling fans including multiple speeds, lights, dual lights, dimmable lights Fireplaces with flame level control, integrated fan and lights Shades and awnings with position control Lights with both switched and brightness controls Bidets Generic IR and RF remotes compatible with Bond Configurable dashboard layout for devices with multiple components (e.g. Fan/Light Combos) Control of the ring brightness of the bridge itself for use in scenes This will be an open beta, as the driver is not expected to need many updates. Any updates will…

[Olli-Pekka_Kurppa]

You can use IFTTT to connect ST with Broadlink.

[Babar_Khan (Dr Babar Khan)]

How to do that? Can we link Broadlink IRs like RM3 Mini with Bond app or what?
Thanks

[HalD (Hal)]

I don’t have one but my understanding is that the Bond device (https://bondhome.io/) can be used to control many RF devices.

An alternative way to control a Broadlink device using Alexa as an intermediary is described here:

Integrate Broadlink Mini to SmartThings app?

I came across this thread as I wanted to implement a similar scenario. Broadlink cannot be added to ST (at least ST returns a “No device found” when searching for Broadlink or IHG). I had that device already integrated in Alexa, so here is what I ended up doing: create a virtual momentary button in Smart things (see below) create a routine in Alexa to “press” the power button thru the Broadlink device With this in place, I can “connect” the virtual momentary button to any scenario in ST Link to the “how to” add a virtual switch in ST: [ST Edge] Virtual Things Edge Driver HTH

[RJGill84 (Bob)]

Broadlink is a competitor product similar to Bond. It controls IR devices added to it, like fans and such. The Bond and Bridge driver will be useless for this.

[pilone]

I didn’t know bond. Does it integrate natively into Smartthings or does it need drivers? to control rf ceiling fans which device do I need? Thank you very much.

[JDRoberts]

@Babar_Khan

How to do that? Can we link Broadlink IRs like RM3 Mini with Bond app or what?
Thanks

The bond app is irrelevant to Broadlink. As others have said, they are two competing devices in the same device class (IR blasters) so forget anything said about bond. You would use a bond IR blaster or you would use a Broadlink IR blaster, but not both.

They also both can handle some other protocols which are common to remotes, but it’s the same thing: you would use one or the other. Not both. and you would not use one to try to control the other.

Back to Broadlink…

Their Ifttt channel is OK, but it’s all event driven. You could have a trigger of “if the temperature is higher than X” but you have to create one applet for each temperature you want to check. That’s obviously for a temperature sensor.

It’s much more intuitive for on/off switches:

BroadLink's triggers, queries, and actions

The integration is OK once you get it set up.

You could use Alexa routines if you want to control a device via broadlink from a smartthings trigger. But you can’t really use it going the other way.

At our house we use Alexa to tell Broadlink to open and close our automatic door opener. It works quite well, but it’s not fast. There’s probably a two second delay between voice command and door starting to open.

[Babar_Khan (Dr Babar Khan)]

Thanks for such a detailed reply. I am already using IFTTT linked virtual devices and audio commands through Google Home. It was that someone above quoted Bond so I thought I may have missed something.
Thanks again