Chinese ceiling fan lights - integrate into HA

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I’ve been looking recently into ceiling fan lights and thought since I already use HA, it would be great to then find one which is compatible or could at least be made compatible very easily.

Products over £100 is just a no go for me but I found a lot of decent quality fans on Aliexpress which TBH are being told on other sites selling way over £100.

Does anyone have experience with a decent fan which is just simply WIFI/Zigbee compatible particularly for the UK market is possible (this is based on the fact our lights are a bit awkward with no live wire running to the light switch)

Some examples I was looking at:

I had found the following Github Project from NicoLLT but a problem I would encounter is if I later decide to move my HA instance to docker then it will not work.

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Hello @jordanhinks0,

Sorry for the late answer, I just found this topic!

FYI, the fact to have HA in docker is not a complete showstopper, you have several solutions to have it work, it can be either:

  • Use an external ble_adv_proxy built on a ESP32
  • Setup the HA container as done by HASS (root, network-mode ‘host’)
  • Use the workaround for non root / network-mode ‘host’ containers