Flair Smart Vent 4x10 (White), AC Vent Cover for Floors, Walls and Ceilings.…

For some reason they seem to want everyone to use batteries with these (not sure why you'd want to mess with unscrewing the cover and replacing them, no matter how infrequently), and neglect to mention until you receive the item and look at the manual that for wired operation it requires a 24V AC adapter/transformer plug. It's not convenient to have to go back and order more products after I've received the vents; they need to make this clear in the product info. Also of note is that one 24V AC adapter can power up to 10 smart vents, and the polarity is not important, according to the manual. I hooked up one 24V AC adapter to both of my vents connected in parallel wiring, which was simple enough to do. Just needed to strip and cut the ends of the adapter cord and connect one wire from each of the wires on the adapter to each vent using wire connectors that you crush with pliers to secure. The setup where I live is that there is a regular (non-"smart") thermostat upstairs controlling the HVAC of the house, and in the basement (where it routinely gets quite hot due to 2 PCs and 3 stereo receivers and TV running most of the time), the 2 smart vents, which I hope will help cool it off in the fall/winter here by closing off the heat when it's warm enough already in the room. It works great through the app or website to open and close the vents remotely; currently I don't yet have the necessary thermostat though. It's not the most clear from the description what is needed to make the system work, but I'm going to order an inexpensive Honeywell smart thermostat (RTH6580WF) to hopefully make them work automatically soon. I now have the 2 smart vents, Flair bridge (which is apparently always necessary), and Honeywell room sensor (model FBA C7189R1004). Apparently the room sensor isn't enough to control the system; an actual smart thermostat is needed and room sensors probably add on to that for individual room temps.

I waited way too long to purchase my Flair vent system as I was leaning towards a zoned duct control system instead. The costs would have been significantly higher (up to 5 times more in parts alone) but also the install would have been a major pain for me to DIY. The Flair vents were easy to install, the app setup was straightforward with the light layout on the vents used to identify which ones were for which rooms. I love that I can set the schedule to deactivate rooms when they are not in use and have it regulate the temperature in the active ones during those days/times. I did mess up a setting by changing the Default Hold Duration setting to forever (supposed to be the default option Until Next Scheduled Event) which caused my schedule not to work but Flair support got this identified and resolved quickly. I now have everything how I want it and the room leveling is perfect (was up to 5-6 degrees difference in some rooms). It is also awesome to be able to change the temperature on-demand in the rooms when needed. So far I am very happy with my purchase, but wish I had done this sooner.

Having run these vents for over a year now (since September 2022), I've found their functionality to be reliable. A rating of this product with only one star seems unfair and likely stem from a misunderstanding of its technical capabilities and intended function. The basic functionality of the vents is to shut off a room from being heated or cooled. They respond to trigger temperatures, and this will open or close the valve automatically. The vents lack a built-in temperature sensor and need a Flair Puck (available from Flair) or the temperature sensors of the thermostat (in my case Ecobee). Successful operation requires a Flair Puck (as gateway) and a robust Wi-Fi connection. Overall, I found that the Vents/Puck installation does not require an above average technical understanding (though some technical familiarity is necessary). What is very counter intuitive is the app settings. It is clearly made by engineers and is not very user friendly. The software doesn't feel very mature yet. A couple of items which helped me get the system to do what I want. This is for a home with a smart thermostat: 1) After integration of your smart thermostat go to 'home settings/thermostats' and turn off 'Allow flair to adjust thermostat'. The scheduling and temp control of the flair system is significantly less sophisticated than your smart thermostat and you want to prevent this app from overriding your home settings. 2) Stay in 'home setting' and go to the 'System' section. Set 'Set point controller' to 'Thermostat'. Same reason as point 1 3) Only create rooms in the app where you have Flair Vents. I installed Flair vents in rooms which I want to close off from my forced air heating/cooling system when not occupied (I have a larger house 6000 sq.ft.). You will need to have a temp sensor in each of these rooms, either a Puck or a thermostat sensor. The flair Puck is 2x the price of an Ecobee sensor, so it was an easy choice for me. Zones are created automatically by the flair app when you complete the smart thermostat integration. I have two zones as I have two Ecobees in my home. 4) Get a cup of coffee and patiently start making the schedules per room/room group/zone. It is a tedious affair. I had to make one for the winter and one for the summer as Flair works with a single trigger value for both cooling and heating. Normally your trigger temperature for cooling is set higher than your trigger temperature for heating, so a single trigger value didn’t work for me. Set ‘Mode’ to ‘Auto’, the flair system will detect whether the system is heating or cooling, prompting Flair to adjust the open/close action accordingly. 5) Go to 'Device settings' and turn off 'Push notifications' and 'Geofencing'. These functions are redundant when using a smart thermostat. 6) I would recommend to not install Smart vents in Bathrooms. I learned this after my install. You want Bathrooms to be warm. In the winter, the vent has to be all open to let the heat in, in summer fully closed to keep the cold AC out. This can easily be done by a regular (mechanical) vent, which you open/close before the summer and winter period. The issue with using smart vents is that the APP will open vents to ensure a minimum of vents are open to safeguard your AC system. Unfortunately you can not dictate which of the smart vents it will open (or keep closed). This results in frequent freezing bathrooms. Also, the Smart vents are not able to provide a 100% closed vent. The system works great and does what I intended it to do. The flair engineers created an over complicated app by inserting features which are (and should only be) controlled by your smart thermostat. Turn that off. The scheduling is tedious, but you will need to do it to get the max out of your flair system. Best of luck in your implementation! -----###----- Edit: I have been running my system without the bridge for years without any issues. I'm adding this comment because I believe the Flair marketing of the new bridge device is misleading. It suggests you need the device even if you have a solid home Wi-Fi network, which is incorrect. Be aware that this system is cloud based (not sure why) so Flair severs are required to operate the system. If your Internet down so are your vents (open in case of lost connectivity). Even worse if Flair goes out of business your system is inoperable. An alternative to Flair vents are vents from "Keen home". Have a look, read the reviews and make your pick.

Flair 100% missed the mark with the vent cover. Our 6x10 units measure 7x12 to the outside. That's only 1/2 an inch of gap coverage vertically. They didn't cover a single opening completely on any of our 15 vents. Super frustrating. I have to make backer plates for all of these. Out of 5 vents I purchased, 2 wouldn't power on right out of the box. I tried reinstalling the battery covers multiple times. Nothing would happen. The app leaves a lot to be desired. You can set all kinds of things, but with the integration to our ecobee thermostat you really have no idea what the system is doing. I got these because we have a newborn and her room is cold. We set the thermostat to 72, but when I installed the puck the system went back to 70. Our thermostat is in the kitchen which doesn't need to be 72. It seems things are fighting each other. It would be nice to have a simple view that says what the system is trying to do. The room is set to 72, while the sensor temp is 67 and the hvac isn't even kicking on because the main thermostat is at the right temp. This defeats any purpose for these vents.

Wasn’t sure how these would work, but I’m super happy with them. They work exactly as they are supposed to. Highly recommend the Flair pucks to go with them as there is less delay opening and closing with the heater compared to using an ecobee sensor. Also contacted customer service a couple times and their support is incredible.

So it's clear that Ecobee's homeowner Ecobee-Flair documentation is hilariously inadequate. In fact, it appears Ecobee's and Flair's co-integration is basically non-existent. Plenty of BLOWHARD feature documentation, with little or no concrete, tactical integration documentation between the two companies. Inexcusable, really, given that the two companies are integration partners. Had I known, I would have NEVER purchased either product. I have had to learn how to implement them independently from each other-a pain in the neck and a waste of time and effort, but doable. Trying to figure out how to integrate the systems together using hearsay from the Web has been more difficult still. I would be ashamed if it/they were my products, held out as premium in the marketplace. And both the Ecobee and Flair Smart Vents are well-constructed and designed. Making the black hole of of integration documentation between the two that much more unforgivable. If I hadn't already spent the time and money and gotten rid of the old equipment, I'd pack both products back up and return them to Amazon. Both companies should be embarrassed.

Our house is about 35 years old and we have had issues keeping the temperature of our upstairs even close to uniform, even after extensive updates to the house. These vents have changed that all together. We installed these vents in two rooms and have another smart vent pre-ordered directly from the company. The two vents that we installed have been working very well. They are keeping two of our most problematic rooms much closer to the set thermostat temperature! On the con side, you will need to also pick up the fairly pricey Puck to act as a gateway for these vents. Fortunately the Puck also pairs with our Ecobee thermostat and can use the Ecobee sensors in lieu of additional Pucks. Another con is that the app is fairly finicky about setting up the Puck. I had to go through the process about 6 times for the setup to actually work as intended. The Puck requires a 2.4GHz wifi connection in order to operate. We have a dedicated 2.4GHz wifi system as we have set up a whole smart home, but in spite of this the Puck still took multiple tries to set up. Still, in the end the system did get set up, and after the Puck paired with our wifi system the vents paired quickly and easily. I would heartily recommend these vents for any home that has issues maintaining a constant temperature across different rooms.

I bought 6 of these vents with one puck (spent $$$), and I have used the vents for about 6 months now, and I feel like I can give an appropriate review now. Overall, not worth the money because it is not reliable and does not work all the time. I think because the vents are cloud based, Flair does not have fast servers for communicating with the vents. My vents are always losing connection and stuck at one state (either closed or open) even when it should be in the other state. To be clear, all my vents and puck are all on the top floor of my house which is just about 700 sq. ft. and I have my internet modem hookup on the top floor with about 500MB of internet service bandwidth and an Orbi RBR50 kit with hard-wired RBS50 satellites that provides solid internet network mesh in all areas of my house. The point is, I have a very great internet service in my house because I work from home full-time. Did I forget to mention that the puck is on the same desk as my Orbi RBR50 router and modem, but still, things don't work as should. I also have an Ecobee thermostat with sensors in very room with is linked to the Flair app and set in automatic mode. I even go as far as buying an app that integrates Flair with SmartThings so that I can also use SmartThings to control the vents, still the experience is still not great because of the poor Flair servers. I really wanted the vents to work as intended but it simply does not work all the time. So many times I would wake up in the middle of the night sweating profusely only to find out that the A/C is set to 74 but the two vents in my room are closed. I'll then pull the vents from the HVAC track since I will need to open the app on the my phone, put the app in setup mode and then wait for the vents to be re-discovered before the vents will work again (who wants to do all that in the middle of the night, half way-asleep?). I could go on and on to count all the ways these vents failed to deliver value for the money but still priced very high (not the mention how multiple closed vents can be bad for the central A/C unit which the vents claims to properly manage by lettings some vents stay open to help with the pressure on the A/C unit). For me, I count the investment as a loss, since I am not really getting the value for my money. This would have been great if the entire system (vent, puck, app and Flair server) worked well, but sadly they do not.