Trouble with GE Smart Fan Control (12730) and Google Home

codahq · February 12, 2019, 8:49am

Actually, it's not Google. Our HE guys opted to only implement fans as dimmers. There is an actual fan type that they opted not to use.

For them to use the fan control in Actions on Google it would have required sort of a paradigm shift on our part though. The fact is we are used to saying set the fan to 50% or whatever instead of set the fan to medium.

I modified this driver to work with hubitat enough to save and be selected in the device settings. (It only took changing from physicalgraph to hubitat in the package names.)

github.com

jhamstead/jhamstead/blob/master/devicetypes/smartthings/zwave-fan-control.src/zwave-fan-control.groovy

/**
 *  Z-Wave Fan Control
 * 
 *  A better functional Device Type for Z-Wave Smart Fan Control Switches
 *  Particularly the GE 12730 Z-Wave Smart Fan Control.
 *
 *  Copyright 2018 Jonathan Hamstead
 *
 *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
 *  in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed
 *  on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
 *  for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
 *
 *  Contributors:
 *  ChadK: Original 3 Speed Switch Code
 *  Child Device Information From KOF Zigbee Fan Controller:

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Even with a device driver that doesn't implement any light capabilities it seems that HE forces it to a light if it implements switch control. For now I will use your workaround of putting the fan in a different room but I don't like it. Google's speaker/display devices are room aware (they know where you put them as you implied above) and if they do more along the lines of requiring you to use the room name to control devices outside the room it will be annoying later to control fans if they are in a different room.

Also, it would be nice to just say "turn on the fan" in any room with a fan and a Google device. I love being able to just say "turn on the lights" in any room with a Google device and have it only turn on the lights in that room.