![]() I don’t mean to come off needlessly resistant to the many options you suggested - I sincerely appreciate it (and the discussion)! I’m just not willing to give up the fight for a simple, inexpensive mechanical switch tower fan just yet. While I’m not too keen on using a SwitchBot to address my tower fan search, I am going to buy one to play with and probably apply to other devices in my home that can’t be made smart any better way. It definitely addresses a common smart home problem. Option 3 is another version of Option 2 (added expense, complexity, Rube Goldberg-esque solution), but it is super cool! I haven’t come across SwitchBot before. This option is a great representation of the Rube Goldberg stereotype of what a smart home nightmare looks like haha! Using a “dumb fan” on a smart outlet is so much “cleaner” for those already setup with SmartThings. ![]() Option 2 is a lot of extra work (inconvenient) and requires additional equipment (cost). Option 1 might work for some folks - it’s a viable option - but it’s double the cost (and those specific options aren’t “tower fans”) ![]() As the easiest, least expensive option for making a “smart tower fan” with SmartThings, I thought it to be a useful PSA to at least put this out there for others who might turn up this thread while Googling (like I did) But the topic is still relevant and “unresolved.” From my point of view, there’s basically one low-cost (~$40) mechanical switch Tower Fan available on Amazon (that I could find) and it has a pretty bad track record for quality. Hey - I appreciate the detailed reply and additional info. The following would probably work, although I haven’t actually tested these, and again, right now, September 2020, the smartthings/alexa integration is broken. ![]() This will not require buying any additional devices except the fan itself. if you can find a fan that works with Alexa, and assuming that smartthings does in fact fix the SmartThings/Alexa integration which is currently broken (smartthings engineering is aware of the problem and is working on it), then you may be able to use an Alexa routine (not a smartthings routine) for integration. You will not need a smart plug: these methods work with the fan itself. All of these involve using the fan’s own shutdown and restart mechanisms, not just killing the power, so they should be easier on the fan mechanism. Most significantly, there are now three other possibilities for integration which may work for you. That’s good information, but you are replying to a thread which is four years old and quite a bit has changed in that time. ![]()
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