What solution would you recommend if I have just a single wire/switch for the fan & light?
When you say “single wire”, do you mean a 2 conductor (plus possibly a ground) wire like Romex or fabric covered wire? Or do you literally mean a single wire, like in knob and tube wiring?
Yes, sorry, 2 conductor (hot, neutral, ground) so my switch is controlling the light & fan at the same time.
I would pair a canopy module with an On/Off switch (or Dimmer). If you use Zigbee (i.e. Blue), you can bind the switch to the canopy so that the switch can control both the fan and the light. I don’t know the binding capabilities of the whites, so I can’t comment on those.
Both the switch and the canopy are simply wired with a hot and neutral, so a 2-conductor wire between the switch box and the fan box will work just fine.
Thank you, that makes sense. There was a discussion going around z-wave solutions which is what I was looking into as I already have some z-wave devices going.
There is unfortunately no zwave solution available today that can do this.