Dreo Smart Cell Fans

Entregado ayer. Me sorprende largo trayecto desde Florida, EEUU a España a través de FEDEX. El Manual Usuario está en inglés y en la web de DREO no hay en español, excepto un documento sobre el uso de los datos que recoge el ventilador que puedan llegar al fabricante. Hay videos de instalación también en inglés, ninguno en inglés y no lo entiendo porque creo que también se vende en Hispanoamérica. Veremos qué dice el electricista ya que solo habla español. Hasta ahora todo lo que he comprado ha venido de Europa y China, teniendo o no almacén en Europa. Está guardado en la caja, tomaré una decisión en un par de días, en cuanto a su devolución por falta de información en español, idioma oficial dentro de la Unión Europea. De momento lo califico con 1 estrella

Love this smart light/fan! This is my first smart light/fan combo. It works as advertised. Quiet. Has lots of fan speed, direction, and light intensity adjustments. I like the remote controller and never misplace it, but there is a phone app with additional functions. My electric bill went down after install. The install was easy. It is stable; my unit does not wobble. I recommend this fan because it is so handy and useful. A good value for the money. NOTE: Two common long screws were not included which I happened to need. I got what I needed from the local Ace Hardware.

I have a few other DREO fans that I’m impressed with so I thought I’d take a chance with this ceiling fan. This fan does not disappoint. It’s very simple to install. Once you remove the base and install it to the ceiling box mount there is a small hook you can hang the base from while you tie into the ground, hit, and neutral wires for your switch. There’s plenty of space so the electrical connection won’t be cramped while you twist the base onto the mount and screw it tight. Mine came with a collar for the mount plate to hide the screws so not sure what the other reviewers are talking about. I preferred to install the four fan blades on a work table and then bring it to the ceiling box. As far as operation goes, it’s very smooth and quiet. Was able to pair it easily to the app and control it along with my other DREO products. The remote is pretty nice and doesn’t feel too “plasticky”. The light gets bright and has a smooth to soft characteristic with many different color temperatures to choose from. Overall very happy to have this well designed and functional fan in our four bedrooms, especially during this part of the summer.

I normally don’t pay much attention to the ceiling fan over my head to be honest. However, we recently upgraded the fans in our house and I decided to give this one a try for our first room. Long story short (“yada yada yada”), we now have Dreos up in all of our rooms! It was easy to install. (As a matter of fact, I am a 50yr old woman and it freaked my father-in-law out that I took on the installation by myself, but it was so easy to follow along with the video online that it made me look smart and gave me some serious dad-in-law cred.). It is noticeably sleek in appearance, mounts flush to the ceiling, has various light temps so that you can make it match other lamps/lighting in the room, is super quiet, and generates quite a bit of air considering the size. The app is easy to use. We have a couple that have WiFi and link to the easy to use app and one that does not. Honestly, the WiFi/app is more of a luxury as we tend to just use the remote. I was concerned that the top of the mount is just white plastic, but it actually looks better once installed than I was expecting. The only minor irritation is that there seems to be a 1-2 second delay from the time I flip the wall switch until it turns on. But it also remembers my last setting, so this is not a deal breaker for me.

TLDR: Install is easy, airflow/energy spent is phenomenal, fan is attractive and everything works great. I wish it could dim more, and in my opinion the warmest setting is not nearly warm enough, especially for a bedroom. Still phenomenal value. First off, I have used Dreo products in the past. Good quality stuff. Foreign made, but always good quality, feature thoughts, and good engineering decisions. With this unit, the motor is DC, and as such is insanely efficient especially for how much air it moves. It moves a LOT of air in a bedroom (44"). Like turn it up to top speed and your loose papers will be fluttering. It also gives you the ability to slow the fan down and have pretty crazy levels of granularity on speed, not to mention running it in reverse, among other features. Combine that with the app and the quality remote, and you've got an absolute winner. Installation was easy if you're handy. If you're replacing an existing ceiling fan, most likely you've already got a standardized mount / power. The initial mount for the fan has slots to allow for fitting even on a less than perfectly spaced mount. Kill your power, 3 wire nuts (black to black, white to white, ground to ground, done). From there, there is a hook that temporarily holds the heavy motor while you wire it all up, and then get it in place and get the side screws installed. Its a bit heavy, so if you're doing it solo, it's great to be able to "UGH THIS SCREW WON'T GO IN AND MY ARM IS GONNA FALL OFF FROM HOLDING THIS MOTOR" and quickly hang it back on the hook. Recover and try again. Finally you'll get it, motor screws into base, and then you screw the blades into the motor (super easy from the design, they cut the blades in a way that made them slot perfectly to line up with the screw holes. Easy. Comes with a balancing kit, haven't needed to use it, even at full speed. Finally, plug in the LED module with clip connectors, shove it in, and you're done. Turn your power back on, test it with the remote, get it connected to the app, and bliss. Unit is exactly as described. Extremely quiet, very pretty (I got white with the fake "light wood" blades). Connection has been rock solid once paired to wifi, even after multiple power cuts. Now, the part that is a minor annoyance, but a big enough annoyance that it annoys *ME*. It may not annoy you, but this goes bother me. Overhead lighting is wonderful. It's got great spill, is not like a spotlight. In a bedroom, it's lights the room, not like a blasting beam straight down. The RGB is fun, but I will never use it except in a novelty role to show a guest "check this out". But if you want it, its functional and does cool RGB things. My gripe: The "warm" isn't anywhere close to as warm as I'd like it. I run very warm lighting in my house. My bulbs dim from 3000K to 2200K (the fancy Philipps ones) and honestly I'm a bit of a lighting snob. I run 2700K everywhere. I like my light warm. The white setting is great in the day time. I work from home, so some extra bright white/cool light is appreciated for circadian rhythm in the day. HOWEVER: At night and the WARM side of things is... far from warm my definition of warm. I used an admittedly unreliable and free kelvin meter from the app store. I measured the warmest level at 3000K, which looks exactly on point to me. Brightness levels: It gets bright enough for use in broad daylight, but AT NIGHT It doesn't get candle light dim, which for a unit with so much granular control and LED based, I would have hoped to see. Once again, I want to reiterate that I am a lighting snob, you may not even notice or care, but I do and it's annoying enough that when it's dark out, I'd rather use my floor lamps dimmed down than the Dreo due to it's brightness level and how neutral / cool the light is. Attached are screenshots of the app, the kelvin testing app, white balance adjusted photos of the LED light in question, as well as true 2700K super warm bulbs. If you read this far... just buy it. It's seriously a great unit. It's one of those "foreign made, but actually quality with a smart person pulling the strings behind the scenes for design and engineering choices". You will be hard pressed to find this much functionality for this price, and that goes for the larger units too.