Hello everyone,
The GE Smart Fan Control Device only has three settings so why does the device icon have a slider bar? Is there anyway to get a selectable: Low, Medium and High setting instead of a slider bar? It appears Hubitat is treating this type of ZWave switch like a dimmer instead of a fan switch.
I suspect the incorrect attribute was automatically selected. That can happen. Try this:
Click on the 3 dots on the upper right of the dashboard tile. You will get an “Edit Tile” screen pop-up. Change the “Pick a template” to “Fan”:
Then click on “Close”.
The icon should change to a fan, and when you click on the tile, you should get the following pop-up:
Would that be what you are looking for?
Thanks Sebastien, yes that's what I'm looking for! Is there a way to remove the speed selections so it only list:
Off
Low
Medium
High ?
Also, how would I go about changing this in the Devices section of the mobile app? It still shows a a light bulb with a slider bar for the icon. (I'm prohibited from posting a screen shot of this for some reason)
I don’t know of any way to change that unfortunately…
As for changing it in the device section, that is not possible at this time. The device section is something new and still with limited functionality.
My guess is that this will probably come in the future. The "Rooms" feature (which the "Devices" tab in the mobile app uses) is still pretty new, and I don't think they've made any big changes to it since its introduction, where it only worked with light/switch/bulb-type devices. The fact that the fan exposes switch and possibly level (some do "level" like dimmers, others just true "fan speed"--or both) is probably enough to make it appear--even if it's a bit odd at the moment. You may notice that some devices just won't show at all.
A supportedFanSpeeds attribute was recently added to fan devices for Hubitat. This is also fairly new and doesn't have much effect yet, though any device/driver that sets it could make any app that reads it modify its behavior appropriately. This could include Rooms/Devices, Dashboard, etc.--but I'm not aware of any built-in ways this gets used now. That being said, on Dashboard, you can at least make it appear as a fan instead of a light if you want--you just won't see the filtered list of speeds. With Rooms, or "Devices" in the mobile app, things just are how they are right now. I think these were both mentioned above.
Hopefully this will be addressed at some point with improvements like these. But for now...
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