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Hunter Fan Company Announces First HomeKit-Enabled Ceiling Fans
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This getting ridiculous isn't it? What's next, a refrigerator that tells me we need milk? Oh wait...
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I was JUST getting ready to post this. Welcome to AppleWorld.
yeah, when you're laying in bed half asleep and its too cold/hot, its certainly more work to get out of bed and walk across the room to the wall when you could just use your phone.
do you use a remote control for your TV? are you so lazy that you can't get up and walk up to the TV to change the channel/volume the way our parents did?
hypocrite.
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clearly you dont know Hunter fans. theyre the best in the business. my classic Hunters are decades old and still running like champs.
[doublepost=1451957137][/doublepost]so many nasty haters on this site these days with nothing better to do than bag on stuff they dont have, haven't used, or can't afford.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."
Unfortunately, your health app has already determined that you haven't burned enough calories for the day and disabled remote control of the fan in order to force you to get out of bed and walk across the room.
Sorry, my price-o-meter for anything I put in my house is "about $500". I go into just about everything expecting that lol.
only the first page into the comment section and all I see is whine whine whine whine.
That's because it's not typical to just do one thing - one fan for example. House upgrades tend to cluster (and sometimes are an excuse to spend money on something that you weren't originally going to).
I'm in. Have done the Schlage Sense and a couple Ecobee3s. Never lived anywhere with fans before and the lack of uniformity and dealing with annoying non-lit remotes... I'm over it. Plus my wife has been bugging me to get a uniform white look going - right now it's a hodgepodge.
Always liked fans with pull chains. Will miss those RIP
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And those who recognize the convenience and value of Hunter fans' support of Apple HomeKit will simply buy them, never knowing nor caring about the tortured rantings of Benjamin Frost. Poor sod. (sniff!)
Not sure you understand what a smart house is? And you don't need the internet, unless your not home. There are two things, telling your phone to turn things on and off. Like Siri, turn off all the lights as you walk out of the house. Or, tigers like, when the house reaches x temp turn on all fans. Now, with that said this seems like the last thing I would make smart in my house.
So you're saying that Siri is not recognizing your voice instructions? That would not be a HomeKit problem, but a sound problem... or an internet connection problem to Siri's servers. You think?
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Were the replacement fans upwards of $400 each?
I need a HomeKit-enabled kegerator. Someone please tap me on the shoulder when one is announced!
The fan in my loft is very high off the ground. When we need to change the direction of it it's a bit of an ordeal getting a giant pole and trying to flick that little switch on it. Remembering which direction is meant to be for summer or winter is hard enough as it is, there's lots of "can you feel it, does it feel like it's blowing air on you?". Being able to control it with an app would have been a real time saver. We'd use it more too, because the only switch for the fan is up a trek of stairs.
Consider the proliferation of switches and knobs in a home to control lighting and fans. I recently visited my sister in the states and found that the proliferation of switches was difficult to navigate, questionably placed and in some cases only operated via a missing remote.
"Sis, do you live in a level of Tomb Raider?"
"Why?"
"Because I feel like turning on the light requires that I solve a puzzle."
"Why?"
"Because I feel like turning on the light requires that I solve a puzzle."
HomeKit-type technology, as opposed to being a tool of the lazy could do a lot to bring a greater degree of control and reduce the nightmare of unlabelled switches installed by sadistic homebuilders.
What you really need is for someone to make a Home Kit enabled remote, so that you could remotely operate the remote no matter how remote the remote was. I wonder if anyone has even remotely considered this?
That's because it's not typical to just do one thing - one fan for example. House upgrades tend to cluster (and sometimes are an excuse to spend money on something that you weren't originally going to).
This is definitely true.
I might have cared if Hunter Fans weren't stuffing us around trying to get our fans fixed, of 4 fans we bought, 2 are tapping incessantly, none of the remotes work, the 3 with lights buzz horribly, only 1 of them even comes close to working properly.
We were better off with the cheaper "lesser quality" fans, sure there was a slight rubbing and motor noises, but it was FAR less irritating, and the remotes worked... 1 last hope, Big Ass Fans
We were better off with the cheaper "lesser quality" fans, sure there was a slight rubbing and motor noises, but it was FAR less irritating, and the remotes worked... 1 last hope, Big Ass Fans
The era of the "internet of things" is becoming a disappointment. Homekit is doing nothing but enabling mediocrity in the home.
I'm glad that the industry leaves people like yourself behind. We have a relatively large master bedroom and especially in the summer it is nice to adjust the fan together with the [anti-luddite-alert]air-conditioning with an app controlled thermostat[/anti-luddite-alert], instead of having to get up, go downstairs, adjust the thermostat, come back up, adjust the fan and get back into bed. Of course one could argue that it IS convenient, but I can't see anything wrong with adding some convenience, when possible. The conclusion of people being "lazy bones" because of those developments is your typical hyperbole and useless - and irrelevant
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Hypocrisy? Please.
I'm sure I'm not the only one to see the irony of Apple selling things like the Apple Watch and the Health app, which are all about standing up and getting more exercise, yet in the same breath, are promoting things like HomeKit, which are all about doing the exact opposite.
I guess Apple want us to buy HomeKit stuff to get us fat, so that we have to buy the Apple Watch as well in order to work off the fat. I’ll just buy neither and save the money; it's the same outcome.