I just installed a Jasco 14310 / ZW4002 Z-wave ceiling fan switch, and it seems to be working fine. When I add the device to my dashboard, it does show the fan status making it easy to turn on / off. Fortunately, when I “press and hold” the fan icon on my dashboard, it will pop up a window allowing me to tap the appropriate icon to set the fan speed to low, medium, and high (which is great).
“However”, I cannot find any entity or value that will allow HA to set the speed. I have a remote Z-wave switch that I use to turn the fan on / off as well, but I cannot find a way to program the remote switch (by using a different button on the remote, for example) to set the fan speed to low/medium/high (or increase/decrease the speed), because I cannot find any entity that would allow me to direct the fan to do that via HA. I must manually tap the Home Assistant dashboard screen fan icon and hold it to bring up the low/medium/high options.
When I added the device to HA, it only created 3 additional entities: Scene ID, Event Value, and firmware status. Turning on/off the fan and changing fan speeds either via HA or by the physical switch doesn’t change the Scene ID or Event Value entities - both always show ‘unknown’.
Does anyone know of a way to change the fan speed (or setting the fan speed to a specific value) any different way than what I described above?
I have 4 GE/Jasco Zwave fan controllers and they each have entities and have automation to set the speed. I suggest that you re-install the device.
I do have an unrelated issue with the one 800 Series Jasco fan controller that sometimes only runs on 100 pct and when I have time I switch back to the 500 Series device, as the other 3 fans in my home use.
Thanks for the suggestion. Regrettably, it didn’t work.
A couple of things that “might” be a consideration:
I actually installed this switch to replace a Leviton fan switch that also had the same problem (no entities to set or change fan speed), and I uninstalled/reinstalledj that switch quite a number of times - also with no success. When I added the Jasco switch, I used Z-wave JS UI to “replace” the Leviton switch, and i am not sure if (somehow) the Jasco switch “inherited” the same limitation as the old switch.
When I first installed the Jasco switch (to replace the old Leviton), and I set the security to ‘Default’, it actually ended up setting the Jasco switch to S2. However, when I uninstalled then reinstalled the Jasco switch (which I did a few minutes ago), and when I specified Default for security, it ended up with no security applied.
I do not know what happened as I have the 4 Jasco fan switches with entities, but I would for sure not use the replacement option and do a clean install of the switch.
I am not very technical but I would make sure, before the clean installation, to remove everything of the old device.
Yeah, I had that thought after I did the replace (instead of new). Like you, I am not as technically savvy as some.
There are articles about how the ‘remembered’ information on old devices can be removed, but the details are not as clear to me as to others more programmer-oriented, so my guess is that I am out of luck.
Low / Medium / High is fine for me. What I “want” to do is allow a remote switch that I have (for the fan) to be able to change the speed. Since there are no entities on my HA system that allow me to set the speed, I cannot direct the remote switch (when an appropriate button is pressed on it) to “tell” the fan to run at a different speed. All I can do (from the remote switch) is turn it off and on.
Others (like the posts from EndUser) indicated that they have the entities (when they installed the Jasco switch) to set the fan speed to low / medium / high. Since those entities were not created when I installed that switch, I don’t have the ability (regrettably) to do that. Very frustrating!
Huge help - thanks! Once I specified the fan switch ‘entity’ (vs. the device), it opened up a whole bunch of options (including increasing or decreasing the speed of the fan - which was the ideal choice for what I wanted to do).
Thanks so much for the assistance - very much appreciated!