I have had the same fan/light off together issue. You have a bad controller. I called Home Depot customer service and they refunded my money and I ordered a new one. Whoever is building these units has horrible quality control.
I just installed this new DTH from rafaelborja. Everything works great in the new smartthings app with no need for virtual switches and automations. Alexa controls the fan and light too. The fan is a dimmer in Alexa but I created routines like âturn the low bedroom fan onâ and the routine sets the fan âdimmerâ to 25%. I had to delete the fan and re-add at first but so far so good. He does a good job explaining everything. https://github.com/rafaelborja/SmartthingsKingOfFansZigbee
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ugh im terrified to delete the old one and try again lol. I just got it working in the old app. But working in the new app would be so much better!
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@Rafael_Borja can you add setting for 3 or 4 speed remotes? There are remotes with 3 speed and 4 speed.
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Will it still work in the classic app?
Hey i know this is an old topic but i just switched to smart things and i wanted to setup my wink ceiling fans. I am not very familiar with code but i am tech savy. Just looking for a little help with this if there is any new integration or better products to use for this.
Unless something new has come out, I believe thereâs only the Hampton Bay, Bond, and Inovelli devices. I have all Hampton Bay and love them. The Bond works, but you canât tell by the app if itâs on or off. I donât know about the Inovelli switch personally, but they do make good stuff. All my early switches are Inovelli and Iâve had no problems with them.
The new DTH does still work in the classic app. If youâre using the classic app though, the original DTH does look better. Breeze does not work with the updated DTH (never really used that anyway) Iâve attached some screenshots of the updated DTH and how it looks in the classic app. Update - dimming the light does not appear to work in the classic app properly.
Few things I am noticing. I bought 3 of these for 3 spare bedrooms I have. The smartthings is downstairs and the bedrooms are upstairs. The range on these are really bad. The one fan that i have directly above the smarthings app occasionally works and other times it does not.
These do not appear to have any kind of repeater functionality built into them. The bedrooms are fairly close together. When I can get the one fan to work the others do not. I plan to buy a GE light switch for my stairs to see if I can get the mesh network working and improve connection reliability.
Light dimmer doesnt do anything at all. Although I do not know if that is something in my fan preventing the dimmer function from working.
The other issue I have is with Alexa integration. This just shows up as a single on/off switch in Alexa
Yes the range is awful.but i have none of the other issues.
The handler from rafaelborja does work better
Light dimming not working I suspect is something to do with my fan. Maybe it has a relay? Iâll tear it apart and check.
I ordered a GE zigbee light switch Iâm hoping that solves the connectivity issues I have had.
Alexa I dont know why it doesnt pick up the light.
Make sure the dipswitch for dimming in the battery compartment of the remote is set for dimming. Also note, these will only dim down to 20%. The 20% is a hardware limitation, not a DTH limitation.
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^^^^^^^ Yep what he said! It was months before i figured that out!
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funny yea I figured it out after pulling my hair for a while and then FINALLY reading the instructions lol. Who would have thought the dimming capability was built into the remote instead of the receiver. Doh!
Now I just need to fix the crappy range. Iâm hoping adding a zigbee switch to the hallway solves that problem. I prefer Zwave to zigbee so these fans are my only zigbee devices.
I got Alexa to work also. The only anoyying thing is if I say Alexa turn on the fan it also turns on the light. If I tell it to turn on the light that works correctly.
In the new DTH there is a setting to âuse dimmer to control fanâ and then just enter 1. When I did that, Alexa can control the light and fan separately. But then you have to use percentages to set the fan speed - like âAlexa set fan to 25%â. I setup three routines in Alexa to set fan speed so âalexa, turn the low bedroom fan onâ sets the fan âdimmerâ to 25% which is low speed. The light dimmer works too in Alexa.
Its set to one in mine. Do you only have 1 fan? Alexa did the correct thing when I only had 1 fan connected in the house. Now I have 4 fans connected.
When I ask Alexa to turn on/off the light. She does everything correctly for each room I am in.
When I ask Alexa turn on/off the fan she states there are multiple devices named fan which one do you want. Each fan has the room its in before the word fan. i.e. master bedroom fan. If Iâm standing in the master bedroom and say turn on the fan it should turn on the master bedroom fan.
So now that I have multiple fans I have to say alexa turn on the master bedroom fan for it to work. But now it also turns on the light with the fan 
I dont think this is an issue with the DTH I think its an issue with Alexa. Itâs be nice if Amazon would get us some more control over what she does.
I had installed the fan/controller in my bedroom, and forgot to include it in my SmartThings. I knew I was getting another for my home office, so I decided to wait.
I installed the office fan (correctly), and then installed this Device Handler.
I then went back to the bedroom fan and did the âdisconnect 3 seconds/connect 3 secondsâ five times while using the old app to search. Discovered, good, went into the IDE and changed the type of device.
BAM! Works in New App. Old app wonât let fan go to 4, but thatâs fine, Iâll use the New app.
So thanks to the creators of this - much appreciated!
Ugh sounds like a pain. Yeah I only have one of these and Iâm glad I didnât buy anymore. Could setting up scenes in Smartthings or routines in Alexa be a workaround?
So i decided to try out rafaelborjaâs DTH from here https://github.com/rafaelborja/SmartthingsKingOfFansZigbee and for the most part it works great in the new SmartThings app. I do notice that when toggling lights on/off or adjusting brightness it takes sometime to update its status in the app but backing out updates it. One thing that has me puzzled is while i was reading his github page, there is mention about "dimmerAsFanControl " which states:
Google Assistant fan Control
If you are using Google assistant you can set option dimmerAsFanControl to true to control fan speed using light dimmer. Google assistant does not properly support fan speed dial, showing it as a light dimmer instead. When this option is activated you can set fan speed with the command in Google Assistant as âSet speed to <0 to 100>â, where:
- 0 to 24 is speed 25 (turn off),
- 24 to 49 is speed 1 (low),
- 50 to 74 is speed 2 (medium),
- 75 to 100 is speed 3 (high),
My question is, where do i find this option to set as true? From his screenshot here https://github.com/rafaelborja/SmartthingsKingOfFansZigbee/blob/master/images/screenshots/set_dimmer_as_fan_control_settings.jpg it seems like the option is thru a app? But i canât seem to find it anywhere?
In the new app, at least on my Android phone, there are three dots at the top right after clicking the fan. Those three dots open a menu. From there, click settings, then enter a 1 to use as dimmer.