Comment by OptionOfT

I have a couple of shades with Somfi motors, and got one of those Bond bridges with it, to connect it to Home-Assistant.

Except you cannot add stuff to that bridge without registering the device to your account. The resale value of the device drops to zero once their server dies, as you cannot add it to a new account, or add new devices to it.

The 1 redeeming factor is that you can control the devices that you have set up in an offline manner.

But I'm still on the lookout for a fully-functional ZWave to Somfi bridge.

And articles like this actually show that I was right in returning my ceiling fan that was Home-Depot-Data-Collecting only. Now I have a more expensive, but HomeKit capable Hunter (which is absolute hell to set up).