Fan Controll via UPB

[hawhoo]

Hi
I am looking for a UPB solution (to interface with my elk M1) that would allow me to control a ceiling fan.
I would like at least 3 speeds. Ideally would be the lutron fan canopy module if it would speak upb.



Thanks for your help

 

[mustangcoupe]

Hi
I am looking for a UPB solution (to interface with my elk M1) that would allow me to control a ceiling fan.
I would like at least 3 speeds. Ideally would be the lutron fan canopy module if it would speak upb.



Thanks for your help

Short answer NONE.

sorry to say. Most of us who use UPB use a UPB module/switch in non dimming mode, to get on/off control. But there is nothing with speed control.

 

[ano]

Hi
I am looking for a UPB solution (to interface with my elk M1) that would allow me to control a ceiling fan.
I would like at least 3 speeds. Ideally would be the lutron fan canopy module if it would speak upb.



Thanks for your help

I think PCS has a switch for LOTs of money, but to be honest, how often do you change the speeds? I live in AZ and have a ceiling fan in every room of my house just about and never change the speed. Use a relay/non-dim switch and use the pullchain speed switch. Goodluck even finding a ceiling fan without remote now-a-days. I've had to strip the remote out of two of them because any nice fan has the stupid remote.

 

[Rupp]

Hack the remote and you can have your control and speeds as well.

 

[cornutt]

Hack the remote and you can have your control and speeds as well.

I'm going to get one of those and hack at it, and maybe try to build my own from a 315 MHz transmitter module. I'm thinking the protocol is fairly simple, probably one byte of 7 or 8 bits. I observe that the remotes that I have all have a four-bit DIP switch for selecting a receiver address. If there are three bits to select the command, that's a seven-bit byte. The commands look like:

* fan hi
* fan med
* fan low
* fan off
* fan reverse
* light toggle on/off
* light dim/bright

And maybe the eighth bit is a parity bit or a stop bit, or maybe it just ignores it.

Possibly there are separate light on/off commands, but most receivers treat them both as toggle commands. I have one remote that has two light buttons, but they both toggle the light on and off. The remote appears to send the light dim/bright command when the light button is held down. That's kind of a bollocks because it means you can't set a specific light level.

 

[Desert_AIP]

I started assembling the parts for the Ed Cheung "No Hum" fan controller.

I'm going to use a UPB dimmer instead of the X-10 in the original design, and wire it as a module in a junction box in the ceiling rather than in the wall.

I have a couple of large caps from a manual fan controller I plan on using.

 

[Desert_AIP]

I started assembling the parts for the Ed Cheung "No Hum" fan controller.

I'm going to use a UPB dimmer instead of the X-10 in the original design, and wire it as a module in a junction box in the ceiling rather than in the wall.
I have a couple of large caps from a manual fan controller I plan on using.

You could use one of the contact closure modules, like the SA UMI-32.

Wire it in a junction box to get the control signals to the module.
The 2 contact closure outputs could close relays that placed additional caps in series with the fan.
Caps in series reduces the overall capacitance and reduces the speed.

So you could use a wall switch in the on off mode for on off and the high speed and send UPB commands to the module to open or close the relays to modulate the speed.