How To Install a Ceiling Fan With Remote Control 

Only person to mention what to do with the "red wire" regarding installation. Thank you.

12 years old and the only video i found that mention the red wire. Thank you so much for saving me after about 2 hrs of searching what to do.

Looks great, and with a brighter bulb installed that’s all the light you need. ru-vid.comUgkxWF88GpljEn-0o34vtLFazEQ5h5Q33SjU As far as ease of installation- this was my first ceiling fan and it took about 3 hours because I had no idea what I was doing and also it’s helpful to have a second set of hands and a magnetic drill bit. Works great.

Terry needs to be the spokesman for Harbor Breeze! Home Depot, Lowe's, Ace Hardware should have a Terry Presentation Video on flat screens in their Electrical Department! Thanks Terry! 👍🏻

1:40 Thanks. After going through several ceiling fan installation videos, you're the first to mention where the remote receiver goes.

Saved our day, the first RU-vid we opened, and it helped my husband immediately with that red wire!!

Amen to the only person that told me what to do with all the wires coming out of the ceiling. Thank you !

Tremendously helpful!!! Had some trouble figuring out which wires would power the remote and what to do with the leftovers. Total success after watching this video!!!

Thanks! That's what I needed!! The remote was not working because I was hooking up both black wires (Instead of the black and a red) respectively to the light and fan wires. Once I hooked up the black on receiver to the black from ceiling and left the other black (red) wire by itself covered with a wire nut, my remote worked!!! I almost cried with my sister ( who was helping me) yay! It works now!!!

Made this girl look like a hero in front of her Dad!!! Thank you so much for the clear instructions, worked perfectly!

Thank God for you....I was going crazy over here trying to set up my new fan

*Easy install, so far Works great **Fastly.Cool** !*

thnx Terry 9 years later your video is still helping people, i just install one today, didnt know how to conceal the box

Thank you Terry, Following your instructions, I was successful in resetting my remote with transmitter. The hardest part was getting the wiring concealed underneath the escutcheon

I've been trying to figure out how to get both of my wall switches to work!! Thanks for breaking the news to me that only one wall switch can be used and must be left on....that sucks!

Nice instructional video. Question is okay to have constant power to the ceiling fan which is only controlled with the remote?

The only decent install video i found.

Your advice was fantastic I installed my remote control for the fan light combo in less than 30 minutes because of your very well done video THANK YOU

Thank you Mr terry this video was a game changer for me, even though it was an older video it helped me out now in 2023👏

Literally thank you for explain where to put the wires, we spent so long trying to figure out why the little box wouldn’t fit

Good info never gets old!! Used your video to help hang a ceiling fan. It's been 30 years so we were kinda rusty !

Mystery solved. No more ghosts in my home!!! Thank you fan man.

Having a hard time finding the code on the receiver to make sure it’s set properly, any advice on where exactly on the receiver the code is located to set it properly? Are the dip switches identical with the ones on the controller?? *Update* receive didn’t have a dip switch on my model, it’s older. Called customer service and found the sequence to pair remote. Power fan off, take battery out remote, power fan on, power remote on, point remote at receiver and press and release 3, then 2, then 1, worked like a charm.

Oh my goodness, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!!! Changing the code on the remote following your instructions here made our remote work again! YAY!! 🥳🎉 Thank you!!

Thank you!!! Your videos helped us install our Harbor Breeze 52 in Indoor Fan w/ Remote

WOW!!! What a super nice man! After watching 2 of his videos, I followed up with a couple of additional questions by emailing his website, which he promptly responded to with clear and thorough answers. Thank you so VERY much Terry!!

You jumped right past tucking the box in. That is the hardest part and you didn't show it until after it was done.

So, you didn’t really ‘tuck all the wires up into the ceiling receptacle’. I’ve been trying to get all the wires into the receptacle in the ceiling; I even took the bracket down (very difficult with the canopy in the way) and tried to re-sit the wires and then the remote - but it’s IMPOSSIBLE. So I guess I really don’t have to get all the wires into the receptacle, just into the canopy. That’s good to know.

Thank you Terry you have no idea how much this tips helped me

Great video. I've been trying to figure out where that stupid receiver is supposed to be mounted and your video clearly showed this. I have a Hampton Bay Windward IV and there is no place in the actual instructions where it actually tells you where the receiver mounts. Thanks much!

Thank you for explaining the red and black on a duel switch.

Thank you sir you did a excellent job explain the the different between the wires 👍👍👍

Me and my husband: there's a leftover wire at the ceiling 😲 Me: [Checks instructions] Me: I don't know. The English is barely understandable in these instructions. Him: Nothing about an extra wire? Me: Nope. Us: [staring at each other in silence then at the ceiling] Me: I know! Let's check good ole' RU-vid. Finds this video the first try! THANK YOU for the instructions and confidence to complete our project!! Excellent advice on testing out which wire to which wall switch 😁

Hey Terry nice video! Another option for people who prefer to turn the lights on when they first walk in the room would be to connect the red wire from the ceiling to the blue wire that goes directly to your fan(this of course will not allow you remote to work for the light). It's hard to find the remote when your room is dark. Unless your really good at putting the remote by the door every time you leave the room :). Just my 2 cents though.

We can hardly see because your video is out of focus and your hand is in the way. Suggest using a pointer or something smaller to point and pull the wires out so we can see what you are showing. Additionally you didn't address the red wire, where is that connected? Thanks for taking the time to create a video.

I have a beige wire coming from the ceiling, not a white wire. Is this the same as a white wire? The black wire was capped off from the ceiling light. There is no blue wire from the ceiling. And the Hunter ceiling fan has a black wire with a white stripes running down the black wire vs a white and black wire? Very different from anywhere else in the home which is the standard colored wires. (Black, White, Blue, Green & Copper/ground). Wall Switch is a duel, one for light one for the fan. I do know which is hot, light, etc. Just never seen this configuration, and can not find anywhere online.

I knew you wouldn't show the canopy installation.

Great video but please answer this. My remote controller has 1 green and 1 red wire coming off 1 side. Is the green a ground? and the red a hot that should go to black out of ceiling?

Very helpful. Can you clarify how many ground wires you would have in a situation like this, and where they are coming from? Obviously, you have the main ground coming from the ceiling, and then a ground wire screwed to the mounting bracket. I think there's a third ground, yes? I installed a remote-controlled ceiling fan last week and followed this exact procedure, but my LED lights are humming. I am not using a dimmer switch. Don't know what I did wrong, but I'm pretty sure the lights should not be humming. They hum whether the fan is on or off. It's not the fan motor that is humming, but the lights. Thanks!

Great video, so easy to follow, but... SHOW ME THE SWITCHES and how it worked before. Thanks Terry!

thank you so much for this video. you have no idea how much this helped me. i really appreciate the streamlined presentation of how to install that receiver. took me one try after watching the video! thanks a lot.

You can also put the receiver above the junction box above the sheetrock

I couldn't figure out how to get the receiver placed and secured. Thanks for showing me how to do that!

LQQK at the "bridge" style mount that the hanging shaft attaches too, it's a little arch that the receiver is tucked into, i understand how to do it now.

Bought two identical ceiling fans with remote light and power. Wasn't sure about the frequency switch change for the remotes and how that worked. Your video made that process very easy. Thank you.

Thanks for this video and for your web page. I was confused about a dual switch (both red and black wire), and this cleared it all up for me. Saved me lots of time.

I did one of these a few hours ago, the toughest part was the transmitter and all the wires fitting in the canopy (the install design of the fan was lacking thought on the actual installation, the blades were installed per the instructions before the base was mounted to the ceiling) hampton bay seems to have the best install design!)

Hey Buddy, if you wanted to use the red wire coming out of the box as well (separate switch to turn fan light off and on) would you connect both BLUE WIRES to the red one?

How to fit the remote box into the tight space would be helpful

Excellent help … thank you ! Manufactures instructions never cover all wiring options and your video really helped me out. Thx again.

Hello. Is it possible to make the light option of the fan, to be turned on from a wall switch AS WELL as from the remote control?

Thanks for sharing! Great video. I have this same exact set of cables coming from the ceiling, but I want to use the wall switch too! Where should I connect the RED cable to if I want the wall switch to also control the fan/lights, in addition to the remote? The fan color cables are 3 (white, black and green/ground)

Thank you Terry, you saved me a bunch of trouble. The instructions that came with my universal remote were terrible. So you saved me alots of time !!! Thanks - RJennings

I need assistance with positioning the receiver in the ceiling. All of my connections are done and working, but the receiver is too bulky for me to get into the ceiling.

You saved my day ! Thank you

This was one of the best install video's I've come across utilizing the remote. Although you left out the locale of the box, the answer, was stated below. Thank you for making my fan install much easier.

Thanks Terry but I would have liked a little more commentary/clarity regarding the switches. Maybe my room is typical in that it has a bank of four switches, one for canned lighting, one for a switched receptacle, one to control the light on a ceiling fan, and one to control the fan on a ceiling fan. Like you, I only used the one hot wire to power the fan but that's where I would like a little more clarity regarding the switches. I decided to use the third switch. I left the fourth switch as is. I capped the wire from the fourth switch at the fixture. What I'm wondering is whether or not a professional electrician would object to leaving the fourth switch hot. Perhaps they would prefer that I removed the pigtail to the fourth switch and cap off the wire that went from the fourth switch to the fixture. I didn't do this because it's more work but I've been wondering if a pro wouldn't approve of my methodology.

thank you so much for the video. it helped me out a lot in the installation process.

Thanks for making this video. Very thorough and well done. Just so happened I was looking for a video for a double wall switch 👍

I only have the red and white coming from the ceiling. Perhaps my setup isn’t working because I don’t have a black wire.

@3:02 if you just wanna see how its done

i have put the receiver like you in the cover and after 1 week and a very hot day both of the fans that i installed went wrong.The receivers stop working so no control of the fan. I took them back replace them and install the receivers outside so they can have more air. (Take note that is not only a receiver and works like a transformer so it becomes hot! )

Thank you fan man! You really helped us with this video :)

would be nice to see how he got that box done...

Thx for sharing the video. I have a question though. My sister's wall control unit lights up for a second, but no response form the ceiling fan. Control unit came with the fan. I checked the ckt breaker, and power is present from the line wire going to the control unit. Could it be just a bad control unit? thx

I LOVE Hampton Bay ceiling fans!

I installed a better homes & garden universal remote on my flush mount ceiling fan finally. The only problems are it rubs on the motor and it seems not to go as fast as before.

TY this helped me figure out the wiring on my new fan!

Thank you for that sharing sir,salamat sayong ibinahagi sir,from Philippines.

....motor to white from receiver and blue from fan light to blue from receiver. Other side of receiver is input side: white "AC in N" (power in: neutral); black "AC in L" (power in: Line)...connect black(from ceiling) to black and white(from ceiling) to white. There should also be a green coming from either fan or receiver..connect it to green coming from ceiling. Hope this helps.

Very well explained, thanks!

So basically power the receiver, connect the wires from the fan to the receiver by color, tuck away, finish the rest of the job.

I have just reinstalled a hamton bay i haven't used in awhile. it has a up and down light. everything works except for the upper light

So there is no way to use one switch for the light and one switch for the fan? In these instances where there's a remote, seems very silly to remove functionality of the wall switch.

You could have shown you tucking all that in the bell housing.

Yeah I figured it out. The box for the chandelier was not suitable for a fan. I had to get in there and cut it out. Then I used one of those fan rated boxes that you crank in, between the studs. It removed virtually all the wobble. I just had to add those weights to the fan blades and it didn't wobble at all. =D

love this video..I'm replacing a fan in an old house, the only wires from the original fan was a red and a blue wire. Is the blue wire the same as the blk wire?

I tried installing one of these fans today. Wired the fan up from knowledge (had it right) confidently turned the switch on nothing no power to fan. Ruled out all possibilities with multi meter. So I checked diagram and had wiring correct still no power. So I tried wiring it a few different ways putting the the blue and black from receiver straight to power and ran all three whites to common. Then I was able to operate the fan from the remote but not there light. Not really sure what’s going on in my case maybe a bad receiver idk? But 100% wired up from directions and from your video still nothing 😭

Thanks for the help I needed it with that red red wire

Muy bien explicado, gracias. . . en otros videos se ve que no usan el cable rojo pero NO explican porqué. Me faltaba entender esa parte.

I have everything wired the way you show it here and my fan works, but the light won't come on. Would there ever be a time when you would tie the blue and the black wires together? The wires coming out of the fan and going into the remote receiver, I mean.

Hi I have it installed and working fine for about 3 months now the remote can’t turn off the light it controls the fan and the speeds but not the light it stopped working. Any quick fix? I would hate to have to take it all down, thanks

Thanks. Helped me replace light kit and transmitter.

Thank you for the video. Much appreciated.

Thank you, Terry! Worked like a charm.

Hi there, I am upgrading my ceiling fan to a newer one with a remote control one. Question my old fan has 4 wires . The wires on the ceiling has 4 wires black, red , white and green. My newer fan wires has 3 wires black, white and green. I know that the black with black, white with white and Greens together. The red gets cap by capping the red will effect any other lights or switches? Please advise thank you sincerely Freddy.

Thank you ! Great video. Just installed the same until , different blade system ..Remote control gotta do some adjustments W / wires !

Don't the wire connections need to be tucked up into the junction box rather than the canopy cover? I think that's the new code.

the fact the the wires like the hot and neutral are sticking out of the fan box break code or not ?

I wired it exactly as he said and switched the cb on, but it still doesn't work. Any thoughts?

My ceiling fan is located in upstairs den with bedroom along side it.I have a light switch at bottom of stairs,one in den and one in bedroom.Do not know where to wire red wire for all 3 switches

It worked great for me!!!! Thank you for being a great teacher 🙏

Hi there, thank you for your videos. I am hoping there is a way I can install a ceiling fan in my ceiling that has no drywall. My ceiling is only painted beams with a flattop roof so I have no crawlspace. I’m hoping there is a way to run the wiring on the outside of my wall somehow? I would greatly appreciate your advice, thank you advance.

Are you sure it is the box that is causing the wobble problem? The main two problems for c/fan wobble are that the ball on the end of the downrod is not sitting correctly in the ball bracket and secondly the screws attaching the blades to the arms and/or the screws attaching the arms to the fan body are not completely tightened. First lift the fan up a bit and ensure the small knobly bit sits firmly into the small slot on the bracket. Now, go around the fan blades and body. tighten all screws.

I have a Hunter fan that light doesn’t work on the or by the remote. I was going to replace the remote unit but it didn’t make sense that the light won’t work at all. The fan works from the pull chain but not the remote. Any suggestions before I replace the entire unit?

What if your house doesn’t have a red wire can you still connect it and control ot with the remote

I have 4 wires coming in not 3 does the extra wire go to blue wire from fan and the Black from fan to the yellow on switch.

Thanks for this video. It looks like we have similar sub counts lol.

Can't get my receiver to fit. Electrical box below drywall. Can I take box out and just wire it up ?

Thank you so much the instructions were very clear and I connect my remote