I'm a big fan (har har) of using fans to regulate temperatures in rooms and have experience with two different brands.
From my research, most fans at this point are DC motored and require continuous power, so you can't control them with a wall switch. Fortunately, many fans now come with integreated Wi-Fi to control them with an app, and, Home Assistant has support for many fan brands.
To have control at a wall switch location, I use a Z-Wave smart controller to then control scenes that turn the fan's light and the fan itself on/off.
I ultimately recommend Modern Forms fans given wider variety of styles.
- We have a series of Aviator and Aviator 5 in both downrod and flush configurations.
- Overall, the brand has a wide variety of fan and lighting configurations to match a wide variety of styles/asthetics.
- Installation is relatively straightforward and easy and can be DIY'ed.
- We had a series of Haiku-L fans that worked decently well.
- The customer service was good and helped resolve an issue I was having with the LED module.
- There's two different generations of Haiku-L with slight cosmetic and assembly differences. If you're ordering all your fans at once, this shouldn't be a problem, but, if you're adding/replacing fans over time, you may get two different generations of fans as I don't think retailers differentiate.
- There's a lot of SKUs for the same fans across different retailers with different pricing, making it hard to know for sure what you're getting without diligent decoding.