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Help with Fanlinc's
Christopher Macnichol Posts: 37
2/11/2015
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Well, I am on my way to getting everything to work together, but I am still having issues with my Fanlinc's. In this case I have two of them located in the same room. Currently I have a group setup to control both at once for the master lights in that room. Oddly, the response time of the lights is noticeably slower then turning them on one at a time or both in a scene.
The scene was better but did not support dim commands. With the group, one turns on then the other follows is about 5-10 seconds later. This I can deal with as it is a pretty small annoyance.
My biggest issue right now is that for the life of me, I cannot get the Fan Commands to work with Voice. From the Interface it works with the drop down selection, but no variant will work with voice.
Am I missing a command here in how to control the Fans? I cannot find a way to add the Fan speed settings into a scene or group at the moment either.
Any ideas on the best way to set this up? Ideally I just want the Master Lights command to control both lights as dimmables. Then have a second command for fan control, again both at the same time.
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Chris Cicchitelli Administrator Posts: 3390
3/3/2015
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Christopher Macnichol wrote: Well, I am on my way to getting everything to work together, but I am still having issues with my Fanlinc's. In this case I have two of them located in the same room. Currently I have a group setup to control both at once for the master lights in that room. Oddly, the response time of the lights is noticeably slower then turning them on one at a time or both in a scene.
The scene was better but did not support dim commands. With the group, one turns on then the other follows is about 5-10 seconds later. This I can deal with as it is a pretty small annoyance.
My biggest issue right now is that for the life of me, I cannot get the Fan Commands to work with Voice. From the Interface it works with the drop down selection, but no variant will work with voice.
Am I missing a command here in how to control the Fans? I cannot find a way to add the Fan speed settings into a scene or group at the moment either.
Any ideas on the best way to set this up? Ideally I just want the Master Lights command to control both lights as dimmables. Then have a second command for fan control, again both at the same time. Hey Chris! Group on/off commands are just master level on/off. With scenes, they are activated or deactivated, but the scene themselves can contain various dim levels, even colors (for color changing bulbs). Voice fan commands are probably getting routed to the thermostat instead (even if there isn't one present). That's on our list for improvement. FanLinc lighting can be added to scenes, but not the fan speed (this is by design). That said, I see your use case and it makes sense - we'll look into adding fan speeds to scenes. Thanks for the suggestion! You are able to control the fan from the Devices screen, correct? -Chris
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