I can't edit my previous review, so here are some updated thoughts. Things I like: I bought two of these. They work with Zigbee-based smart home solutions (Hubitat, Smartthings, Wink). Responds to Google Assistant which is great when I am half-asleep in a dark room. They're priced attractively with the discount, and uses standard AAA batteries (Hunter remote uses a weird size that cost $10 to replace) in the remote. The remote works well for family members who do not know how to control via smart home. Zigbee signal strength has been discussed extensively on smart home forums for this device and the consensus is that it's not great. However in my experience they never gave me any trouble as long as you installed the antenna attached to the ceiling outside the canopy (see photo). Since the controller's big end can only be located opposite the socket of the hanging bracket of the fan, you may wish to plan out the install if the antenna appearance bothers you. Otherwise, you can install a Zigbee repeater in the same room or DYI replace the antenna. The remote antenna wire (long black) seems to work fine located within the canopy. The instructions for pairing with smart home are really sparse. You need to power cycle the device at 3-second intervals 10 times (5 on-off cycles) and do this precisely with a stopwatch. The lights will not flash UNTIL you enter pairing mode on your hub and it successfully connects. Lastly but perhaps most importantly, do not ever use these with any sort of dimmer switch. One of the controllers was connected to a dimmer for the prior fixture and it misbehaved (fan humming, lights strobing, wrong intensity at settings, etc.) until I took a multimeter to it and discovered it was spitting out random voltages. I never thought this would be a problem since I always left the dimmer on max. A $2 regular switch resolved all issues. Kudos for the dimmer not breaking the controller in the month or two that I had it installed.

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