2y ago

Help finding a replacement for these dimmer+fan wall switches?

I'm in the US. My wife and I are moving into a new-build community in Feb. next year and they are using these wall controls for the rooms with lights and a fan.

I'm having a little trouble finding a home assistant compatible replacement. The 1-gang width probably limits my options severely. I'm open to converting these to 2-gang, so I'm open to 2-gang devices as well.

Zigbee is is my preference, then WiFi (local only), and I'm not interested in z-wave.

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You can check out the inovelli switches. They have zigbee switches coming soon.
- Great product, I have five of the dimmer only model in my house already and will be getting more. Properly (c)UL listed as well! Great company as well, highly recommended!
- It looks like they used to have a light+fan combo for z-wave but discontinued it.
  Looks like the blue series will be out of beta by the time I need them, but I'd need to convert all my boxes to 2-gang and buy both devices separately. They look nice, but hopefully I can find something a little cheaper and/or single gang
  
  Yeah, I feel you there, but the opposite (fans already in their own gang) and I use zwave. Maybe I'll switch those to zigbee. Some day.... Some day...
- I can second these. Have haf a very positive experience with some of their Blue 2-1 switches (and in a 3-way setup with Aux switch).
How comfortable are you re-flashing devices and doing a bit of event/automation programming? I use an iFan04-L for the fan+light and then coded the button events from a Martin-Jerry dimmer to change the fan speed and toggle the light.
You'd need to flash the iFan04 but you can get the MJ stuff with Tasmota preinstalled (Amazon stuff was different firmware but their website gives you a choice)
- I would be comfortable with that, but I definitely prefer devices that retain the wall controls like a normal wall switch. And will work even if the smart home goes down. I should have mentioned that in my post.
  
  The ifan has a remote, so not quite a wall switch, but still doesn't require HA to make things happen.
  I just installed one in a fan in our dining room as a test. Flashed with Tasmota.
  
  That's totally fair. In my case I was also limited because the location originally had just lights (so only hot+neutral+ground) but if you want to control lights+fan separately you need at least 3 wires+ground (common neutral, shared ground, hot for fan, hot for light).
  In your case, maybe something like the Treatlife DS03 might do the job? I've never used it myself but it does have separate wires for load and fan-load, there's a Tasmota template, and still did a fairly decent write-up

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