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Post by becausecanadia on Apr 24, 2015 19:15:48 GMT -5
Pretty cool concept but im not about to dump $400 on a POS fan to play with the Simple connect for half an hour and delete it.
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Post by Max C. on Apr 25, 2015 22:44:48 GMT -5
Back to the topic of the control itself, is the app compatible with Android? Pretty cool concept but im not about to dump $400 on a POS fan to play with the Simple connect for half an hour and delete it. Post of the week goes to you Mitch! |
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Post by Jordan U on Apr 26, 2015 21:13:33 GMT -5
Back to the topic of the control itself, is the app compatible with Android? Pretty cool concept but im not about to dump $400 on a POS fan to play with the Simple connect for half an hour and delete it. Post of the week goes to you Mitch! You don't need to buy a new Hunter fan to use this,, it works on any fan (supposedly anyways). But still, I'd probably take the same approach as you with this contraption  |
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Post by Cole S. on Apr 26, 2015 22:42:05 GMT -5
App is available for Android.
Yeah you're not spending $400, nowhere near it. You can put it on any fan from any brand, at least any fan you can get the receiver to fit into whether it be in the canopy or in the motor housing. The price finally seems to be set, it's at $89.99 on Amazon currently. They're undercutting Fanimation by about $10, but no full function remote like fanSync has. However, the Hunter version has way more scheduling capability so it's kind of a tradeoff there.
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Post by Jordan U on Apr 27, 2015 6:48:06 GMT -5
Wow that's expensive! Definitely more than I'd want to pay for a fan control. I thought it would only be around $50.
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Post by Cole S. on Apr 28, 2015 22:32:46 GMT -5
I'm not surprised by anything less than $100. The people who have any interest in this kind of thing will easily pay that kind of price for it, you don't have interest so you're not going to pay it. |
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Post by Jordan U on Apr 29, 2015 9:55:40 GMT -5
I'm not surprised by anything less than $100. The people who have any interest in this kind of thing will easily pay that kind of price for it, you don't have interest so you're not going to pay it. That's a good point, applies to a lot of things actually However, even from a technical standpoint and my opinion aside, they're making a lot of profit off of it. There's no way the relatively basic components in that thing cost nearly that much to buy and manufacture. Is the app itself free? |
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Post by Cole S. on Apr 29, 2015 15:29:17 GMT -5
Profit is the whole point lol, fishing for business from the technology aficionados. They wouldn't bother if there wasn't a huge profit margin, we all of course know that about Hunter already. I don't always see that as a bad thing on their part, it does force them push boundaries sometimes.
The apps for any of the current fan systems (SIMPLEconnect, fanSync, SenseME) are free.
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Post by Jordan U on May 1, 2015 15:10:57 GMT -5
This is true, the era where companies try to make a good product and satisfied customers over profit is long gone.
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