Gadgetory

the Haiku ceiling fan from big a solutions is a gorgeous and expensive luxury with perfect balance and aerofoil shaped bamboo blade smart features are part of the pitch to them you can control it from your phone or automate it using built-in climate and motion sensors on top of that you'll soon be able to control it using voice commands with Alexa Amazons and virtual assistant so here's what I climbed up here to ask is a smart ceiling fan like this one really worth it now there aren't actually a lot of smart ceiling fan options the haiku here is one of the first there's also one from Hunter that works with home kit these fans are really nice fans or expensive luxury fans in their own right before you add the smart since so that's not the reason they're so expensive and that's kind of a problem you don't have a lot of low end options don't have any competition so if you want to get a smart ceiling fan you're gonna need to buy this luxury haiku one or that nice under home kid fan now for the money with the haiku you're getting a fan that you can automate with app controls on your phone or those building climate sensors I mentioned there are also little extra settings in the app you can set it to whoosh mode where it'll automatically simulate a breeze by altering the speed you can set a sleep mode wherein a lot of management work during the night to keep you cool without waking you up it's pretty neat fan of some new features it's also a certified works with nest gadget so it can work with your thermostat to help cool your home more effectively and efficiently of course we don't have a nest thermostat installed on the smart home right now we switched over to the eco v3 the Eco p3 has remote sensors that keep track of the temperature in specific rooms and then around that room specific setting absolutely the same thing the fans doing it's using its built-in sensors to take the temperature in the room and then cool effectively to that point one of the reasons we went with the Haiku here in the scene that smart home is because we wanted to test out its ability to work with the LexA that will come on April 28th when the Haiku home alexis skill arrives in the Alexa app at that point we'll be able to ask Alexa to turn the fan on or off or speed up or down or dim up and down the light that's built into the fan at this point smart ceiling fans aren't that affordable the only models or luxury ones like these so kind of have to want that sort of nice luxury centerpiece with a designer finish and the airfoil blades in order to get one but if that's not what you want or that's not what you want to spend then you're kind of out of luck right now we'll keep testing it out and let you know what we think with our full review later this month