May 2018: I've been meaning to add an additional comment to my review + update for some time. I've now included a second postscript at the bottom of the review.February 2017: Despite some misgivings described in my original review below, I liked this fan enough to buy a second one. I've had both now for several months and the additional experience leads me to update my review. I'm increasing my original three-star rating to four stars, and have added a postscript with some new thoughts at the bottom of my review.ORIGINAL REVIEWDesignBeauty is in the eye of the beholder. The sweeping blade design is modern and looks great, but the fan body is inexplicably chunky and looks somewhat like a wastepaper basket hung upside-down from the ceiling. The net result is a contemporary design that is maybe a touch more awkward-looking than Hunter intended. Overall, though, the look is clean, and if your ceiling is white, the fan doesn't make itself a conversation piece (which is a compliment).Inexplicably, the remote control is black, a major design goof on Hunter's part. The light fixture contains two A19 sockets, and Hunter is good to include two LED bulbs with the fan. Unfortunately, the bulbs they include are not rated for use in an enclosed fixture like this fan, suggesting their useful lifespan will be much shorter than expected for LED bulbs. Also, the bulbs are the "daylight" color temperature rather than the more customary "soft white", so the light is quite bright and slightly blue rather than yellow. I have the fan installed in my bedroom and I do not care for that color temperature in there. I'll need to get different bulbs.InstallationHanging the fan is no more or less difficult than any other ceiling fan, so if you've installed a fan before, you'll not have any trouble with this one. If you have not done so, installing this fan is not difficult, but you'll need to be comfortable with trimming the long electrical wires (assuming you are using the included short downrod) and generally following directions. You will also find that the installation manual has some mistakes. For one, it suggests that a medium-length downrod is included, and if you want a short one for near-flush-mount installation, it has to be ordered separately. This is wrong; the short rod is in the box and there is no medium rod. (You would have to order a long one if you have high ceilings.) A second error is that to connect the fan to your wireless network, the manual instructs you to download the wrong app from the app store. (You need SimpleConnect WiFi, not SimpleConnect -- they are two different apps.)PerformanceThis is the best part of the fan. As promised on the box, the fan itself is very quiet, with the only noise coming from the whoosh of the blades as they turn. Otherwise, there is no mechanical noise. (The fan does beep when it receives a command from the remote or from your phone, but you can turn this off.) At its highest speed, this fan moves a lot of air. Its cooling power is noticeably better than the smaller five-blade fan it replaced in my bedroom. I'm quite happy with the fan in this regard.OperationYou can operate the fan via its remote control, via Hunter's SimpleConnect Wifi app on your phone, or via Apple's HomeKit on your phone, iPad, or Apple Watch -- including Siri commands. All of this is what makes me most excited and most nervous about the fan.Remote: With the remote, you can of course turn the fan lights on or off and dim them, and you can engage the fan itself and change speeds. So far so good. Technology marches on, though, and at some point down the road the cool WiFi/HomeKit parts of the fan are going to be obsolete and will no longer work. You have to accept that going in. I did, and I told myself, "At least the fan will still work with the remote control." Having used the fan for a few weeks now, I'm not so sure. I've had a few occasions when the fan won't respond to WiFi commands (see below), and in these instances it doesn't respond to the remote, either. As we say of dead phones, it's a brick. This has been fixable by turning the wall switch off for a few seconds and back on -- it's what Hunter recommends doing, too -- but it's disconcerting to think that when the Wifi stops working, or if it simply breaks, that you can't even use the fan as a regular "dumb" fan with the remote control. The fan it replaced in my bedroom had been on the ceiling for 15 years. I worry that this fan may not last a third of that (and at triple the cost, no less).SimpleConnect WiFi app: You use Hunter's app to to the initial fan configuration. You won't want to use it much after that: it's buggy, poorly designed, and offers little that you can't do via Apple's HomeKit if you must use your phone. And using the remote control will always be faster, if you have it handy. The one advantage the app has versus HomeKit is that you can use it to dim the fan lights. You can tell Siri to dim the lights, but via Apple's HomeKit phone controls themselves all you can do is turn the lights on and off.EDIT: The last sentence is not correct. I don't know whether I was experiencing a glitch initially, or an update arrived, or I was simply wrong, but you CAN dim the light with the HomeKit controls, in addition to via Siri.HomeKit: This is one of the main reasons I bought this fan. I want to do things like have it come on automatically when the temperature in my house rises above a certain point, or be able to turn it on or off for any reason when I am out of the house, or even program a schedule for the light if I am traveling. All of these things work, which is a real kick; and it's also a lot of fun to say "Hey Siri, turn on the bedroom fan" -- and bingo, the fan spins up. That said, I would guess that around 30% of the time I pick up the phone to issue a command to the fan, the phone has lost its connection to the fan. Inevitably I find this when I am out of the house. Sometimes the connection will magically reappear shortly after, but usually the only remedy is to wait until I get back home and the phone and fan are back on the same network. Then they reconnect. This is enormously frustrating, because all of the automation I want to do with the fan is for when I am not home, which means the connection must be rock-solid reliable. I'm afraid it simply isn't. Whether the issue is with Hunter's implementation of HomeKit or Apple's technology, I don't know, but it is really frustrating.This section is ultimately why, though I like the fan as a fan, I can't rate it higher. If I were buying a purely mechanical fan, I'd recommend Hunter all day. They make great fans. But this is a computer with a fan around it, which is something new for the company. And you can see they are new at it, in everything from their rough app to the buggy networking to (I hear anecdotally) their relatively clueless tech support for the "smart" networked features. I hope Hunter is working diligently to improve themselves in this area, and that they are taking the effort seriously. Right now, this connected fan is uncomfortably close to being a gadget, by which I mean something akin to a reasonably-useful toy. That is not a good place to be for a $300 object semi-permanently attached to the ceiling. You might buy a new phone every year or two, but you're not going to keep replacing your fan. If Hunter is going to be in the "smart" appliance market, they need to bring that part of their capability to the level of their mechanical fan prowess as fast as possible. It's not there yet.ConclusionDespite some criticisms here, I do like the fan. If you are looking for a networked fan with some fun features that shines when you really want to move some air, and you are willing to regard yourself as an early adopter, with all that means for bugginess and eventual obsolescence, you'll enjoy this.UPDATE, February 2017As mentioned at the top, I've now had two of these fans for several months and can share some updates.First, almost all of the networking and HomeKit instability I described in my early experience with this fan has disappeared. I can't remember the last time I had to "reboot" one of the fans by turning off the power at the wall switch. They have also stayed reliably connected to my Wifi (as far as I can tell, anyway), and are almost always instantly available in Control Center on my phone, for quick taps to turn the fans or lights on or off. I will say that the iPhone does a much better job of staying connected to the fans (or the other way around) than my iPad does; with the latter device, I generally have to wait several seconds for it to discover the fans so I can control them via Control Center. Not so with the phone, where it turns out they are almost always instantly available, whether I am at home or not. Siri does sometimes fail to control them when I ask, although I usually assume that's just Siri being Siri, and not a problem with the connection. Overall, while I originally called the fan a "two-and-half-star computer", I think three-and-a-half stars is more appropriate.I'm really enjoying the automation capabilities via HomeKit, although this is where reliability could be a bit better. For example, I have an automation set to turn on the fan lights every day at sunset. I would say this works 90+% of the time for both fans, but in the remainder, one fan or the other will still be dark when I get home after sunset. This gives me pause in counting on this feature for security when I am out of town, but in everyday life the occasional failure is more an annoyance than a problem.There are some quirks in how the fans and lights behave via HomeKit automation. As base behavior, the fan and lights will turn on at the settings where you left them. If you turn the fan off when it is at 50% speed, when you turn it back on, it will be at 50% speed. This is true whether you use the remote, use the Home app on your phone or the Control Center button, or tell Siri to turn the fan on. Reasonable enough. However, if you tell Siri to turn the fan on at 100%, Siri will accept the command but the fan will still come on at 50%. It requires a second command once the fan is on to spin it to 100%. (Using the Control Center button, you can long press to select the speed before the fan comes on and that does work.) The same is true for the fan lights and dimming.Here's an example of where that's a problem. I have another automation set to dim both fan lights to 20% at 10PM. They stay that way until I turn them off for the night. The next day at sunset, my automation to turn them on again is set to do so at 100%. Despite that, they would come back on at the same 20% they were at when switched off. Again, the same sort of thing is true for the fan speed. I was able to find a workaround that makes the lights do what I want (come on at 100%), but oddly, the same workaround does not work for fan speed. If you want to use automation or a Siri command to turn the fans on at a different speed than they were at when you turned them off, you'll have to issue the command twice.Despite little glitches like this, I've really come to appreciate the automation capabilities of the fans. And I've said, the connection and networking aspects have been rock-solid for a long time now. The rest of my original review, including my appreciation for the Symphony simply as a ceiling fan, applies. I think it's still in early-adopter territory, but if you're one of those types, you'll really like this. I do, and am increasing my original three-star rating to four stars.UPDATE, May 2018I wrote in my original review that, with this first step into the "smart" appliance market, Hunter was now a consumer electronics company, and would need to commit to being better at everything from software design to customer service to be a successful one. While I haven't needed the app since setting up my fans, nor have I contacted customer support for help except for the following, it appears from other Amazon reviews since I first posted that Hunter has not done so. Regrettable.Still, I think those remain only cautions to would-be buyers: the smart features of the fan do work; you may just need the help of your smart kid to set them up initially (and then only maybe). What disturbs me more is that Hunter also hasn't taken seriously a more basic responsibility of being in this market: security. Other reviews have noted that Hunter does not offer a way to update the fan's "firmware", or the software that gives it its "smarts" plus the ability to connect to your WiFi network. This is disappointing at best, since all software has bugs, requires updates to remain compatible with various standards, and so on. As I mentioned in the main part of my review, the smart features of this fan will be obsolete and stop working eventually. With Hunter offering no way to update the firmware (and no updates in the first place), I fear that obsolescence will come sooner than it needs to. More disturbing, though, is that updates also are often needed to address security issues. With the fan on your wireless network, it offers an intruder who gains access to your network an additional device to compromise and do bad things to your other devices, as well as to "sniff" the data you send over your WiFi, for example from your phone. Over the last year, there has been at least one major vulnerability discovered in secure WiFi (I'm referring to the KRACK exploit here) that can put data on your network at risk from devices that have been compromised. Every major computer, phone, and many other device manufacturers pushed out firmware updates for their products to protect them from KRACK.Hunter did not. I contacted Hunter support and asked directly if the company planned to address the KRACK vulnerability in their smart fans. The answer was a flat "no". Granted, this could have been a support representative speaking out of turn, but I doubt it. As mentioned, Hunter has had no way to deliver a firmware update even if they wanted to, and since KRACK was a 2017 discovery and it is now 2018, and Hunter still has not delivered a vector for firmware updates, it's clear that "no" was the right answer. Hunter obviously plans to continue to ship their smart fans "as-is", with whatever vulnerabilities and bugs they may have, and any consequences of that are left to the consumer to deal with. I'm disappointed about this as regards bugs and eventual obsolescence, but I'm downright angry about when it comes to security. Shipping a secure product is table stakes in the networked device world nowadays. Hunter clearly does not take this responsibility seriously, and to me this is a real reason to consider not buying this fan or any of Hunter's other smart fans. Yes, the security risk to any one person and any one fan is minimal, but so is your risk of being hit by a car crossing the street. You still check both ways, and drivers are still expected to yield. If Hunter can't or won't take this basic responsibility seriously, I would be very concerned about their commitment to these products overall as a potential purchaser.I am not going to change my rating of this fan again after all this time, but it certainly would affect the "3 1/2 star computer" part of my rating and the fan's overall score were I to do so. I believe this is an important shortcoming for buyers to be aware of, and a very bad look for Hunter.After installing a 54" Leiva ceiling fan from Hunter Fan Co, I ordered this 54" Symphony fan because I liked the first fan so much. The result is the same. Fantastic!It is quiet, but it is not a noiseless fan. Like the Leiva fan, the fan is driven by an AC motor and has a very, very low hum, but you cannot hear it at all when you have other noises around you. Also, the fan blades generate wind noise. The edges of the blades are not aerodynamically designed, but unless you speed up the fan, The noise is not that noticeable. It moves enough air at the lowest speed, so I don't see why you would need to crank it up.The design is very simple and unpretentious. It just disappears into the background but provides the comfort I was looking for without turning up the Air conditioner. If you are looking for fanciness, this will not satisfy you. However, the other elaborate fans are 2 to 4 times this fan's cost. Why pay that much when people do not look up and enjoy what is on the ceiling. Yes, if you have money to burn, why not!The built-in lamp provides plenty of extra light for me. The fan comes with 2 small A19 LED bulbs with an E26 base and 3000K at 800Lm. So the fan puts out 1600Lm of light. This fan supplements the existing lights in my living room a lot more. However, the light temperature is warmer than the existing lights, so I will be looking for replacement bulbs to match the existing lights.This light configuration is what I like the most. You can replace the bulbs instead of the fixed LEDs the other fans come with. You can get bulbs with different light temperatures and lumen as long as you get the E26 base, but you have many choices of light bulbs in that base.I have not yet connected the fan to my phone because the wireless remote that comes with is good enough for me.Everything about this fan is good and well made; however, installation is somewhat tricky due to the 2" long drop-down rod. Because it is short, it gets in the way of connecting the wires, and I would like it about 1" longer. Otherwise, the installation is very straightforward.The installation instruction requires imagination to figure out which screws to use for what. The illustration does show the screws to use by showing the shape and length of the screws, but they do not match precisely with the actual hardware, and there are similar screws in the bags, so be careful. I had no issue because I had installed the other Hunter fan, which had a more precise instruction guide.Hope you enjoy this fan as much as I do.The fan looks good and does the basics... lights up and spins around. However, the smart integration is some of the worst I’ve seen. You, of course, have to sign up with Hunter and download yet another app, like every other ill-conceived, “we wanna do our own thing despite this technology already being well-established, with too many ‘standards’ as it is” product. If you have a variety of smart home products, you’ll know what I mean.It’s very unfriendly to set up (and I’m In IT) and does a few really wonky things. For example, you can’t use it with smart bulbs as part of a larger array, because when you switch the lights off they come back on after a couple of seconds. For some reason, the lighting circuit opens for a split second and then closes again, so the bulbs just come back on. Weird and frustrating.So, if you just want a ceiling fan, this is too expensive. If you want an elegant, well integrated addition to an existing smart home, this ain’t it. If you want a completely stand-alone smart fan for which you need to keep an additional app on your phone and never want it to work with anything else, this might be for you.First of all let's talk about the fan itself. It is easy to install even by yourself. The parts are top notch and the instructions are easy to follow.The speed of the fan is great and I did not have to balance it out of the box which is nice.The remote is good but sometimes the buttons need to be pressed hard to register the command.It would have been a 5 star rating if not for the smart features. The app in Canada available in the app store is version 1.0 which is outdated and the website asks you to at least have version 2.0. Which does not exist...Version 1.0 is not functionnal at all. I was lucky I had a Apple Homekit setup so I was able to add the fan to my smart home through the Apple Home app.Also the fan emits a really loud beep every time you send a command (remote or smart). So forget about changing the speed in the middle of the night since you will wake up everyone. Maybe there is a way to remove this sound in the app but since there is no app...This fan is fantastic. Installation was a breeze and instructions are super easy to follow. Everything fits just perfect. Just make sure you have a fan-rated electrical box, otherwise you will run into problems. The fan itself is ultra quiet and pushes lots of air in our large bedroom, although you do hear the blades at high speeds. The only complaint I have is the WIFI and HomeKit setup which took a bit of fiddling, but once it was setup, it has been reliable. If you are looking for a quality smart fan with HomeKit support, this is definitely the one to get.Acheté pour ventilation d’une chambre à coucher à plafond cathédral. La première configuration s’est faite comme un charme. Mais après un débranchement de l’apparel pour quelques jours, nous avons mis des heures pour tenter de rebrancher, sans succès. Nous étions limité à la télécommande fournie. Puis après quelques autres tentatives, j’ai à nouveau eu accès aux fonctionnalités du ventilateur dans domicile. Puis suite à un panne de 15 minutes, voilà, l’appareil ne se rebranche plus. Des heures d’essais-erreurs à venir, mais après une heures d’essaie, j’ai abamdonné. HomeKit (ou Hunter) vraiment pas au point. Extrêmement déçu de notre achat. Nous prenons que des produits HomeKit mais la moitié posent problème. Nous aurions dû y aller avec Google Home.