QuietCool Whole House Fan (RF "glass" remote) integration

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Hi all,

I just installed a QuietCool whole house fan and was disappointed that I wasn't able to easily integrate it into Home Assistant. So I did what any nerd trying to avoid real work would do and fired up URH and reverse engineered the remote's RF protocol to build an ESPHome controller for it.

The entire process and sample component YAML are documented in my git repo.

I used an ESP32 and a CC1101 radio module (both available from lots of places online for less than $10 USD each) and was able to get it to work using the stock components in ESPHome (CC1101 and Template Fan) and also provided the code to the Arduino proof-of-concept.

Major kudos to Caleb Crome who reverse engineered an older version and got me heading down the right path.

Happy to answer any questions if you have them!

Cheers,
-Thadd

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Hi there, I’m excited to see this as I just picked up one of these: https://www.athom.tech/blank-1/esphome-rf433-ir-remote-controller, and I attempted hacking the RF signals but failed in my attempts.

Any idea if your code could be adapted for this controller?

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There’s a good chance it can. I have a generic 433 radio and I’ll do some testing. It might need a custom component though.

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Wow. I have been checking quietcools website for YEARS waiting for this functionality. Nice work thadd. Thank you so much!

Really easy to set up. Highly recommend