Easy solution, the inovelli fan/light switch will do exactly what you need, without having to fish any new lines. You will have fan speed control and light dimming control. If you have a switch loop you can simply convert the wiring at the switch to a hot and a neutral, this is accomplished by changing some wiring connections in the octagon box of the fan. It is the only solution out there when you have just a hot and a neutral from a ceiling fan.
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Inovelli LZW-36! Yes, this does look like it does exactly what I need.
They've taken the step of their own radio link, thus getting around the wiring issue. By integrating the pieces they save me from thinking about that level of detail.
The switch-box is maybe 15 feet through thin air, and about 10 feet from the Zwave hub, so none of the range issues arise in my use-case, nothing to worry about there.
It's even on Amazon, so I should have found it myself. I think I overload going through so many hits and finding the information I'm looking for sometimes hard to find.
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Yep, they are the only ones with this innovative solution to a problem so many people have. As a bonus, the switch has their LED light bars that you can automate. Mine pulse red when there is a weather warning in my area, as one example of how I use the LED light bars. Love them.
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Yes, I noticed the light-tree potential :-). No idea what I might use it for in the end (your use is not at all a bad one for pulsing red!).
(So how does your hub know there's a weather warning? Mostly we get them on audio weather radios, but none of ours do Zwave 
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Try the Openweather driver. It's excellent.
And regarding the thread title...
How to approach an old fan in an old house
Slowly, and carry a digital multimeter... 
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That alerts driver -- I have to get the code from Github and somehow install it into Hubitat? Haven't don't that kind of thing yet, but can't be that hard.
(And yeah, multimeter handy -- though I'm pretty fond of my old neon bulb tester, it can show me if a line is live without even a ground.)
I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking it...
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Follow the link at the top of the thread to go to the github:
Choose the driver:
Click on Raw
Then copy the all the text for the driver, Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C
Then create a new driver in HE:
Select the Drivers Code tab in HE:
Click the New Driver option and then paste in and save the driver code.
Then you're ready to create a virtual device using that driver, and set parameters, etc.
I'm not so sure you should be thinking like me. Gets me into trouble all the time...
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Ah, the "choose the driver" step wasn't obvious, especially given truncation on my display. I've gotten as far as installing the driver code, and it recognized it as the right name, so I'm cautiously optimistic at this point .
Yup - that's the hard part. Now you just create a new device from the Add Virtual Device option at the top-right of your Devices page, and choose the driver you just installed as its driver, and give the virtual device a meaningful name that you'll easily remember.
Follow the info on the thread for configuring the virtual device settings.
Now have the fan controller module here. The more I look at the light plus fan assembly hanging from my ceiling, the more I think I'm going to wait until I can have friends over to help to try to actually wire this, though. 10 foot ceilings, and then messing with wired-in stuff that is too heavy to hang on the wire; will need at least one more ladder, too. Not something smart to try with just one person, the more I look at it.
Here's a couple of ideas Not to try. (see next post)
Yes, I think setups like that have a fair amount to do with why I've lived so long. I mean, that I never do that kind of thing!
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Scary...the first one actually looks real, just nutso to trust that he would trust that the universe is going to protect him.
Secod one looks like a setup. I sure hope it was, anyway.
EEK!
I have actually done something slightly similar to the first one. It wasn't nearly as janky as that, but did involve multiple extension ladders in a stairwell. Mine ended up almost like a cross between a catwalk and scaffolding.
I am SO glad you are still here to talk about it... 
We all do something dumb once or twice, don't we. I'll keep mine to myself for the moment... 
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Wasn't that you in the Pico thread just the other day? Something about your lovely wife? 
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