I have updated the driver to fix the descriptions for the attribute mentioned above on the fan and light endpoints. (If your existing setup is working, there is no need to change anything--this only affects what value gets displayed/set, as they were backwards before but will continue to work no matter what the UI wording was when you set them.)
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First of all - BIG THANK YOU!
Yes, I got everything working just fine. But for consistency I'll rather update drivers. This will eliminate me thinking overtime why the settings are unlogical.
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Been following this thread and was excited when I saw all the speeds that this module with this driver can do.
I purchased 2 of these from a fellow HE'r that was selling them and upon trying one of them out, I find that there are ONLY 3 speeds possible!
On my fan, 1-30% = 11VAC, 40-60% = 31VAC and 70-100% = 120VAC (full speed).
Is this true? Are these fan speed controllers ONLY 3 speed?
If so, WHAT A JOKE for $55!!!
What do you mean with this?
Yes, there was some discussion of this on the Inovelli forums during product development. From what I remember, this is pretty common with "smart" fan speed controllers because they are typically made with two capacitors, providing four possible permutations of speed, including off to full on. (Not an electrical engineer and probably misinterpreting something about this, but that was the general idea; you can probably find more with a search there.)
This, of course, isn't related to the driver, unless there is some Zigbee level mapping that doesn't quite match up (only reason I'm curious about the above 
).
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DANG IT!!!!
I was hoping that it had MORE than just 3 speeds, as per this in the driver:
14: [
desc: "Fan: default speed when turned on", type: "enum", default: 255, dataType: DataType.UINT8, options:
[[1: "1%"],[25:"10%"],[50:"20%"],[76:"30%"],[102:"40%"],[127:"50%"],[152:"60%"],[178:"70%"],
[203:"80%"],[229:"90%"],[254:"100%"],[255:"Previous speed [DEFAULT]"]]
To me this indicated that there were 11 possible speeds!
Yes, when I got my modules I popped the lid and saw the two capacitors and immediately was disappointed because I knew they were used for speed control and that there were only 3 speeds.
RATS! I was hoping.......
Upon further looking into the driver, I saw where the percentages were mapped to low/med/hi....
I just wish SOMEONE would make a speed controller that had MORE than 3 or 4 speeds! It ain't hard!
Thanks!
Ah, yeah, that's just possible options for the Zigbee attribute, which is consistent with their documentation but...probably doesn't have as many different outcomes in the real world as the options suggest.
The place to look is the "supportedFanSpeeds" attribute value (under "Current States") or the "Set Speed" command (possibly in the UI but for sure in any app that reads the former value and adjusts to use these options instead of a default set).
You aren't alone in that wish! Their forums have some discussion of this, too.
Yes, I saw those (low/med/hi/off), but was hoping that in addition there were more granular settings in percentages.
Oh well.....
Thanks for the info AND the driver!
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The main reason I also bought these modules is 1) I was using the Leviton ZW4SF (that kept locking up and needing a power cycle), and the Enbrighten ZWA4013 Zwave plus (that also kept locking up).
These are both 4 speed controls that are wall switches.
I found that whenever I do something like trying to pair another zwave device, these lock up (sometimes), and just randomly lock up.
At least with 4 speeds I can "fine tune" my fans.
But when they stop responding, they are USELESS!!!
I will keep looking or just live with 3 speeds......
Hi Bill. I am very sorry that they are not working as expected. The LZW36 was definitely capable of more granular speed adjustment so I assumed the new zigbee controllers would be just as capable. My wife would not have been happy. With the new DC fan she has six speeds and she is just satisfied with that. First I am glad you only paid half price, but if you can not resell them, then I will send back half the money.
Hello Steve!
WOW! That is a VERY nice offer, but you took a loss when you sold them to me and I cannot in good faith, accept your offer.
Thank you though for the GREAT offer!
I will try and re-sell them or see if I can actually use them somewhere else.
You were gracious enough to sell them, basically NEW and unused, at half price to me, and I thank you very much for all your effort!
I thought I had done my research on them, but I should have asked MORE questions about them, and that is my fault.
Thanks again for helping and the fantastic offer!
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Well, in frustration and conflicting information here and all over the web, I bit the bullet and did something vastly different!
I bought two Casablanca DC, 6 speed, reversible ceiling fans (remanufactured) off Amazon.
The remotes are RF, so I will teach my Broadlink RM4 pros the commands so I can use it with HE.
I will sell my AC fans, fan speed controllers (3 Leviton 4 speed, 3 Enbrighten 4 speed and 2 vzm36 3 speed).
Since I do like to run the fans at very low speed almost all the time, they are more efficient (which is not the big deal but still....), and will be more reliable to control (I hope!).
I want to thank Steve Maddigan for selling me the vzm36's at a great price though! Really helpful!
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