So have had this installed for about a month and we still use it as a regular fan. Something about teaching an old dog new tricks just hasn't been able to keep us from doing anything other than using thr light switch.  Maybe bc this is in the dining room (where it looks fantastic) but we just have nit taken advantage of it like I thought we would. 

Note we mostly use the dining room for festivities so maybe if we had put it in a bedroom it would be different?