ZigBee Fan Switch | Project Zephyr (Blue Series)

Yes, we just confirmed this yesterday and are trying to figure out what the course of action is. Manufacturer’s aren’t just supposed to change the bill of materials without letting us know.

What they told us is that they swapped out the LED’s with better ones (at first I thought this was just them saying it, but upon testing, it’s actually a much better LED when comparing certain colors against each other) and also they are much more efficient from a heat perspective.

That said, they still need to tell us when they do things like this as it leads to issues like this.

The net of it is that the latest batch of Red 2-1’s, Blue 2-1’s and Fan switches all have the same LED’s in it – the original couple of batches of Blue 2-1’s have the different LED’s in them that don’t match the new batch.

What the manufacturer has offered to do is figure out if a firmware change can be accomplished or look for ways to tweak the settings (via intensity or color values) to get them as close as possible.

Yeah, this is the most noticeable one. At first, when I was alerted to the color change, I saw the blue and went, “yeah, ok, that does look different, but I’m sure it can be solved via tweaking a few things”, but then I changed it to white and dang… I must say the new white looks awesome though.

Yeah, this was brought to my attention too and I confirmed with the manufacturer that they did not change the diffuser, but it is weird that at certain angles you can see the LED’s.

I agree with this enhancement, really good idea!

We hadn’t even considered this to be honest. All the fan controls I’ve ever played with have had the hold to change speeds, so it never crossed my mind to include something like this.

But, you guys definitely aren’t the only ones who’ve asked for this feature (unless you both are blowing up the ticket system under different aliases lol jk) and I think it would be a fairly simple firmware upgrade.

Let me see if we can add this to a future firmware release! I’ll put it in GitHub right now :slight_smile:

Thanks for the suggestion!

Good suggestion to put them in the manual. I’ve been revamping the Knowledge Base and trying to make it more user friendly, so I’ll add this to the scene control section or something.

Just confirming, although @mamber is correct – no power/temp monitoring in the switch – just an internal temperature monitor that is there to prevent overheating.

All, if I missed something, let me know – I’m just getting caught up!

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