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

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 love these, super expensive for everything but its nice you can just add extra vents as you buy them. They are built for the price, very sturdy and look nice. They work which is the best part. I always had my room either to hot or to cold and constantly was adjusting my vent. These do it all for me and I dont have to worry about anything. Its always a comfortable temp now. And customer service is great I had an issue with one vent sticking open or closed and they just sent me a brand new one. The fit and size is what you expect. I do wish they had other colors like black, white isnt what I would pick but again I cant complain I love how well they work

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.

I just placed an order for vent register 16 of 19 in my home as part of a two-year conversion. I saw some negative reviews and felt compelled to clear up a few items. First and foremost (and this is critical), install these where you want LESS AIRFLOW, not more. These restrict airflow to places that get too much heat in the winter or too much AC in the summer. Do not start in rooms that need more airflow; get to those last. Second, the impact to rooms needing more airflow will benefit as you add more of these vents in your home. As more of these vents restrict airflow to rooms that do not need it, the remaining airflow will be available for the rooms that do need it. I saw very little benefit with the first five or six vent registers. The system needs control of most or all of the house, not just one here and another there. Second, installation is indeed painful, from the pairing voodoo that no one seems to understand to the agony of installing the cover plate upside down into a ceiling vent. These are mostly one-off painful events per vent register. Once that pain is a memory, you will love the increased temperature stability in your home. Last, get temperature readings in each room. Pucks will read temperature for the Flair system, but Ecobee cannot see that data, whereas both Ecobee and Flair can see Ecobee sensor data. I currently have 15 vents, 3 pucks, and 10 Ecobee sensors. I will have more by the time I am done, but I have been fighting temperature imbalance for 13 years and my home is finally livable throughout.

Terrible reception. Terrible control algorithm doesn't behave as you'd expect; it continues to heat/cool when it shouldn't. I have four of these vents across two rooms, with their control puck2 in each room, a separate gateway, and a Honeywell Wifi/Matter X2S which the Flair cloud-based system can control. Problem is, the heating and cooling calls continue even if all the rooms with pucks are past the setpoint (i.e. plenty hot/cold enough), and it's hard to identify why. Sometimes it's because the vents have just suddenly lost reception, despite having enough battery. Sometimes I think it's because either Flair or Resideo cloud services are having trouble. Sometimes I think it's because Flair's control algorithm, which controls what each component of the system is doing, has no idea how to deal with even the simplest central forced air setup. If you have Z-wave or any other 900MHz devices for smart home IOT devices, don't bother with this setup. I contacted Flair's support asking how I could resolve the signal issues and when I told them I had Z-wave devices they just shrugged. The only solutions are to buy more $99 gateways, or to turn off my smart home systems. To be clear: Their gateway radio had periodic issues connecting to vents WITH LINE OF SIGHT in the SAME ROOM LESS THAN 9 FEET/2m AWAY. I bet they rolled their own radio protocol; they would've done much better to use something like Zigbee and open up a larger antenna window for their metal grate. This system has been incredibly frustrating for how expensive it was. If their software was open-source I'd be way more lenient since I could actually see what it's trying to do and perhaps fix it. HVAC systems have so many different configurations, but I'm sure if there were an open-source community around these things then they could develop something that'd work much better. I can tell they're trying to solve this through having "good support" and logging, so they can try to diagnose things remotely. But it isn't enough, and as it stands, their system is expensive, proprietary, and makes absolutely head-scratching control decisions which result in my rooms being at times way colder or warmer than I want them to be.