We have a ceiling fan/light that I'm having trouble integrating to our HA system. All our other fan/lights use regular AC into the fan and light, so I've been able to use Z-Wave switches at the wall for both local and remote control. However, this unit uses some kind of RF-based controller I can't identify. Pictures below.
I tried to integrate it using a Bond, which only works intermittently and still doesn't provide feedback on actual state.
Is anybody aware of what this controller is and what a good replacement to get it directly on the Z-Wave mesh might be?
That's what we did for our other fans, which worked fine because both the motor and the lights took direct AC. Remove the remote unit, connect each to the separate lines that were already in the ceiling running to the wall switches, and put Z-Wave controllers in the wall.
It doesn't seem that I can do that for this fan because the controller has some kind of odd connectors on the end. I suspect the controller is stepping down the voltage for the LED lights, although I haven't tested the output.
Looking at the product website, it looks like this uses a DC (Brushless DC - BLDC) Motor. You can’t just use any old AC controller. This is a very proprietary setup. Your best bet might be to program a ZWave dev board to activate the buttons on the included remote.
Capturing the signals and sending it is what the Bond was supposed to do, but it's not sufficiently reliable. I'm not sure if it's failing at the transmission end - that the Bond isn't sending reliably - or at the receiver end. I don't currently have a way to test for transmission outside this receiver. Maybe I need a diagnostic receiver for 433Mhz.
