Sort of Hubitat newbie here. New construction - and I had a bunch of Z-Wave switches installed throughout the house - originally integrated directly to my alarm company's equipment.
I had a bunch of problems - mainly inconsistent behavior from many of the switches.
I bought a C7 and migrated everything and it's been working great. I actually recently shifted to the C8 to try to get some additional range.
So I installed a bunch of Honeywell UltraPro Z-Wave Plus Smart Fan Speed Control switches. The fans used in the house are Minka - and I was told that they won't work correctly with typical fan controllers - as they don't accept dimming from a normal fan controller switch, they require their own switches or their remotes.
The on / off function works well. The switches need to be on (of course) to get the fan to work.
When I migrated over to Hubitat - I removed the fan controllers from the alarm hub, but didn't add them to Hubitat since I knew they wouldn't work as intended.
However - after being here for a bit - the fans return to their previous speed when the switches are turned on.
So that got me to thinking - is there a way to add / learn these switches into Hubitat - and then manually configure them so they only show up as on / off devices?
Is it that Honeywell Ultra Pro Z-Wave Plus controller which is managing the fans.
Have you checked to see if that controller is supported by Hubitat. I think Honeywell are just variations of Jasco/GE controllers which in that case they likely would be.
It sounds like your fans are DC and not AC fans which would be why they don't work with the fan controller for speed.
You may also want to look at Bond as a control method as well. I am guess those fans use a RF remote which Bond could possibly use for control as well.
i'm using honeywell dimmers and on/off switches throughout the house, and they work great with hubitat. and yes, my recollection is that they're actually jasco.
the bond would definitely work (minka confirmed) but it's going to do way more than i need, and i'm trying to avoid adding yet another device to the house
if i can just do on / off - then i can do schedules or have HomeKit say turn them on when a temperature achieves a specific level.
I can definitely do that - but if people who use Apple home here try to change the speed of the fan by having the fan controller try to do it - it can cause issues with the fan.
So ideally I wanted to add them to hubitat and then manually reconfigure them in hubitat just to allow on / off, without any ability to change speed.
You can use a Virtual Switch to just turn the fan on or off. A rule would turn the physical switch on to high speed and off.
Then you would just have to worry about people multi-tapping the physical switch. I don't think there is any cure for that outside of replacing the switch. I don't see any advanced parameters in the user guide for the fan where it allows for limiting speeds.
I think the issue with that Virtual Switch method is (someone correct me if I am wrong) that Homekit official integration doesn't recognize virtual switches? I think the community version does though, so maybe you could use that community integration for a few devices? I don't know for sure whether this would work (or work good) I am not an Apple user, just going by what I have read on here...
I thought I saw someplace where I could change the device / driver - and figured I'd check here to see if anyone might have tried to do that with fan controllers before I tried it out.
I'll try that - and reply here in case anyone is curious.
Actually official Virtual Switches provided in the Hubitat firmware do work for Home Kit integration. That is how users have taken the Govee Integration and gotten it to interact with Homekit.
A possible solution for a ON/Off switch could also be a Zen30 double Switch. It has a 15 am relay for the fan that is on/off only. Not sure if it makes sense though to change that out.
