The result of a strategic alliance between Bond Bridge and Josh.ai, home technology professionals can now marry the two in their client’s Control4 environments. The pairing provides Josh.ai’s natural voice control of motorized window shades, ceiling fans, and fireplaces that are managed by the Bond Bridge RF-to-Wi-Fi home control platform.
The Bond Bridge RF-to-Wi-Fi hub along with the Bond Home Smartphone/Tablet App consolidate control of Somfy and Rollease shades and most ceiling fans. No installation or wiring is required, and multiples can be used for larger jobs. Bond brings the added benefits of programming capabilities, and now full-featured voice automation in Control4 projects courtesy of Josh.ai.
The basic Bond Bridge ($99) can manage 30 appliances in a 2500-sq.-ft. home. The step-up Bond Bridge Pro ($379) can manage fifty in a 3500-sq.-ft. home — bringing unified control to larger projects and covering the entire home. Bond Bridge Pro also incorporates an Ethernet port with PoE technology, which makes for easy integration with Control4.
Once Bond Bridge Pro is integrated with Control4 and Josh.ai, clients are empowered to use Josh.ai’s simple and private voice control throughout their living spaces. Every family member can continue personalizing their experience by adding aliases to favorite devices and creating custom scenes in the Josh app. Josh.ai’s proprietary natural language processing offers features like making multiple requests in a single command, contextually adjusting surroundings, and remembering the last device that was spoken to. For example: “Ok Josh, raise the west blackouts, lower the first-floor solar sheers, and set the fan speed to high.”
Steps to add Bond Bridge to Control4 and Josh.ai Systems
1.Add devices to Bond Bridge using the Bond Home application. Directions to do so with Somfy shades can be found at https://olibra.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360032551371–Bond-Bridge-Add-Somfy-shades-using-the-Bond-Home-application
A programming video is also available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaHomyy0ECY
2. Integrate Bond Bridge with its Control4 Driver, which is accessible via Chowmain at https://chowmain.software/drivers/control4-bond
3. Access the Bond Home Driver Installation and Usage Guide at https://chowcdn1.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/documentation/CONTROL4-Bond/Chowmain_-_Bond_Home_Installation_Guide.pdf
4. Once Bond is integrated with Control4, add the Josh.ai Driver to Composer. Access the Josh.ai Control4 Driver at https://www.josh.ai/control4-driver.
For more information, visit www.bondhome.io and www.josh.ai.
