Ceiling fan speed control switch

Hardware
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I am trying to find a Home Assistant compatible ceiling fan speed controller that meets my requirements.

The Leviton D24SF-1BW would be ideal, but from the reading I have done, it is not supported by Home Assistant.

The Lutron PD-FSQN-WH would be fine too, and it is compatible with Home Assistant, but it requires a hub, and I want to avoid using hubs for smart devices if I can.

I have a Treatlife DS02F switch currently installed (from before I started using Home Assistant) . It appears other Treatlife switches can have their firmware hacked/replaced (I am fine doing this), but unfortunately this fan speed controller does not appear to have a similar hack available.

With the above examples, you can kind of see what I am going for. I want something I can wire into a wall that controls the fan speed via physical interaction on the wall AND through Home Assistant.

I want to stay away from any of the fan controllers that you stuff into the base of the fan or into the wall cavity and use a remote that is hung on the wall like the Sonoff Fan04.

I would prefer it to only do speed control, like my examples, but I will accept one that does lights and speed if there are no better options.

So does what i described exist? or am I being too picky? Thanks for any insight!

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Not picky. I have not found something similar either, but will be watching other comments in this thread.

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They’ve replaced the module on that fan with beken, so you could still flash it with openbeken/libretiny.

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I have the Leviton DW4SF. I just found out today that you can add it with a dimmable light switch button to your dashboard and it does change the fan speed.

You just add the Leviton app to your configuration.yaml:

# leviton config
light:
  - platform: decora_wifi
    username: "username"
    password: "password"

Here’s an example of what I mean for the dashboard button:

type: light
entity: light.master_fan
name: Master Bedroom Ceiling Fan
icon: mdi:ceiling-fan
hold_action:
  action: toggle
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Thanks for the info! If I had saw this earlier, I probably would have went with with this solution. I ended up going the “hard way” though, which I will detail in my next reply.

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The solution I settled on was to disassemble the TreatLife DS02F fan speed controller I already had and replace the WIFI module with an ESP8266-F12 that was flashed with ESPHome. It required a bit of investment… I had been looking for an excuse to buy a hot air rework station :sweat_smile:. I figured it was worth it since I plan to install another 2 or 3 of these sometime soon.

This is the video I followed that got me most of the way there. He takes apart a different TreatLife product, but it was fairly similar.

For what its worth, I ended up breaking half the clips that held the face onto the switch because I didn’t know where they were. There are 4 of them and they are on the sides. Also, be careful when removing the face plate, there is a thin ribbon wire the connects front to the back. Disconnect it like usual, slide the locking bar out before attempting to remove the ribbon. Since I broke those clips, I’m just going to use a couple dabs of Super Glue before I install it back in the wall.

If you use a hot air rework station to replace the chip, take the foam pad off that’s next to the microswitch. I tried to be really careful with the hot air, but the foam still slowly shrank. I noticed early enough to remove it before it caused problems. I was able to stick it back on the board before assembly and it was fine.

Broken Right Clips
Broken Right Clips1920×1440 117 KB

Left Clips
Left Clips1920×1440 121 KB

This link will take you to the ESPHome page for the TreatLife DS02F Fan Controller:

I started off with the example code they provided, but ended up changing it a bit. Specifically the

logger:
  baud_rate: 0

needed to be added, otherwise it kept giving me errors when i tried to look at the logs via WIFI through ESPHome. The below code is what I am currently using.


substitutions:
  devicename: master-bedroom-fan-control
  friendly_name: Master Bedroom Fan Control

esphome:
  name: ${devicename}
  friendly_name: ${friendly_name}

esp8266:
  board: esp01_1m

# Enable logging
logger:
  baud_rate: 0

# Enable Home Assistant API
api:
  encryption:
    key: "YourKeyHere"

ota:
  password: "YourOTAPasswordHere"

wifi:
  ssid: !secret wifi_ssid_house
  password: !secret wifi_password

  # Enable fallback hotspot (captive portal) in case wifi connection fails
  ap:
    ssid: "${friendly_name}"

captive_portal:

uart:
  rx_pin: GPIO3
  tx_pin: GPIO1
  baud_rate: 115200

tuya:

fan:
  - platform: "tuya"
    name: Speed
    switch_datapoint: 1
    speed_datapoint: 3
    speed_count: 4

Its working well so far! I added it as a button card to my dashboard. At first I could not figure out how to control the speed from Home Assistant since the entity it added behaves like a normal light switch, but then I realized if I “long press” the button, it would give me the detailed view which was a slider.

That’s my only complaint really… Personally I would like to have a toggle for the “On/Off” state and a dedicated separate slider to control the speed setting without needing to long press. Honestly its a mild complaint, I’m getting used to how it currently works and I’m starting to prefer it since it takes up less space in exchange for a different click.

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I ended up using the Treatlife DS03, (LocalTuya must be installed) and it worked pretty well.