Research profile · last verified 2026-08-20

Lutron Caséta Smart Fan Speed Control Switch (PD-FSQN)

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Exactly which product this is^[1]

Model number: PD-FSQN
Generation: Not established
Region this page covers: Not established
Also sold or listed as: Not established

“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	WorksWorks with this ecosystem^[2][12]	Requires a Lutron Smart Hub; the switch itself has no standard radio.In Amazon Alexa you also need: a Lutron hub
Google Home	WorksWorks with this ecosystem^[2][12]	Requires a Lutron Smart Hub; the switch itself has no standard radio.In Google Home you also need: a Lutron hub
Apple Home	WorksWorks with this ecosystem^[2][9][12]	Lutron states the Smart Hub contains Apple Home technology — the hub provides it, not the switch.In Apple Home you also need: a Lutron hub
SmartThings	WorksWorks with this ecosystem^[2][9][12]	Requires a Lutron Smart Hub plus a SmartThings account. Caseta scenes cannot be imported into SmartThings.In SmartThings you also need: a Lutron hub
Home Assistant	WorksWorks with this ecosystem^[3]	Official lutron_caseta integration with local push; fan speed control is an explicitly supported device type and appears as a fan entity. Requires a Smart Hub or Bridge PRO plus generated certificates. Note Lutron does not list Home Assistant on its own works-with page — support is documented only from the Home Assistant side.In Home Assistant you also need: a Lutron hub

Protocols: CLEAR-CONNECT^[1]

Needs before it works: Yes for anything smart. The switch carries only Lutron's proprietary Clear Connect RF and no standard radio, so every ecosystem integration happens at the hub. It works as a manual wall control with no hub and pairs directly with Pico remotes and Caseta motion sensors (up to 10 devices), but the Lutron app, remote access, voice assistants, and all platform integrations require a Lutron Smart Hub or Smart Hub PRO. RF range is 60 ft line-of-sight, 30 ft through walls.^[1]

What it can do^[10]

You can tell it to

On/off
Fan mode

It reports

Not established — we could not confirm this from vendor documentation

Whether each platform's automations and routines can use it — not just whether its app shows it.

What it does	Apple Home	Google Home	Alexa	SmartThings	Home Assistant
On/off	✓ routines can use it	✓ routines can use it	? not stated	✓ routines can use it	✓ routines can use it
Fan mode	✓ routines can use it	✓ routines can use it	? not stated	✓ routines can use it	✓ routines can use it

Platform documentation: Amazon Alexa — automation engine ceiling (eight terms observed; residue inconclusive by refusal) (2026-09-01), Apple Home — automation engine ceiling (2026-09-01), Google Home — automation engine ceiling (2026-09-01), Home Assistant — automation engine ceiling (2026-08-29), SmartThings — automation engine ceiling (2026-09-01)

Listed capabilities are what we could establish from vendor documentation. An ability missing here is unestablished — not necessarily absent.

Subscription reality^[17]

✓ Works without a subscription: Yes.

Vendor account required: Optional — there is a documented way to use it without one.^[11]

No subscription appears on the product page, the works-with page, or the specification submittal. Established by absence across three manufacturer surfaces rather than by an affirmative statement.

Maintenance reality

Works without the internet: Not established — we have not sourced this yet. It does not mean the product fails without the internet.
Neutral connection required — the load table lists PD-FSQN as requiring neutral, and it lacks the two-wire capability of Lutron's PD-5WS-DV and PD-6WCL. 120 V 50/60 Hz, single permanent split-capacitor motor, 0.1 A minimum to 1.5 A maximum. Requires a 1-gang wallbox with 2.5 in minimum depth, deeper than Lutron's other models need. Four speeds plus off with a user-defined favourite. Single-pole only. Indoor, 32-104 F.
Security updates: No security-update support date is on record for this model yet. We haven't yet checked whether Lutron publishes one, so this is a gap in our research — not a statement about the manufacturer.

The catch

The compatible-fan list is narrow, and a hub is mandatory for anything smart — without one it is a wall switch that a Pico remote can pair to, and nothing more. Lutron's specification submittal excludes fans with integrated speed or light control modules, DC motor fans, fans with remote controls, and bathroom or kitchen exhaust fans — which rules out a large share of ceiling fans sold today, including most bundled with a handheld remote. It controls the fan motor only, not the light, and it is single-pole only.

Who it's for

Households already running a Lutron Smart Hub who have an AC permanent split-capacitor ceiling fan without a bundled remote, and who want the reliability of Lutron's dedicated RF rather than Wi-Fi. Not a fit for hubless setups, DC-motor fans, or anyone needing 3-way wiring.

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 →

Where these facts come from

No mark: Everything on this page without a mark comes from the people answerable for it: the manufacturer, the platform's own documentation, or a certification register. That is the standard we hold ourselves to.
Seller's spec sheet: This fact comes from a retailer's or a reviewer's specification listing instead of from the manufacturer. A few compatibility answers still rest on one, and we are replacing those with the maker's own word as we find it. The date is when we last checked, because these listings change without notice.
Someone's observation: This fact comes from an owner, a forum, or a community project — someone with the product in front of them rather than the company that makes it. Worth knowing, and not the same as the maker saying so.

Below is every source behind the facts on this page, numbered so you can trace any one of them. Each is quoted in the source's own words, with the date we last read it — we keep the wording exact rather than tidying it, so you can check what was actually said.

17 numbered sources· read them in the source's own words

[1] Lutron specification submittal 369987 (assets.lutron.com/a/documents/369987_eng.pdf) — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-07-26
Backs: Protocols, Product identity, Required hub or bridge
[2] casetawireless.com/us/en/works-with — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-07-26
Backs: Amazon Alexa compatibility, Google Home compatibility, Apple Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility
[3] home-assistant.io/integrations/lutron_caseta/ — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-07-26
Backs: Home Assistant compatibility
[4] Absence check across casetawireless.com, lutron.com fan-controls page, and specification submittal 369987 — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-07-26
Backs: Price
[5] Lutron specification submittal 369987 p.4 footnote 4; support.lutron.com article 'What fans can I control with the PD-FSQN' — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-07-26
[6] Lutron's own current product page for this control, casetawireless.com/us/en/products/dimmers-switches/original-smart-fan-speed-control-switch, read 2026-08-22 — it is listed on Lutron's live Caséta dimmers-and-switches catalogue and names the model as 'PD-FSQN-(color code)' with colour options 'WH | White · IV | Ivory · LA | Light Almond · BL | Black'. Its own copy: 'Provides control of your ceiling fan right from the wall, choose from 4 fan speeds plus off', 'Neutral wire required — All homes built after 1973 in the US, or 1980 in Canada, are required to have neutral wires', and 'Extend control — Control your fan from anywhere in the home with a Pico smart remote for fan control or anywhere in the world with the Lutron app. Smart hub required.' Corroborated by Lutron specification submittal 369987, re-downloaded the same day and still at revision 369987o dated 08.14.25 — the same revision this record already cited, unchanged. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-22
Backs: Market availability
[7] Re-verification pass, 2026-08-20, covering two questions. ✅ HOME ASSISTANT, at the integration's own page: the supported-device list names "Lutron smart fan speed control" explicitly and creates a fan entity for it, alongside dimmers as lights, wall switches as switches, scenes, shades as covers, occupancy/vacancy sensors and Pico remotes as device triggers. Supported bridges are enumerated — Caséta Smart Hub (L-BDG2-WH), Smart Bridge PRO (L-BDGPRO2-WH), RA2 Select Main Repeater, QSX Processor, RadioRA 3 processor. ✅ SERVICE, at Lutron's own works-with page: maintained and carrying a "©2026 Lutron Electronics Co., Inc" notice, still naming Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple Home (via the smart hub, "formerly smart bridge"), Apple Watch, Sonos Voice Control, Ring, SmartThings, IFTTT, XFINITY Home and Wink. ⛔ PRICE: Lutron still publishes no price for this control on its own site, so this record carries none — unchanged, and correct. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-20
Backs: Research status, Service status
[8] home-assistant.io, Lutron Caséta integration documentation — Read the platform's own documentation, verified 2026-08-18
[9] Lutron support, 'Apple HomeKit and how to set up and use voice commands with the Caséta or RA2 Select Systems' — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-19
Backs: Apple Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility
[10] Lutron's own Caséta Load Controls specification submittal (369987o, dated 08.14.25), read in full 2026-08-20, which states the capability in one line: "PD-FSQN provides 4 quiet fan speeds plus OFF for a single ceiling fan." Home Assistant's own documentation for its Lutron Caséta integration, read 2026-08-20, establishes that a connected platform receives it as a fan: "Lutron smart fan speed control" appears there as a fan a homeowner can name and control. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-20
Backs: Capabilities
[11] Lutron Pico Controls product-selection FAQs — "Do I need a Caséta smart hub to use a Pico paddle remote? No, the Pico paddle remote can be paired directly with Caséta smart products." and "Once a Pico paddle remote has been added to a Caséta system, the Pico paddle remote does not require internet, but it does require power to the smart hub." · Lutron Caséta technical-support FAQs — "The Lutron App connects to the Smart Bridge via the cloud using an account (email address and password) that you create during initioal system setup." (vendor's spelling of 'initioal' preserved) — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-21
Backs: Vendor account required
Checked 2026-08-21. This page no longer lets us re-check it automatically, so that date is where this fact stands.
[12] Three Lutron-owned surfaces, all read 2026-08-22. (1) The product page (casetawireless.com/us/en/products/dimmers-switches/original-smart-fan-speed-control-switch): 'Neutral wire required', 'Provides 4-speed plus off control of a single ceiling fan, up to 1.5 A', 'Extend control … Smart hub required', 'PD-FSQN-(color code)'. The page publishes NO price and no cart; it offers only 'Do you want to buy in-store or online?' and 'Choose one of the retailers below', with the notice that 'Selecting any of the retailer links will redirect you from a Lutron operated website to a site operated by that retailer'. (2) Specification submittal 369987, re-downloaded and still revision 369987o / 08.14.25: 'PD-FSQN provides 4 quiet fan speeds plus OFF for a single ceiling fan', PD-FSQN listed in the load table at 120 V~ with 0.1 A minimum and 1.5 A maximum, and the wallbox-depth footnote 'PD-FSQN requires 2½ in (63 mm) minimum depth'. (3) The Caséta works-with page, still carrying '© 2026 Lutron Electronics Co., Inc' and still naming Alexa, Google, Apple Home, SmartThings, Sonos, Ring and IFTTT. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-08-22
Backs: Research status, Price, Amazon Alexa compatibility, Google Home compatibility, Apple Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility
[13] https://www.casetawireless.com/us/en/products/dimmers-switches/original-smart-fan-speed-control-switch (read 2026-09-09): 'Neutral wire required — All homes built after 1973 in the US, or 1980 in Canada, are required to have neutral wires', beside 'Provides 4-speed plus off control of a single ceiling fan, up to 1.5 A'. An in-wall control wired to line voltage with a required neutral is hardwired, from the wiring requirement rather than from the device class. — Read on the maker's own site, verified 2026-09-09
Backs: Power source
[14] Attempted 2026-09-09. The Caséta product page is live and names no phone platform; the support.lutron.com page cited on this record has told us in writing not to read it, and a refusal like that is never worked around. The Lutron Claro DVRF-5NS switch was handled the same way for the same reason. The platforms the app runs on stay unrecorded because Lutron's support site said no, not because nobody looked., verified 2026-09-09
[15] Dead-link check, 2026-09-12. https://www.casetawireless.com/us/en/products/dimmers-switches/caseta-fan-speed-control no longer exists, by either way of asking for it. https://www.casetawireless.com/us/en/products/dimmers-switches/original-smart-fan-speed-control-switch is live and carries both quoted sentences — "Provides 4-speed plus off control of a single ceiling fan, up to 1.5 A." and "Neutral wire required — All homes built after 1973 in the US, or 1980 in Canada, are required to have neutral wires." — and names no mobile platform. Neither address has an Internet Archive capture, so the archive cannot say which way the old slug died; the re-point rests on the live page's wording. The support.lutron.com refusal recorded on the re-pointed context entry is unchanged and was not retried., verified 2026-09-12
[16] this record's own provenance, re-read 2026-09-16: every entry was checked for a statement by Lutron itself — its own app, its own hub or bridge, its own documentation for controlling the device over the home network, or its own statement about this model — that the PD-FSQN keeps working when the internet is down. No such entry exists on this record. What the old value rested on instead: Home Assistant's own documentation for its Lutron Caséta integration, which describes a certificate-authenticated connection to the Caséta bridge over the home network, with the bridge pushing changes rather than being polled., verified 2026-09-16
[17] Lutron's Caséta consumer site enumerated whole from its own sitemap — 72 addresses, none of them a plans, pricing or membership page — with the FAQ, the Works With page and two product listings read in full, verified 2026-09-17
Backs: Subscription

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