Your assuming correctly. You should have a wall switch. Its nice to turn off the switch so you can install your fan and hook up the remote sensor with out getting shocked. My remote can with a cradle. Screwed it up next to my wall switch so when I come in the room I hit the light button on the remote to turn my lights on. On my fan you hold down the light button and it starts to dims low then comes back up to high. If you let go of the button when its at, let say the lowest setting, and then turn it off by remote, and then turn it back on, it comes back on in that previous setting. When I want to reset the dimming setting on the light, I turn off the wall switch and then back on. So now when I turn on the light by remote its set at full brightness instead of having to hold it down to go through the whole dimming process to bring it back up to full spectrum.

Thanks for the insight lanelu46. I have a follow up question. If I were not going with a remote fan I would install three way switches. Would you go ahead and do that or just put in one switch?

Some fans such as Casablanca come with a special wall switch in which you can control the speed of the fan and the bright/dimming of the light. This set up requires the fan to be wired with 14/3 or 12/3 if you prefer. Something to consider about remote control fans, obviously lanelu46 loves theirs, however, these remote systems have been know to fail leaving you with an inoperable fan and the remotes are not sold seperatly. This is a good reason to have additional hard wired control.