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 āPhilips Airā on the forum I bumped on this: Fan control with set_preset_mode
Hi Nick,
thanks.
Iāve checked it and it seems like the linked post uses this integration correct?
Iāve tested it and connecting it ends up in an timeout.
Sorry, I donāt 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.
Youāre 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 donāt 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 itās a little less elegant but probably cheaper + you donāt have to rely on the manufacturer of that particular device.
Thank you. Iāll try out a little bit more the next weeks when Iām having more Tim.
Yes, Iām 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 
Iāve decided for the fan because if itās 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 stufā¦
Iāll update this post when I found a solution
Would be awesome if you share if/when you have a solution.
at the moment Iām scanning for ventilators with HA integration. Donāt 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 isnāt possible at the moment.
Iāve 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 
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 āa big, well knownā company/brand was safe until he bumped on the bad service/support/documentation/ā¦ a few times.
Even if he has ample of money, he has changed that idea!
Good learning for next time. Iāll use a smart plug to turn it on and off for now, the fan is Wi-Fi connected Iām really surprised that HA doesnāt 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 itās 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.
I got it working using the Google Assistant SDK integration. The philips air purifier seems to function well with Google Home, although just a basic on/off function. In my case I named my device āHumidifierā in Google Home, calling āHumidfier onā through the Google Assistant SDK turns it on).
Hi everyone,
Iām new here, but I thought my solution might help someone, since Iāve seen people struggle with adding Philips fans to Home Assistant. Iāve tested this on two CX3550/01 units I bought today and it worked 4/4 times.
At first, nothing was working. I followed the guide on GitHub, but I kept getting constant timeouts when trying to add the device.
Turning the device on and off didnāt help.
I was getting frustrated, since I could ping the device from my Mac (so it was on the network), but the integration still refused to connect.
What Finally Worked - Hereās the trick:
Using the Advanced SSH & Web Terminal add-on in Home Assistant, I started pinging the device (CX3550/01) from the console and just left the ping running in the background.
Then, I went back to the Philips AirPurifier (CoAP) integration and tried adding the device again.
Boom! It worked.
I honestly couldnāt believe it was that simple. I stopped the ping, restarted the console, and tried the exact same trick with my second fan (which also wouldnāt connect before). Again, I started pinging it, manually added it to the integrationāand it connected right away. I repeated this for both fans, multiple times, and it worked every time.
Summary
So, in short:
Start pinging the fan from your Home Assistant terminal and leave it running, then add it to the integration.
No clue why it works, but it does!
Would love to hear if this helps anyone else. If you try it, let me know your results.
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Amazing! Thanks for the information, I hadnāt revisited this since my enquiry last year. I still got the timeouts following your process, in addition I tried turning the fan on/off via the app and that seemed to make the HA Integration happy.
So happy to have this fan automation ready now. Thanks Again!!!
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Hi,
If you donāt mind me asking directly, for those of you who successfully integrated the Philips CX3550 into Home Assistant:
What exactly can you control? Can you switch between the individual preset modes?
Thanks in advance!
