I’ve managed to avoid HomeAssistant in my home automation as I’m trying to keep this as ‘clean’ and out-of-the-box and maintainable as possible. I’ve replaced most of the switches in my main living areas with white series, using HomeKit only and I’m hooked. I’ve got a couple of Leviton 4-button switches as I couldn’t get something matter/thread for that (and wife wanted something exactly like that).
Just one last thorn in my side: the main fan in our family room: multispeed DC motor with a dimmable light. (Specs ).
So what are my options? (Without going to homeassistant )
Crickets? Not even a completely Rube-Goldberg solution? Or some sarcastic reply?
I’ll bite. If your controller can work with a bond device, that’s a common way to integrate DC fans (with a remote) into Home Assistant. It’s possible your controller can use them too. Otherwise, you’re looking at setting up Home Assistant and exporting that entity to your controller or getting a new fan.
Thanks @rohan . I think you meant HomeKIT in the first sentence. As far as I know (happy to be wrong!) Bond Bridge Pro, specifically for fans, doesn’t integrate with HomeKit.
I was saying that people commonly integrate DC fans with Home Assistant via the Bond Bridge. I do not know if that supports HomeKit, but it would be the first option I would try.
If it does not support HomeKit, you could run a small Home Assistant instance just to connect the Bond Bridge to HomeKit and export the fan that way. I’m not aware of other ways to connect DC fans to HomeKit (but I haven’t done a lot of research).
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