HOT 222: Control an IR Tower Fan With an Apple Watch - Apple Watch Fan Control?
Hands-On Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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In this episode of Hands-On Tech, Mikah Sargent answers a question from Dave about trying to control a fan from their Apple Watch.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Hands on Tech, let's take a look at gaining access to a fan via our Apple Watch. |
| 0:10.0 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:11.2 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello and welcome to Hands On Tech. |
| 0:22.0 | This is the show where I'm Micah Sargent, |
| 0:23.5 | take your tech questions and answer them. |
| 0:26.0 | Yeah, it's that easy. |
| 0:27.2 | You write in at HOT at twit.tv, and I answer your question. |
| 0:31.2 | I love it, and you love it. |
| 0:32.7 | And that's why you're here, right? |
| 0:34.2 | All right. |
| 0:35.2 | So this week, we got a question in from Dave who writes, I have an |
| 0:42.8 | Ozeri Tower Fan that's spelled O-Z-E-R-I tower fan that I can control from the top of the |
| 0:49.0 | fan or its infrared remote. I also have the Ozeri app on an iPhone that I can control the fan using Wi-Fi. |
| 0:57.0 | Is there a way to control the fan from my Apple Watch? |
| 1:02.0 | I wish there was an Ozeri app for the Apple Watch. |
| 1:06.0 | Dave. So here's the thing. |
| 1:09.0 | I looked into this issue. |
| 1:13.5 | I downloaded the Ozeri app on my device. |
| 1:18.3 | And one of the ways that you can see if you are able to sort of set up a way to pull off this automation is by launching the shortcuts app |
| 1:31.0 | and tapping to create a new shortcut by hitting the plus icon in the top right corner |
| 1:37.3 | and then simply scrolling down in the actions pane and looking for the name of the app. So in this case, Oseri. And it did not show up, |
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