Wow, great answers, so fast too. Thanks,
Let's say I don't want to use the Control-4 fan controller. And let's also assume no lights in the fan, but assume it will be a DC motor.
It seems that I just have the electrician run the J-Box wiring to any control-4 load-controlling device, either a switch in the closet, or a keypad (which can control one load, as I understand it).
Now let's put an LED light in the fan. Same same, no more wires needed. In both cases, I use the remote (RF or IR) that came with the fan to control the fan speed or the light intensity, except for the basic turn-on / turn-off which I can do with a Control-4 scene. That works fine for me -- I am happy using the fan's remote for fine-tuning, I don't need integration with Control-4 for that, as long as basic turn-on, turn-off works with Control-4.
I have specified Control-4 type wiring everywhere, so isn't that 3 wires always? Hot, Neutral, Ground ... everywhere?
I wish I understood all this better, but I am getting by with the help of this community!
The house is a condo being built in Jupiter Florida. Even though that is the South, in the apartment am living in nearby while waiting for the building to be done, I have not had to keep the fan on 24x7, even keeping the Air Conditioning fairly high at 78 degrees, I only run the fan periodically,