I actually just ended up converting over a basic fan I had set up in HA when I originally started using it A LONG time ago. It had just been a bank of four switches that I had set up automations for to toggle the broadlink switches back off after I changed the fan speeds. The fan is now converted to a proper “fan” in the HA sense of the word.
And with that to get my version of the fan card to work from that other thread I just had to make a change to pick up the “off” speed state. It wasn’t turning off and it was giving me an error.
I’m starting a new thread to split my config away from the other thread and it has a link to a package of fans to use as a template for anyone who wants to use it.
Here is the link to the thread I just started: