Haiku Smart Ceiling Fan Review

[@carpii]

Love the look of it, but I wish it had a socket I could put a Hue bulb in

[@Jjcoolstuff]

TheGamingArt thanks for kindly educating me on HomeKit upgradeability. This video has been updated to correct the mistake you pointed out. I really appreciate it!

[@jeffreyrobinson7215]

My only issue with it is the price, i think it looks nice, as this technology becomes more frequent, the price will certainly go down

[@Jjcoolstuff]

+Randomness For fun yeah, hopefully it will continue to come down. However, a lot of the cost is wrapped up in the premium materials as well.

[@mitch5800]

3 years later: higher price

[@elisscaliving4776]

@@mitch5800 lol

[@matthewmena6390]

very helpful and wonderful description of all details

[@OnTVaustralia]

Thanks for the great video. Does the whoosh mode allow you to set the upper and lower fan speed?

[@Jjcoolstuff]

No it doesn’t. But it’s still a neat feature to vary the speed briefly to simulate a breeze.

[@aidanwhittaker6315]

thx for making this vid its going to help for my parents buying the fan

[@Jjcoolstuff]

Great! I’m glad to hear that.

[@j.dunbar5004]

Current Price - $1950 with no light, wood, 52", indoor. 🫤

[@swampwiz]

I like the idea - however, I like to be able to adjust a fan & its light from a wall location. Is there such a wall-based control system?

[@Jjcoolstuff]

The fan comes with a remote control that you can mount in a holder on the wall. You can also add a wireless wall control as well that’s more fixed. store.bigassfans.com/en_us/i6-es6-bluetooth-wall-controller

[@JBoy340a]

Nice Review. Well done and through. I have no played with the app much, and appreciate that you did such a great job going over the features. I have L series fan and love it. So much that I order a Lux series unit for another room. Beautiful fan. Silent and vibration free even at high speeds. And the Alexa integration is great. I leave the remote in the drawer and just walk in the room and say "Alexa turn on the fan". "Alexa turn on the light", "Alexa turn the fan speed to 5", etc. Next I have to hook it up to the Ecobee 3. Does it utilize the Ecobee remote sensors?

[@Jjcoolstuff]

+jerry kurata thanks for the comment! I got an Echo recently, which I featured in the Haiku light review, and I’ve really enjoyed the functionality that it enables with the Haiku products. I wish I would have had that for the fan review. With ecobee, neither use each other’s sensors. It does allow the fan to know what temperature you’re trying to achieve in the room and to speed up or slow down depending on what the actual temperature is. Pretty handy.

[@no_handle_required]

For that money, it better come with a personal fan slave.

[@Jjcoolstuff]

userbosco thanks for the encouragement on the review. This is what Haiku has to say about mounting in damp locations: "If your fan will be in a covered outdoor space, you’ll need a composite or aluminum fan. All Haiku fans can be installed indoors, but only our composite and aluminum finishes are damp rated. These fans can be installed in covered outdoor spaces like patios and gazebos. Haiku fans should not be installed in open outdoor areas."

[@simpleinseattle]

Did you know that you are the only resource I've seen about pairing a Haiku with an Ecobee3? Can you create a separate video on that process?

[@Jjcoolstuff]

+simpleinseattle interesting. Once the Haiku and ecobee are paired there's nothing else to do. Whenever your ecobee is in heat mode the Haiku fan uses smarter heating mode and when the ecobee is in cool mode the Haiku uses smarter cooling. If you run your ecobee in auto mode then the fan will switch back and forth accordingly depending on what the ecobee is doing. It's a great system!

[@4rdzlla]

What color are those blades

[@eldomiche]

Where is the fan made at? ie country

[@lazymations1778]

Fun fact cheapest fan in my country is a industrial for 50bucks that will have a quilt motor but is fast and cools well

[@xxboxxxx2344]

Hi, can I check with you. How are the wind distribution ? Is it concentrate just underneath the fan? Is there any wind feel when you standing just under the blade tip?

[@paulaward2949]

How do I set the Fresh care Cycle on My LG 5.2 CU FT front load washer

[@AndrizzleCheck]

I am confused. The LED light color/temperature on the fan cannot be adjusted, but the same light as a stand-alone light can be adjusted? The part at 5:00 is what I am referring to.

[@Jjcoolstuff]

Yes, the fan light came out first and the standalone light was newer and therefore had more functionality. The rumor was they were going to update the fan light at some point to a light that can adjust color temp but I don’t think that’s happened. They also have stopped selling the stand alone lights and plan to re-enter that market at some point in the future. That’s a bummer too because I like those lights a lot!

[@AndrizzleCheck]

@@Jjcoolstuff Thank you for the clarification. Yes, I want one of these fans, but if I cannot change the color away from the dated "yellow" look, well then that is a major bummer.

[@Tracertme]

Using all these devices with their own software is really limiting their integration capabilities, the fans do now work with HomeKit if you use an independent gateway, however that might not include every native function available.

[@jeffd8672]

considering a driftwood vs regular aluminum any comments

[@michaelbell1223]

Are you in Hawaii?

[@Jjcoolstuff]

No, but I’ve always wanted to visit there.

[@avalon1954miko]

love your shirt

[@Jjcoolstuff]

Thanks! I try to give hints in my videos about upcoming videos I’m working on. That was my nod toward the treehouse series I did shortly after that.

[@davidbeiler6364]

would be nice to see the integration with amazon echo...

[@Jjcoolstuff]

+David Beiler agreed. Unfortunately I didn't have an echo at the time. I do now and it works really well. I briefly demoed it in my Haiku light review if you haven't seen that. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2rQgKF8bctng5o You can adjust the light brightness and the fan speed by voice. Pretty slick.

[@tarnesh88]

What other smart thermostats works with the fan.

[@Jjcoolstuff]

To my knowledge they only work with ecobee. If you’re not familiar with ecobee I have a review of the ecobee 3 and ecobee 4 thermostats on my channel if you’re interested. They’re great thermostats.

[@Jjcoolstuff]

I was on Haiku’s website recently and it turns out they now work with Nest as well. www.haikuhome.com/partners

[@sofiasingh7630]

How to do it teach me how to do the fan

[@dynasty4851]

I hope you don't have no old beat up Air Conditioning unit on your house with that smart fan and thermostat. Most people love getting a smart thermostat without getting a new Air Conditioning unit.

[@lionlocks5910]

LOL completely silent except for the 2 i had to change out because of grinding sounds.

[@heroknaderi]

what is the max rpms just cirious

[@danariusm.4283]

I wonder if they ever going to make the lights on the fan brighter.

[@Jjcoolstuff]

+Danarius M. The light is really bright as is but it's very directional. The standalone light has a lot more LEDs and is brighter. It wouldn't surprise me if they included some of that technology in their fan lights at some point.

[@jmohd]

Bought 3 about 4yrs ago. Now 1 kaput...cannot start.

[@Jjcoolstuff]

Have you followed up with them on the lifetime warranty? They should make it right.

[@jmohd]

@@Jjcoolstuff Warranty is over. Replaced the electrical set inside the fan costing about 133 USD. The fan is working now. Thx

[@bensgoofyahhfancollection9997]

Not me finding one on the side of the road

[@keithnichols7926]

I have a 40-year-old Hunter two-speed ceiling fan that does well with my air-conditioning and makes a room livable when the air temp is 80 degrees F. Without the fan, that temp is rather uncomfortable. If global warming increases as expected, Alaskans will be installing ceiling fans in igloos.

[@acommentator69]

How much is it??

[@Jjcoolstuff]

+A Commentator check out the video at 7:20 where I cover that.

[@Sunnyoznorth]

looking for just that Haiku fan but i want the ability to change the pitch of the blades in some cases I want high pitch and very low speed and visa versa but no one seems to have the brains and ingenuity on such a basic feature as well as reverse or pitch change is the same do you know and understand why you would reverse flow with the pitch on heat airflow dynamics, obviously NOT

[@y0bc0]

I am gay and this is emotionale

[@cullintikac5268]

spleen pirate same

[@nsbioy]

Cromulent

[@jacobsolomon8661]

I was really hoping there was a camera in the middle.

[@tripjet999]

"On its brightest setting, it's on par with a 75-watt incandescent bulb." Uh, oh, LOOK OUT! You may be blinded! What a JOKE! We have FOUR LED bulbs (1600 lumens each) in our ceiling fan light, which really brighten up the place.

[@Jjcoolstuff]

Yeah, you can definitely get brighter lights. That’s not what they were going for. This is 1280 lumens but looks really slick and will last a very long time.

[@gman5986]

Just too expensive. I mean how could I afford to by my Tesla?

[@Jjcoolstuff]

+G man buy the Tesla first and then use the money you save in gas to buy the fan. 😉

[@nameless5r]

Only $1200

[@mrksdlx]

The price is just brutal and while I am more than willing to pay a premium for premium products, $600 is just not justifiable for me. If you are looking to just automize a ceiling fan, consider a smart light switch for $30 and hook it up to that.

[@Jjcoolstuff]

+Markus Frohlich did you make it all the way through the video? There are so many more features than what a smart light switch can provide. Like scheduling the fan speed or light brightness. Better yet, dynamically changing the fan speed based on the temperature in the room. It is a pricey fan, but a $30 smart light switch definitely won't even begin to touch what you get from this fan.

[@mrksdlx]

I have seen the whole video and I like it in and of itself. As stated above, however, I am merely interested in automizing the fan so I can control it with the echo. I am not saying this is a bad product, but for what I am looking for, it's just not feasible.

[@Jjcoolstuff]

+Markus Frohlich thanks, I partially misunderstood your comment then. It's probably not worth the price to you, but with this fan you can not only turn the fan and/or light on and off with the Echo but you can also control the brightness and the fan speed. Pretty slick.

[@titaniummaster1532]

$1000.00

[@ShawneeUnion]

Too many fanboys in the comments

[@Jjcoolstuff]

I see what you did there 👏

[@joelbranscum7997]

1600 and light isnt included lol

[@micahluckett8456]

C

[@mbiker7]

Way overpriced. If it was $200-300. It would be worth it.

[@Jjcoolstuff]

+mbiker7 I thought so too at first. But there's no way you're making this kind of quality product in the US and standing behind it like they do for only $200-300. Just a nice normal ceiling fan is around $200. I do wish they could figure out how to make them a little cheaper and open this up to a wider customer base.

[@bex85xx]

mbiker7 ,

[@minigiant8998]

fans dont cool rooms, they actually heat it up because of the motor. so not sure how it works with thermostats...

[@Jjcoolstuff]

With a really efficient motor, the heat generated isn’t significant. However, you’re correct that fans don’t cool rooms. What they do is make you feel cooler by moving air across your skin. Similar to the normal temp outside and the “real feel”. The fan interacts with the thermostat to know what the temp is in the room and what you would like the temp to be. If the temp is rising and you’d prefer it be cooler, the fan will increase speed to help you feel cooler, not to actually lower the temp in the room necessarily. Though one could argue that when the fan picks up speed it moves the warmer air from near the ceiling and allows it to be better processed by the HVAC to actually cool the room better.

[@enzoperruccio]

An air conditioner costs less, performs better and can also heat up/dehumidify a room. There's no reason for this expensive and gimmicky fan to exist.

[@nsbioy]

Lol

[@OMGWTFLOLSMH]

I just bought a similar looking GE fan with an LED light, on sale from Costco for $100. It isn't silent and it isn't smart, but for the difference in price, and the fact I only want to use it on hot summer nights, I will cope without a Haiku fan.

[@Jjcoolstuff]

+OMGWTFLOL yeah, it’s certainly not for everyone. Gotta love those Costco deals!