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Research profile · last verified 2026-08-18Big Ass Fans i6 Ceiling Fan
⚠ Similar names, different products: ⚠ Big Ass Fans sells several similarly-named residential fans and this catalogue now holds three. This is the i6 — 60 to 96 in., $2,100.00 to $3,560.00, the industrial-silhouette model. It is NOT the Haiku ("big-ass-fans-haiku-ceiling-fan") and NOT the lower-profile, much cheaper Haiku L ("big-ass-fans-haiku-l", $849.00 to $999.00). ⊕ There is also an i6 OUTDOOR sold on its own page, which this record does not cover: this is the indoor i6.
Exactly which product this is[1]
- Model number
- Not established
- Generation
- Not established
- Region this page covers
- US
- Also sold or listed as
- I6 Ceiling Fan · Big Ass Fans i6 indoor
“Not established” means we have not sourced that detail yet — not that the product has no model number, generation or regional variant. We publish the gap rather than filling it.
Compatibility
| Ecosystem | Support | The catch |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Alexa | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[1] | Not established on this model's own page. Alexa is not named anywhere in the served HTML of the Big Ass Fans product page — zero occurrences. Third-party and brand-blog summaries do claim it; those are not used here. Recorded as unknown rather than none, because a marketing page that names no ecosystem at all is silent rather than denying. |
| Google Home | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[1] | Not established. The only 'Google' strings in the page's served HTML are Google Tag Manager markup, not a compatibility claim. |
| Apple Home | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[1] | Not established. Apple Home, HomeKit and Matter appear nowhere in the page's served HTML — the only 'Apple' string is a CSS font stack. ⚠ Deliberately NOT filled from the brand's marketing blog or from search summaries claiming Matter certification: a certification claim needs the certificate or the vendor's own product surface, and a constructed CSA product URL for this model returned 404, which is not evidence either way. |
| SmartThings | InconclusiveWe researched this and the evidence doesn't settle it — the catch explains why[1] | Not established. SmartThings appears nowhere in the page's served HTML, and no Samsung-owned page naming this model was read. |
| Home Assistant | WorksWorks with this ecosystem[2] | Documented by name on a first-party platform surface — Home Assistant's Big Ass Fans integration lists 'i6 Fans' among supported devices and states 'Its IoT class is Local Push', i.e. the fan is driven over the local network rather than through a vendor cloud. Recorded as "full" against that documented support. ⚠ The integration's Haiku entries carry a '3.0 firmware and later' condition; no such qualifier is attached to the i6 line, and none is invented here. |
? Inconclusive means we researched that ecosystem and the evidence doesn’t settle it — the catch says why, and the sources are listed below. It is a statement about the available evidence, never a verdict on the product. A Setup Check researches your exact setup where the official sources don’t answer.
Protocols: WIFI[2]
What it can do[3]
You can tell it to
- On/off
- Fan mode
- Fan direction
It reports
Not established — we could not confirm this from vendor documentation
Listed capabilities are what we could establish from vendor documentation. An ability missing here is unestablished — not necessarily absent.
Subscription reality[1]
✓ Works without a subscription: Yes.
Vendor account required: Not established — we have not sourced this yet.
No subscription, plan or fee is named anywhere on Big Ass Fans' product page for this model. Recorded as "none" on the strength of the vendor carrying no plan.
Maintenance reality
- Works without the internet: Not established — we have not sourced this yet. It does not mean the product fails without the internet.
- Moves up to 17,405 CFM at less than 35 dBA, in diameters of 60, 72, 84 and 96 in. Mounting is flush or downrod, with downrods from 6 in. to 60 in. covering ceiling heights of 8 to 16+ ft. ⚠ No warranty term, motor specification, radio or app name is printed on the product page — the page links to a warranty rather than stating one.
- Security updates: No security-update support date is on record for this model yet. We haven't yet checked whether Big Ass Fans publishes one, so this is a gap in our research — not a statement about the manufacturer.
The catch
A $2,100-to-$3,560 fan whose own product page names not one smart-home ecosystem — and the check was a measurement, not an impression: the served HTML contains zero occurrences of Matter, HomeKit, Alexa or SmartThings, and no radio of any kind. What DOES document this fan is Home Assistant, whose Big Ass Fans integration names 'i6 Fans' outright and runs Local Push. That is the reverse of this catalogue's usual complaint, and it cuts a specific way for buyers: a self-hosted household is the only one with a documented path to this fan, while an Apple or Alexa household is being asked to trust a brand blog rather than a product page. ⊕ The other thing the page does not print is a warranty term — it links to one instead.
Who it's for
A large room with a high ceiling and a household that either runs Home Assistant, where support is documented by model name and runs over the local network, or does not need voice control at all. Sizes run 60 to 96 in. and mounting is a hardwired, downrod-or-flush job that most buyers will want installed. It is a poor fit for anyone choosing on ecosystem compatibility from the vendor's own claims, because the vendor's own page makes none.
Sources & method
Numbered sources below back the facts marked with the matching number above. This is a research profile: compiled from manufacturer documentation, certification registries, and published testing — we state facts, not verdicts, and we have not physically tested this unit. How we work →
- [1] bigassfans.com, i6 Ceiling Fan product page — vendor-page research (including a keyword census of the served HTML for platform and radio strings), verified 2026-08-18Backs: Product identity, Price, Installation, Power source, Required hub or bridge, Subscription, Batteries, Market availability, Service status, Research status, Amazon Alexa compatibility, Google Home compatibility, Apple Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility
- [2] home-assistant.io, Big Ass Fans (baf) integration documentation — platform-documentation research (counterparty surface), verified 2026-08-18Backs: Home Assistant compatibility, Protocols
- [3] Home Assistant's own Big Ass Fans (baf) integration documentation at home-assistant.io/integrations/baf/, re-read 2026-08-21. Supported devices, verbatim: 'Haiku Fans with 3.0 firmware and later (Legacy SenseME firmware not supported) / Discontinued Haiku Lights with 3.0 firmware and later (Legacy SenseME firmware not supported) / i6 Fans'. 'Its IoT class is Local Push.' Two first-party Home Assistant sources behind that page were read for the entity model the page itself summarises rather than enumerates: the page's own documentation source (raw.githubusercontent.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/current/source/_integrations/baf.markdown) declares 'ha_platforms: binary_sensor, climate, fan, light, number, sensor, switch'; and the integration's fan platform (raw.githubusercontent.com/home-assistant/core/dev/homeassistant/components/baf/fan.py) declares '_attr_supported_features = FanEntityFeature.SET_SPEED | FanEntityFeature.DIRECTION | FanEntityFeature.PRESET_MODE | FanEntityFeature.TURN_OFF | FanEntityFeature.TURN_ON', with 'async_set_direction' writing the fan's 'reverse_enable' property and the entity created whenever 'device.has_fan'. The light, temperature, humidity and occupancy entities in the same integration are each created CONDITIONALLY ('device.has_light', 'device.has_auto_comfort', 'device.has_occupancy'), which is why they are not claimed here. Read alongside Big Ass Fans' own i6 technical specification sheet (ISM-MKTG-161-ENG-01 REV. AA, 03/04/26, https://bigassfans.widen.net/content/owj7becvzy/pdf/cutsheet-i6.pdf), whose Construction Features table gives Controls as 'Handheld remote / Bluetooth wall control / Big Ass Fans mobile app / Voice control / 0-10 V' and Integrations as 'Voice control with Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa', 'Apple Homekit with Matter', 'Works with home automation systems', and whose 84 in. indoor row reads '17,405' CFM — the exact figure this record already carries, which is how the sheet was confirmed to be this model's rather than a sibling's. — counterparty-source check (BQ-187 capabilities population, batch 15b), verified 2026-08-21Backs: Capabilities
Compatibility and lifecycle information reflects the last-verified date above and can change without notice (firmware updates, cloud-service changes, discontinuations). It is provided as-is, for information — verify with the manufacturer before purchasing. Spot an error? Tell us and we'll fix it. Full terms: Terms of Service.