Ceilingfan

[Dolf]

Hi,

I am looking to buy a ceiling fan (with different speeds).
But offcourse i like to control it from domoticz.
Can be zwave or 433 rfxcom controlled.

Would be nice of you can set it on/off and the speed an can read the current status.

Anyone has one ? or anyone know where to buy one ?
I prefer one that comes out of the box with as little hassle as possible

I was searching the forum, but i couldn't find any projects.

(i live in the Netherlands btw)

Dolf

[Derik]

Buy a cheap dimmer device....
Zwave or 433Mhz.. build this in the fan...

[b_weijenberg]

Lucci air fans are supported by the RFXCOM
for example
http://www.ventilatorwereld.nl/nl/plafo ... and=875866
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_no ... =lucci+air

[Dolf]

Hi, thanks a lot !

I will take a look at the lucci air fans.
Do you or anyone else have on of these working in domoticz ?

[leecollings]

Do these fans have RF built into them?

So how would they be wired up, just have a live mains feed into them?

[b_weijenberg]

Yes, the fans are RF and controlled by the RFXtrx433E

[cyberclwn]

Hey,

Since last weekend i control my (semi-cheap) Westinghouse ceilingfan with Domoticz.
For this i use the optional InfraRed remote from Westinghouse and an InfraRed LED connected to my Raspberry Pi.

It requires some hassle, but i found it not that hard.

[Heisenberg]

Buy a cheap dimmer device....
Zwave or 433Mhz.. build this in the fan...

Can you explain in detail how to do this?
What if the fan is controlled by infrared. How can you use the dimmer to turn on?

[R0yk3]

Hey,

Since last weekend i control my (semi-cheap) Westinghouse ceilingfan with Domoticz.
For this i use the optional InfraRed remote from Westinghouse and an InfraRed LED connected to my Raspberry Pi.

It requires some hassle, but i found it not that hard.

You got my attention! Can you make a tutorial for this, or give me some direction.

Do these fans have RF built into them?

So how would they be wired up, just have a live mains feed into them?

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[manguty]

Hi, you can control the fan with Broadlink RF as you can simiulate the remote with domoticz by using http commands. Its easy to find how to get it with google. Broadlink and RMbridge

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[cyberclwn]

Hey,

Since last weekend i control my (semi-cheap) Westinghouse ceilingfan with Domoticz.
For this i use the optional InfraRed remote from Westinghouse and an InfraRed LED connected to my Raspberry Pi.

It requires some hassle, but i found it not that hard.

You got my attention! Can you make a tutorial for this, or give me some direction.

I'll try to make one but i'm kinda busy at the moment, so it might take some time.

In short:
Used (extra)hardware:
- KY-005 InfraRed LED
- KY-022 InfraRed Receiver (to learn/record IR-codes)

Connect both to your Raspberry PI and install "lirc" (required software) using another tutorial, see google for that. (I don't remember which one i used, i'll try later to find it)

Record you IR-codes with the receiver and the original remote, using other tutorial/google (command "irrecord")
You see the LED on the KY-022 blink red when it is receving, meaning it works.
Create a lircd.conf from the recorded codes, for the sender.

Try sending the ir-code with irsend (again, enough tutorials for that).
If that works, create a dummy device and put in the on-action a script that contains the irsend command to turn on, and an off script for off.
(remember script:// needs probable 3x / script:// /home/pi/domoticz....)

I created a multi-state device, since my fan has 3 speeds (and off). So the off/level0 send the off ir-command, level 10 = speed 1 ... and so on.

ps. i'll try add link for tutorials later, but google was helpfull to me.

[Thijsvr]

I'm more of the "why make it harder than it needs to be" kind of guy. I don't have ceiling fan, but do have a regular fan. Some 15 euro kind of thing. I have it plugged into a RF switch (cheap) and use my remote to switch it because if I'm on the couch I'm not really looking to stand up to turn it on manually. Once I was bored and fiddled around a bit and I hooked it up to my Z-Wave multisensor and set it so that if the temperature went above a certain threshold it would turn on the fan. Once the temperature went below another threshold it would turn of again. Worked fine, though I turned it off again as it's seldom warm enough in the Netherlands to justify having it automated.
RF isn't that reliable, but for something as dumb as a 15 euro fan I don't really care. I have more switches than I know what to do with at the moment and they're very cheap. I got a deal and bought 10 for 40 euros or something.

This is really not a smart way of going about all of this, but it's easy and it works fine for 90% of the situations.

[cyberclwn]

it works fine for 90% of the situations.

But a ceiling-fan has more options then a "15 euro kind of thing"/regular desk fan.
That's why a simple switch, or KaKu/CoCo device, isn't good for this job.

Good for you if you can control your "15 euro kind of thing" with a cheap switch.
But if you want more, as Dolf asks in his post, then you need another solution.

[Goldwing1973]

I'm going to try to exchange the Westinghouse receiver in the ceiling fan with a Fibaro 2x1.5KV z-wave switch.

EDIT:
I was hoping that the ceiling fan would have different wires for the different speeds, apparently it doesn't, so the 2x1.5Kv idea went out of the window.
So, i thought, I'll use a FGB211 dimmer, but that doesn't work right, the fan motor starts to make a very annoying buzzing sound, and from what I've been reading it's also bad for the motor.

I'm now looking at a Westinghouse RF controller, but i don't know if it's supported by RFXcom.
If it is, i should be able to add it and control it with Domoticz
So, i mailed the RFXcom support... and am waiting for the answer.