I’ve gone entirely too far down the Z-wave rabbit hole. I have over 40 switches, of which about half have failed. I’ve stupidly replaced most of them thinking this time it will be different. It’s not. So my Enbrighten fan switch died, surprise, surprise. I looked for alternatives to control a fan but cannot seem to find anything but a z-wave Enbrighten or a wi-fi alternative. But if you want to stay in the Z universe, you have few options so I got this fan controller. It is a newer version than the one that failed and has more features so I had hope. I quickly wired it up per the diagram and the switch worked fine using the paddles. Then I spent three hours trying to to pair it as a fan to Smartthings. Using the QR code or pin, it will pair as a Jasco dimmer. Or it might pair as a Jasco switch (no speed control). Depends upon its mood. Others advised pairing it as a GE fan to address this. I tried and it would eventually ask for the QR or pin to confirm and complete the setup. Whether I’d do this or skip this, the result was the same. It would connect as a light switch with no dimmer capability. I tried changing the driver after the fact but even though I have the GE fan driver in my hub, it won’t assign to this fan controller. Ultimately I tried again and again until I got a dimmer setup. It works, but smartthings does not recognize it as a fan and I cannot assign a fan driver and I cannot use all the fancy features. So, i think I will be migrating to wi-fi controlled devices moving forward. Z-wave is almost 2x the cost and seems to have little support from the manufacturers.
