good morning YouTube in this video I'll show you how I use z-wave to add a combination exhaust
fan ceiling and nightlight to a bathroom that had only a single switch and wire running up
to the attic this was the project that got me into home automation for a little background
my house was built in the mid 50's back then an opening window in the bathroom was deemed
sufficient ventilation it works fine in the summer when you can leave that window open
but in cold weather the window stays closed and the humidity builds up I'm currently working on
stripping back the peeling paint and repairing some moisture damage up there a few years back
I started cleaning up my attic space and made it more accessible after gaining access to that
area over the bathroom I decided to add a real exhaust fan in place of the old heat lamp that
used to be there I found this nice Panasonic whisper light fan that included a ceiling light
and nightlight but I was faced with a single wall switch and one wire that ran up to that
existing heat lamp so I found a top-of-the-line panasonic model that included a built-in humidity
sensor for the fan a motion sensor for the light and a light sensor for the nightlight
with that unit one wire for power would do it the only problem was the cost about $400 each
and I had two bathrooms to do so I waited to see if I could find the fan units on sale and
one week I thought I found them on Amazon for about half price I ordered a pair and set them
aside till I was ready to install the first one some months later I unboxed one fan and checked
the instructions it talked about how to enable the automated controls I open asked the fan to
do that and there was nothing inside but three pair of wires and then looking more closely I
saw that I ordered the fans I had purchased the non automated versions the part numbers
differ by only one letter F V 11 v ql v vs f v 11 b QC l v and actually the current version of
this fan the v is changed to a 6 i considered returning the fans although it had been over
6 months since i received them but with money i saved it looked like i could purchase a simple
home automation system and use that to control the fan and lights i found a nice thread on the
via user forum on this very topic complete with programming details so i pulled the trigger and
ordered some parts I got the Veera light that I described in a previous video plus this 4 and 1
humidity temperature light and motion sensor from AO tech and then some z-wave appliance switches
from GE and as mentioned in the earlier video there's a bit of a learning curve with a home
automation controller and setting it up to do more than rudimentary operations yeah so this
was the thread I found on the Veera user forum and it shows how to set up your motion controller a
nightlight and have the light sensor in there and a pretty good discussion on this and so it took me
a few weeks to get the hang of things to begin to wrap my head around the event-driven nature
of the Neos and loop programming environment so I ended up using the program logic event generator
application which is available on the me Casa Verde App Store and that's a really powerful
tool you can see there's some information on it so in the next segment of this video series I'll show
you how I connected all these devices I've got my program logic event generator right here I've
got the motion sensor light sensor humidity and temperature sensors from the four-in-one sensor
from a otech I've got my ceiling light nightlight and fan z-wave switches here and then I also added
a wall switch to allow for manual control so I'll show you how those are all automated in the next
video if you have any questions put that in the comment section below or on Google+ I'll put this
in my home automation playlist so you can check out some other videos there on that same subject
be sure to rate and share this video if you found it interesting and as always thanks for watching