Philips CX3550 Fan integration

Hello,

I just bought an Philips CX3550 it has wifi and works fine with the Philips Air+ App.
Does anyone know if it is possible in any way to connect it with Home Assistant?

Hi Dominik, welcome to the forum!

From searching ‘Philips Air’ on the forum I bumped on this: Fan control with set_preset_mode

Hi Nick,

thanks.
I’ve checked it and it seems like the linked post uses this integration correct?

I’ve tested it and connecting it ends up in an timeout.

Sorry, I don’t have such a device but I assumed that if you get the Philips Air integration working you might be lucky with you fan as well.
It seems there is no ready-made solution so you have to search and try related solutions.

You’re new to the forum but might be using HA for a longer time. (or not)
Some advice: if you buy a device that should be smart or you want to make it so, check this before buying it.
I don’t know what such a fan costs; I made some dumb fans smart by adding a smart plug that also reads power usage. Did the same one for a dumb washing machine.
Of course it’s a little less elegant but probably cheaper + you don’t have to rely on the manufacturer of that particular device.

Thank you. I’ll try out a little bit more the next weeks when I’m having more Tim.

Yes, I’m new to the forum but absolutely not new to smart home stuff and HA. I also did the same you did with the washing machine :slight_smile:
I’ve decided for the fan because if it’s fan feature and not because it is a smart device (the reason to buy it was that it Is only 19db loud) but I hoped to get rid of the Philips app and just integrate it into my other smart home stuf…

I’ll update this post when I found a solution :slight_smile:

Would be awesome if you share if/when you have a solution.

at the moment I’m scanning for ventilators with HA integration. Don’t get yourself a Duux (13db) if you like the integration, you removed it couple of years ago and I just checked with the helpdesk, it isn’t possible at the moment.

I’ve just purchased the Philip Air Pedestal Fan (CX3550/01). Tried above Air Purifier Integration and get timeout too. Should of done my research on this particular model, made an assumption that Philips Integration would be a given :frowning:

At least, let that be a lesson to do your research before buying anything that you want to integrate in HA.

I have a friend who always thought that buying from ‘a big, well known’ company/brand was safe until he bumped on the bad service/support/documentation/… a few times.
Even if he has ample of money, he has changed that idea!

Good learning for next time. I’ll use a smart plug to turn it on and off for now, the fan is Wi-Fi connected I’m really surprised that HA doesn’t have a HACS or something to control it.

Yeah, I understand that it sucks because I can imagine that this is not a cheap fan.

OTOH: being a member for 5y might have given you enough knowledge about HA that a device can be supported by a HA integration (or not) and that HACS stands for HACommunity Store.
It implies that it’s up to those members to foresee a way to integrate a device IF that is possible AND IF there is any/enough interest AND IF there is someone willing to spend the time for doing this.

For now, your only option seems to be to use a smart plug to control it from HA.