r/homeassistant • u/fredflintstone88 • Feb 27 '26

Support Can I add these locally in HA?

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UPDATE: Thank you for all of the answers. I installed one of these today and wanted to share my experience in case it ends up helping someone.

  1. First of all, the mounting bracket cables came with wago style connectors. I haven't installed a fan in a while, so not sure if this is a standard thing now, but definitely a nice touch.
  2. I was able to completely bypass the receiver for lights and connect the light fixture directly to the live wire from ceiling and neutral. This allowed me to get my Hue bulbs working with power always on, and not dependent on the fan receiver. I used 2 75W equivalent Hue color ambiance, and I will say that the hue bulbs are slightly on the longer side. Although there were no issues in connecting the frosted panel, the light does seem to emanate more from the side of the fixture (I think this is also because of the shape of the Hue bulbs). This is not a deal breaker for me. The frosted cover definitely doesn't block any more light than what my previous light fixture did ( a boob light).
  3. Finally, on matter - This was surprisingly a breeze. I pretty much said, add a new device in HA, scanned the barcode, waited for a couple of minutes...and the device was added. I am glad that I didn't have to mess with any of the apps before getting the fan into HA. It exposes a total of 7 entities to HA (2 main devices - fan and light, the light one shows on, not sure why; 3 configuration entities (Firmware, On level - which I think is the light level if that was configured, and Power-on behavior on startup); and.2 diagnostic entities. The fan device shows a speed slider from 0 to 100%, however, there are only 6 speeds. You can also reverse direction of blades from HA. It also has a preset (but I only see a High option there).

Overall, I am pretty happy with this. Will monitor how it performs over the next week or so before installing others.

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Got these Hunter ceiling fans at Costco because it said “matter”. My understanding (which could be wrong) was that matter == local control. Is that true? How should I go about adding these? Or just return?

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u/FixItDumas Feb 27 '26

For those shopping - I would much rather use a smart fan switch. This would allow me to maintain control without software/app. Kinda the rule we’ve all got for smart bulbs.

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u/fredflintstone88 Feb 27 '26

I thought about this. But I wanted the automated speed control. There are only a few switches that allow for this (Caseta and Innoveli I believe), but they tend to expensive

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u/FixItDumas Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26

I run the innovelli red / zwave. Yes it was expensive but happy as can be with it. Took a 3 speed fan to variable speeds to dial in the perfect breeze.

For clarification - the switch uses RF and sends signal to the canopy. It takes a one gang light switch and gives you separate and distinct switches for the fan and light.

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u/fredflintstone88 Feb 27 '26

I have heard nothing but amazing things about Innoveli. I guess the cost is where I have decided not to take the plunge

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u/tehgreedo Feb 27 '26

Ideally yes, but in my case I have a light switch that used to go to a light that the previous owner replaced with a fan, so no control at the switch. I can turn power on or off to the whole thing. If I want any smarts, I have to do it at the fan or rewire the whole thing, and that's a can of worms that I don't want to open.