I changed the values on the device type to 32 & 66 and it does change the indicator on the switch to low, med, and high, but the fan only turns on when its on high. It has to be a problem with the switch not outputting enough power for my fan.
That is not necessarily true. When you added the Leviton controller you didnāt remove the existing wireless receiver that is inside the ceiling fan so the Leviton is limited in what it can do based on how you left your existing receiver set. Your problem sounds like it could be with your existing fan setting. So try this; put the Leviton smart switch on High speed to get the fan running then use the Altura remote control and set the fan speed to HIGH by pressing 3.
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Thanks, I changed the fan to high with the remote and now the fan is on high but it only turns on at 85% or higher. It seems the switch is not controlling the fan speed only turning it off and on. I ordered the GE quite fan control, should get it on Monday and going to see if that works better with this fan. I have these hampton bay altura 68 inch fans in 6 rooms so I need to get them automated.
Interesting. If the GE Smart Fan Controller doesnāt work I am pretty confident we can get your fan running properly if we remove the wireless controller that came installed at the factory if you want to do a little modification. I am really tempted to go buy that fan because I love that look and want to replace the ceiling fan that is 15 years old in my bedroom. If you donāt mind, what is your ceiling height? My ceilings are 8ft high and wondering if would work.
Have there been any updates with controlling the fan speed with Alexa?
On/Off seem to work. I can turn the fan on directly to medium, high or low. However, the problem comes when trying to adjust to medium. It doesnāt seem to recognize that command. I can say āset fan to lowā or āset fan to highā if the fan is already on and it works fine. It is just the adjustment from high/low to the medium setting that doesnāt work.
Any ideas why or how to correct? Thanks.
Tell her to set level. Not low,med,high.
Alexa set living room fan to 50% (med)
Or something like that , I canāt remember if the word level needs to be in there or not.
Yup - everything works fine if you say percentages. I was trying to get the words working - as it is more intuitive for the other family members. Saying the command with ālowā and āhighā work just fine and āmediumā if the fan itself is off; however, it is just the high/low to medium adjustment if the fan is on that doesnāt seem to work.
Is it something with the coding of the device handler?
Sorry, I misunderstood. Iāve never tried to tell her low,med,high. Didnāt even realize you could? Have to test next time Iām home.
Reading your last response has me even more puzzled. Iām going to have to see what mine does.
Hopefully someone will chime in with a good reason why?
GE Fan Control did the same thing, only works on Med and High. One of my 68 fans does not work and I think its the capacitor on the built in reciever. I was reading I can buy a capacitor and bypass the receiver but the wiring diagrams on the instructions I found are a little different.
You can use EchoSistant and use the following command
Low
Medium
High
Turn up
Turn down
Speed up
Slow down
Go faster
Go slower
Set to
Set level
Set
Adjust
Pretty much however you would say itā¦ And if there is any other phrasing, let me know and Iāll put those in too
John, I was trying to use the below link, but appears to be dead, is there another one?
Yep, thatās a really old version. I thought I caught all those. Hereās an updated link:
Thank you, much appreciated.
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Is there an easy way to make this work with Google Home āset the fan to 33%ā is not as cool as āturn the fan on mediumā. I was thinking I could make a few virtual switches and tie into IFTTT for each fan but would get messy and cluttered. Any ideas?
thanks
Any chance this is integrated with Github? I canāt seem to make the connection
Thanks
Rick
That link does work, but you can also get it from github integration:
Owner : constjs
Name : jcdevhandlers
Branch : master
I have the integration setup currently using Owner: constjs
Did you suffer from autocorrect, or should I update my settings?
Yes, stupid autocorrect!
Owner should be constjs.
@ChadCK Hey there. Iām interested in trying out this DTH, but Iām having a bit of trouble with Github integration. After I enter your info, nothing at all comes up when I use Update from Repo for your Github. I might be missing something.
@johnconstantelo I also tried your version of the DTH, but I found that the ST interface always reverted back to High regardless of what setting was selected. I feel like I saw that mentioned in the thread, but I couldnāt find the reference again. Any ideas?
I had this happen recently just on one fan. I manually adjusted the fan at the switch and eventually everything synced back up again. Only noticed it the one time.
Edit: It just occurred to me that Iām using Chadās DTH so this issue may be more an issue of how the Thing (Fan Control) is reporting back to the handler. Or, as these two DTHs are based on each other (I think) I guess itās still possible they have a common bug.
Iām interested in this too. I never got this one to work with any Github integration.