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Fan entities with preset modes

Fans · Climate

Partly worksApple Home issues

1 report: 1 says it partly works.

Reported on r/homeassistant.

What people report

IntegrationIn Home AssistantIn Apple HomeWhat they saidSource
Not namedPartly worksPartly in Home
Preset modes appear as extra unnamed switches cluttering the fan
Maintainers did not change; users still bothered
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The problem I added a fan to Apple Home app and found the bridge grouped a few non-descriptive switches with the fan. Upon researching, I realized this is a feature added in #45962 by @bdraco to expose all available present modes from the fan to HomeKit. (Aside: I didn't dig deeper into why the names of the switches are non-descriptive; it seems that the code did try to make them descriptive.) While I value @bdraco's contribution and respect his code ownership, this doesn't feel like a proper default behavior. The switches clutter the views in the Home app, and they are impossible to remove …

Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23.

Issue #132024 · 2024-12

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