I setup the Homekit and it was pretty simple to do by following instruction. (We do have Homebridge set up and we been using it since and we wanted to compare it)
I added the fan switch from the Red Series Fan/Light switch to Homekit. It showed up on my iPhone as a fan with a fan icon.
When we pressed the slider bar around 40% level to enable the fan, the fan start running however the slider bar snapped back to 0%. We pressed it again and it keep snapping back to 0% however the fan continue to run and we couldn't shut it off because it's at 0% but the fan icon was highlighted stating that it was still running.
We had to shut it off with the Homebridge fan icon instead but it was showing the correct fan speed percentage. We did a few more testing and sometime the even the Homebridge fan would also show 0% speed as well too and it would no longer shut off the fan until we went to wall switch to manually shut it off.
We know it's beta stage but I wanted to post it since it possibly could be a bug or should I remove the fan from Homebridge?
I think I looked at this before for someone using Homebridge and it had to do with the way the driver was handling the speeds was not cooperating with the Homebridge integration.
I think it will have the same issue, fans are tricky when sharing to other services. Homekit really wants it to be a percent, like a dimmer. I ended up taking a virtual fan driver someone made and then customized it and use that to share via Homebridge. I have a rule that keeps the virtual in sync with my real fan. Unfortunately you cannot share custom virtual drivers on the new Homekit integration.
I do not have this issue when using Homebridge . I just have to remember to click on the slider bar in approximate location on what percentage I want the fan running at. I can’t just slide the bar up or down.
Like if I want it to run fan at 40% then I touch the bar approximately where 40% is at instead of trying to slide bar to 40% range. Works every time for me but I do slide bar to 0% to turn it off.
The Homekit app doesn’t seem want to work either way and it always snaps back to 0%
I can run my fans at 20, 40, 60, 80, and 100 percentage just have to touch bar at approximate location you want to run it at. Don’t try to slide it.
This is not a fix for your problem, but are you able to turn the fan off by tapping on the fan icon so you can use HomeKit to turn it off at least not the slider. Also see if you can have Siri set the fan lvl.
