I just shot a (likely not very helpful) clip of my set up:
Yes, I think the switches were fully operational/not defective (again, just from lighting up and being able to turn on and off the fans). A few months ago I did contact Hunter Fans and asked to make sure they were AC fans (which they confirmed), however they did tell me that “their fans are not compliant with any smart switches” (which I think they simply said to try and make me purchase newer fans or to purchase something from them, I think it was just sales talk or liability jargon in case something like this happened).
Ah, I see what you mean about the neutrals, but yeah, I had the electrician come and do a survey because having no neutrals was my big fear (and what I had encountered when I was trying to update my 1950s-built grandparent’s house, there were no neutrals and having them installed was quoted at $12,000-$16,000). So I was very cognizant of making sure I had them here. And all the Inovelli Dimmers I had installed yesterday are working well.
So I had the two of the Inovelli White fan switches installed. On the first switch there were two fans on the switch (this is where I was pulling the chain, on one of these). On the second switch it was just one fan. Also, the second fan is a slightly newer model of Hunter fan. However both switches were encountering the same issue and wouldn’t speed up (it would run at its slowest speed but nothing more).
I’m still really hoping to get these working, having the fans made smart (5 fan switches through the house was the ultimate goal) was the primary reason for this 40 switch replacement project (the other being attaching an Inovelli White to an outdoor pathlight switch that’s on/off is located outside. Sadly I think it’s protective clamshell case is also preventing the Thread signal from reaching it).
The dimmer light switches work great and are really cool, I hate that I’m disappointed about the parts of the project I really, really wanted to make smart (the fans and the path lights) are the ones that aren’t working…
Thank you for any help though, I certainly appreciate it.