Weird behavior with HA, GE Fan controller and Alexa

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I have a couple fan controllers, I can turn them on/off with HA via automations, and the UI. I can set the speed via Automations, and UI, and I can use my echos to turn on and off, and set the speed to LOW or High, but when I tell my echo to set the speed to Medium, it does not know what to do. It basically says “living room fan does not support that”. I cannot remember the exact phrase. I tried using the word medium, middle, mid, med.

I rarely set the speed to medium which is probably why i never noticed. Not sure if its ever worked, or this is new.

Anyone else have this issue?

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how are you connecting HA to alexa?

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Good question, I am using using the cloud componet

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hmmm, i would think it would be medium? I don’t use cloud. I use emulated hue, so I can’t do anything other than turn it on.

EDIT: My ge fan switch has low, medium, and high settings in ha. I would expect the phrases to be identical

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I was actually surprised, and quite happy, when I realized I could control the speeds. Of course, was quite a while before I realized medium did not work. Its not the end of the world, but still seems to me like something is not working, vs just not an option.

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With Alexa, ‘set fan to 50%’ sets my fan to medium, ‘low’ and ‘high’ also work.
With Google Assistant, nothing works but ‘on’ and ‘off’.

Edit: Chatted with Google Home support: speed levels coming

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Yes that works for me too. I believe it’s in increments of 33 for low, med, high. Just more of a why can I say low and high but not medium. For guests it would be confusing. Again not the end of the world. Just seems like an oversight

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Yes - I have the same issue with my Alexa cloud connected fan. Medium doesn’t work but 50% does.

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Anyone ever figure out how to get it to use medium?

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I was just wondering the same thing.