I have a ceiling fan+light that is already installed on the ceiling, and I
want to install a controller that has a light dimmer and a fan speed
controller in one assembly. I have said controller in hand.
The switch has two black wires, a blue, and a green.
The switch box in the wall has black/white/ground coming from the breaker
box, and black/white/red/ground going to the ceiling. I know for a fact that
the fan assembly is installed correctly -- that black/white goes to the
light and red/white serves the fan.

1. How are two blacks, a blue, and a ground wire supposed to be hooked up in
the switch box?
2. If the fan is a three-speed fan, that means I cannot hook up a slide
controller at all, right?

Thanks.

From what you describe, the hot wire in your switch box goes to one of the
wires on the control, it should say which wire is "line" and which is fan
and light. The fan and light wires from the control go to their respective
wires going to the fan. Since it's a three speed fan, you'd set the pull
chain on high speed and control it from your wall control. The big problem
in my opinion is that this type of combination control tends to make an
annoying hum
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I have a ceiling fan+light that is already installed on the ceiling, and I
want to install a controller that has a light dimmer and a fan speed
controller in one assembly. I have said controller in hand.
The switch has two black wires, a blue, and a green.
The switch box in the wall has black/white/ground coming from the breaker
box, and black/white/red/ground going to the ceiling. I know for a fact
that the fan assembly is installed correctly -- that black/white goes to
the light and red/white serves the fan.

1. How are two blacks, a blue, and a ground wire supposed to be hooked up
in the switch box?
2. If the fan is a three-speed fan, that means I cannot hook up a slide
controller at all, right?

Thanks.