neon.ninja

Sharing enlightening moments of home automation

Tag: fan

  • Subfloor Ventilation Made Easy

    Subfloor Ventilation Made Easy

    A subfloor ventilation system is probably something that most people get installed, configured and then forget about. And in many cases that might be fine, but if you had the opportunity, wouldn’t it be better to take more control over such a system? I decided to do exactly that and control the ventilation system based…

  • 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…