neon.ninja

Sharing enlightening moments of home automation

Tag: ceiling fan

  • RF Bridge the Gap to make another Ceiling Fan smart

    RF Bridge the Gap to make another Ceiling Fan smart

    When we bought a new Brilliant Bahama ceiling fan for the living room recently, style was deemed more important than an easy home automation integration. The fan came with an RF remote control , so I thought to give the RF route a go to integrate this ceiling fan into Home Assistant for local control.

  • ESPHome’s fan-tastic rescue

    ESPHome’s fan-tastic rescue

    After successfully retrofitting a smart fan controller onto an older ceiling fan, it was time to install and upgrade more ceiling fans around the house. In this post I am describing how I integrated a Brilliant Bahama smart ceiling fan into Home Assistant, and in the next post I am going to show how I…

  • Taking the old ceiling fan for a smart spin

    Taking the old ceiling fan for a smart spin

    I have recently bought a Brilliant Smart WiFi Ceiling Fan Controller for a bedroom ceiling fan in our house. This is a Tuya device but I wanted to avoid signing up to the Tuya cloud service to operate my ceiling fan under all circumstances. In this article I just wanted to share a few learnings…