I had no idea this would be so hard to find. I have several ceiling fan/light combos in the house, currently controlled via 2x dimmers, one for the fan, one for the light. So the box has Line, Neutral, Light load and Fan load. Manually, works fine. But we want smart right ?
Tried the Meross MFC100 ( meross Smart Ceiling Fan Control and Dimmer Switch, Supports Apple HomeKit, Alexa, Google & SmartThings, 2.4G Wi-Fi Fan and Light Switch Combo, 4 Fan Speed, Neutral Wire Needed, Single Pole, 2 Pack - Amazon.com ) - we have a Homey Meross app so it should work right ? TWO apps, the official and the community one.
Nope. Neither support the MFC100. In fact, the main android Meross app doesn’t list it, nor was I able to get that app to add the device.
Tried the TreatLife DSO3-1 ( TREATLIFE Smart Ceiling Fan Control and Dimmer Light Switch, 2.4GHz WiFi Only, Neutral Wire Required, Single Pole Fan & Light Switch Combo, Works with Alexa, Google Home & SmartThings, Remote Control - Amazon.com ) - supported by the Tuya Official app.
Nope. The Tuya android app would add it, but it never showed up in Homey.
Both of those support SmartThings, but I was only able to get one of them in the android SmartThings app (don’t remember which), and it just exposed a bunch of variables to Homey, no actual controls.
Really wanted the Kasa KS240 to work ( Kasa Smart Ceiling Fan Control & Dimmer Switch | Adjustable 4-Speed Fan & Brightness Control | Works w/Apple HomeKit, Alexa & Google Home | 2.4G Wi-Fi Only, Single Pole, Neutral Wire Required | KS240 - Amazon.com ) - this has the best ergonomics and manual control. It adds to the Kasa android app fine, and can control the light and fan from that. There are two Homey TP-Link Kasa apps, an official and a community.
Neither support the KS-240.
I tried the Homey Homekit app, which WAS able to see the KS-240 ! But it would only control the light dimming, not the fan. Oh the controls for the fan were there, and you could turn the fan on/off and you could set the fan speed, but that had no effect on the fan. The Kasa app could control it fine though, so it’s a mismatch between the Kasa homekit protocol and the Homey homekit app I suppose. Besides, the controls in Homey for it were cumbersome … Push-n-hold device, go to on/off tab, pull down to control light or fan, turn light or fan on, select dim/speed tab, pull down to select light or fan, set dim or speed. Ugh. Should have been a single tab with two vertical dimmers and two on/off buttons under the dimmers. Everything in ONE spot.
Besides, as nice as the Kasa ergonomics are, ehhh. Turn on fan, select speed, fan starts going, and a few seconds later the vertical indicator goes OFF. Fan is still on, but no feedback as to what speed. At least the light dimmer vertical indicator stayed on and tracked the dimming level. That feels like a firmware issue …
Now that I know about the Homey Homekit app, I’m tempted to try the Meross and/or TreatLife ones again. They say they support Homekit, but so does the Kasa KS-240 and that … didn’t.
We have other fan/light combos in the house, but with only a single wire from the switch to up the fan. You’re supposed to flip the switch to turn it on, then use the pull-chains to select fan speed and light on/off. Ancient.
For those I’ve picked up the Inovelli Fan & Light Canopy module with associated wall switch ( Blue Series Smart Fan/Light Canopy Module | Inovelli ) They will work, but the ergonomics aren’t great. Main switch controls the light, so multiple pushes up/down to dim up/down. The small config-button controls fan speed up/down, like click 4x times to get to fastest fan speed. But, there are a bajillion parameters you can configure, so I’m sure I can get them working “nicely”.
Another option is to replace them with Matter-enabled fans … for example (https://www.lowes.com/pd/ALTITUDE-52-IN-ALTITUDE-BOCA-II-BLK-CFAN/5015568031) looks nice. But you still have the wall-switch controls to deal with, since we DO want local/manual control.
What have you all been doing with smart ceiling fan/light setups ?
