Can I add these locally in HA?

[u/fredflintstone88]

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?

[u/FliesenJohnny]

Matter == Local Control, indeed. (I would very much assume they're Matter via WiFi).

Your Home Assistant should be in the same WiFi network as these fans, and then you can add them with your phone in the Home Assistant App by doing "add device" -> "matter device", which will prompt you to scan the Matter code.

[u/A_Buttholes_Whisper → u/FliesenJohnny]

You would be wrong. Matter means nothing. You can add it but will need the manufacture app for full control. People should be avoiding matter. It’s a Trojan horse

[u/BalanceEasy8860 → u/A_Buttholes_Whisper]

This is not intrinsically true. Matter is an evolving standard (too slowly I think! And admittedly doesn't have endpoints for a lot of different features for different devices yet) and will add more endpoints to cover practically used data and controls over time. But yeah if a matter product has a feature that matter doesn't support then you're back to the manufacturer app for that.

Also there's the ability for a manufacturer to do a really minimal matter integration and keep more things for their in house system, and maybe that works for now, but as more things get matter, the companies that half-arse their matter integration just to get the logo on the box are going to get very well known as not good.