Your last 2 bedrooms don’t make sense. If the old switch turned the fan on and there was a neutral in the box then the new one should have worked too.
There is no layout that I know of where an AC fan motor and light are wired in series! The canopy module is intended for a single wire from the switch to a single ceiling fan/light, and probably won’t do much good if there are other lights wired to that switch because they would always be powered on.
The wall switch is configured in smart fan mode when using the canopy module, which keeps the load (canopy module) constantly powered. The canopy module has separate wires coming out of it for the fan and light, and both are switched by automations in your home automation system du jour or via bindings using RF directly from the switch to the canopy module.
Z-Wave (Red Series) and Zigbee (Blue Series) bindings between their respective switches/canopy modules reportedly work great, but Matter bindings (White Series) are still a work in progress so be prepared to use automations for a while until the Matter protocol and implementations catch up with the others…
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He tried them last after he successfully got the two traditional fans (1 fan connected to 1 switch) working. I think they have (even before attempting to swap to the smart switch) some issues that were not obvious to me. They rotate much slower than the other fans in the house (probably because they are wired in series with lights).
Yeah, it was something my parents had a local guy rig up so they didn’t have to cut into the sheetrock when they added the ceiling fans decades after the house was built. Originally it was a toggle on/off switch that turned on two recessed ceiling lights. The electrician stuck a ceiling fan between the recessed lights and then that switch would turn on the lights and the fan. I couldn’t have the fan running at night (since the lights would be on), so I just unscrewed the light bulbs and kept the fan (on the on/off toggle switch). When we tried the Inovelli fan switch today on it, the switch LED lit up, but the fan didn’t turn. I didn’t bother to screw back in the bulbs to see if it was powering them. I was ignorant that the load capacities handled by dumb and smart switches are pretty different.
Overall it’s been challenging but I’ve managed to get a lot of what I wanted. Now I just have all these left over switches that weren’t used since my three-ways didn’t all have the needed hots (only travelers).
Thank you all for your help!
That’s not in series. Otherwise the fan wouldn’t work unless there were bulbs in the sockets. It’s wired like the other fans except there are light sockets in parallel with the fan. No bulbs in the sockets should make it the same as the other fans.
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