midea_ac.follow_me to send temperature updates in Fahrenheit instead of celsius

dbaq commented 4 months ago

Describe the problem you have/What new integration you would like

The climate component for Midea works splendidly. I've also added an IR transmitter to use the "follow me" feature (described here https://esphome.io/components/climate/midea#additional-control-options-using-ir-commands).

Everything works well but when the temperature sensor has a new value and midea_ac.follow_me is being called, the display on the minisplit unit switches to celsius. Using the remote that comes with the minisplit reverts the display back to fahrenheit but it will go back to celsius again the next time the temperature is updated from esphome (i.e. 2min later).

I am hoping midea_ac.follow_me could accept a third parameter (use_fahrenheit:true) to send the temperature via IR in fahrenheit.

Here is my config currently, note how I have to convert the farenheit temp sensor to celsius as well.

  - platform: homeassistant
    name: Room Temperature Sensor
    entity_id: sensor.primary_bedroom_sensor_temperature   # Sensor from HASS
    internal: true
    filters:
      - throttle: 10s
      - heartbeat: 2min             # Maximum interval between updates.
      - debounce: 1s
      - lambda: return (x - 32.0) * (5.0/9.0);
    on_value:
      midea_ac.follow_me:
        temperature: !lambda "return x;"
        beeper: false

Please describe your use case for this integration and alternatives you've tried:

People in the USA are not used to Celsius 🙃
I tried to use the minisplit remote to force an override but it does not stick.

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Thank you!

DjordjeMandic commented 4 days ago

Can you do pronto capture of follow me signal from remote when display is set in F?

dbaq commented 4 days ago

I am not familiar with that but happy to give it a try. Can you point me to any kind of docs by any chance?

DjordjeMandic commented 4 days ago

@dbaq Could you test #7762 pull request ?

dbaq commented 3 days ago

@DjordjeMandic you rock. I will give it a try.

dbaq commented 3 days ago

works wonderfully!!! https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/7762#issuecomment-2477188926

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midea_ac.follow_me to send temperature updates in Fahrenheit instead of celsius #2790