Review on Treatlife Smart Ceiling Fan Control: 4-Speed Switch, Works with Alexa and Google Assistant, Remote Control, Schedule, No Hub Required by Walter Hunter

So this was exactly what I was looking for. The ceiling fan in our living room has no light and I was about to order a fan/light switch but I checked the TreatLife website and found that it only has a fan switch. Easy to install but yes you need a neutral wire. So the neutral wire is NOT a ground wire and is not one of the two wires you would normally see on a switch (that is the load = light, outlet etc. and also the live wire). Neutrals are a bunch of white wires, 99% of the time they don't connect to a switch or outlet, just completely covered with a nut. Definitely, once I flipped the switch back on and opened the TreatLife app or the SmartLife app (whatever, but I've been using TreatLife so I can only talk about that) and told it to add the device, found he IMMEDIATELY the switch . You then connect the Switch to your WiFi, and WHILE this process continues, Alexa has informed me that she has found a new Treatlife Skill device (which I have already added and linked to my TreatLife account). Working with a third-party remote control. A: My fan has a third remote in the canopy, but the purpose of switching to that switch was to make it voice controlled and get rid of that clunky fan remote. The description of this switch says it doesn't work with fans that have a built in remote control, but it does work when built into the fan itself. I'm talking about the white box that you need to install by yourself when you install the fan. Older fans came with these remotes, but they're not the same as modern fans that have them built in. So if you equip one of these white boxes with a fan, you can use this switch. But here's the key, the first thing that struck me was that using the wall switch for my fan was turning it on and off (actually turning it off or fast) while the old remote was set to run the fan. If the fan was off on the old remote, the switch didn't do anything. So I used the old remote and turned on the fan at full power. Then I took the batteries out of the remote and put them away for storage. Now the fan turned on and off at the switch. I set the TreatLife switch, let Alexa find it, and now I have a voice controlled fan. You can also remove the white remote control box in the fan shroud, but mine is 20ft off the ground and took 3 hours to install (vertigo, fan on 4ft extension, afraid of heights) so I won't remove it. Alexa has a fan speed of 1 to 4, but you have to say "Alexa, turn the fan to #" for it to work. Using Siri. If you don't have Alexa, you can still use Siri. The TreatLife App allows you to create Click to Start buttons within the TreatLife App. Once this button is created, you can add it to Siri. Once added to Siri, you can now have an iOS shortcut button (quick access app) that you can add as a widget or use with Siri voice control. Siri has no way of setting up fan control, so create multiple tap-to-run buttons in Treatlife that set the fan to different speeds, and then have a Siri shortcut or command for each. You just have to name them "Fan 1", "Fan 2" etc in Treatlife, so just say "Siri, Fan 2" and it will set the fan to 2. Google Assistant lets you do that, but I don't have a Google Homepod (or whatever they're called) and since I have an iPhone, I don't use Google Assistant even though I have it installed. I've been playing around with this and as soon as Google Assistant connects to TreatLife it shows your devices.