Flair - Climate Control

I’m about ready to give up and just use the minisplit controller. The geofencing isn’t worth this. The idea is to _save_ energy. The interface just doesn’t look like an iOS app. That said, it has geofencing and scheduling. It’s not even hard to figure out, just aesthetically unsatisfying. It needs HomeKit integration. I want it to be part of my wake-up and go to bed routines. It’s supposed to automatically switch between heat and cool; but it doesn’t have two set points (heat to 66, cool to 78 for example, as I did with my old thermostat), so it’s not useful.

Please add a scheduled manual mode. Current software makes the hardware useless.

The vents, puck, and app work well. I can’t recommend this yet because there is no local control. Everything goes through Flair’s external service which, if it goes down or Flair goes out of business, will render this system useless. HomeKit integration would be a step in the right direction. Allowing home assistant users to talk locally to the puck would be the optimal solution. Worst case scenario the vents come apart easily and you could solder a microcontroller to the existing motor. Flair should really get Matter integration working if they want to be the undisputed champion of smart DIY HVAC. For now, if anyone else comes along and offers zigbee, zwave, or even a Shelly-like API attached to a motorized vent, I’ll switch to them in a heartbeat.

It works.

I have researched smart vents for 5 years. I finally found Flair and all the information was promising. I wanted vents to remotely control various room temperature by automatically opening and closing vent to redirect airflow as required. The larger your home or work place the more efficiently they work. I only wanted to close off three rooms when not in use. I also wanted these rooms to be comfortable when guests were using them. I finally found the answer through Flair products. They have the variety of products that allow you to build your system as needed or just count your vents and order them all. Their customer support is awesome so if you need any help with design or products they have you covered.

Astoundingly bad software. Bad logic and interaction with ecobee along with being unreliable. As of today, the app will not even load.

I’m an AC contractor that installed the smart vents for a customer. The support team helped me set up and answered all questions to help make it smooth. They were able to remotely tighten the air seal of the vents👍🏻

The interface just doesn’t look like an iOS app. That said, it has geofencing and scheduling. It’s not even hard to figure out, just aesthetically unsatisfying. It needs HomeKit integration. I want it to be part of my wake-up and go to bed routines. It’s supposed to automatically switch between heat and cool; but it doesn’t have two set points (heat to 66, cool to 78 for example, as I did with my old thermostat), so it’s not useful. It really is impressive how much it does for the price, but I’d encourage them move to a better aesthetic and build quality.

App does not display correctly on iPhone 14/15, as the buttons to go back are not really in the usable space above by the island. So the scaling needs to be fixed. It also would be nice, at a glance on the main view, to be able to see if the vents are open or close for all the rooms, rather than needing to click in to each room individually just to see open or closed status. (Even a colored dot next to the temperature for the room could indicate open or closed). Then if you ‘can’ click the back button, it resets the view so you have to scroll all the way down to whatever room you were viewing rather than going back to where you were in the app. Like most reviews state, the app seems like an afterthought even though it really should drive the product.

iPhone app is still functional, but app hangs on initial load screen on iPad. Also, despite showing pucks as offline, there appears to be no help to actually diagnose or fix the issue, making the pucks significantly less useful since they don’t have a great interface outside the app, so now have to be manually controlled, offering less functionality than our portable remote.