I’m new to SmartThings and this community. I have found some previous discussion of how to best control a ceiling fan through smart switches, but I have a variation on that question that complicates the picture more than I can sort out on my own. I would appreciate advice.
I have an old-style ceiling fan with a pull chain to change the lighting options (off, two lights on, or four lights on), and a second pull chain to control the fan (off, or one of three on speeds). Currently we have a single dumb switch that simply controls power to the whole fixture.
I would like to rework my setup so that I can do the following:
- Turn on and change the fan speed from a wall switch
- Use Hue lights in the four-bulb fixture and control them through a separate controller (probably a Hue Smart Dimmer switch).
I have seen devices that can be installed in the ceiling fixture that allow you to wirelessly control the fan and the lights from a remote, but the ones I have seen don’t integrate into SmartThings. I would like to integrate both the lights and the fan into SmartThings, but I would also like them to be controllable through wall-mounted switches.
Advice? TIA.