Closed dianlight closed 2 months ago
FYI, I don't believe the bk7231t etc is part of the ESP chip family. The IRremoteESP8266 library only supports the ESP8266 & ESP32 family of chips.
I've encountered the same issue when using
climate: platform: heatpumpir
I understand the comments about the BK72xx not being ESP chips, but the curious thing is that I have a working BK72xx device using this config:
climate: platform: mitsubishi
So I wonder how does the mitsubishi configuration successfully send IR commands to the Beken chip ?!
So I wonder how does the mitsubishi configuration successfully send IR commands to the Beken chip ?!
That is something you will have to ask the ESPHome community. I have no idea.
If ESP32
or ESP8266
are not defined, you will get the error you orginally described.
@crankyoldgit thanks for chiming in here.
I'm the codeowner for this part of esphome
, and I agree with your perspective.
We'll resolve this internally and won't need to involve your crankyoldgit/IRremoteESP8266
repo.
PS thanks for creating and maintaining IRremoteESP8266
! I've used it a few times and its very helpful.
I've encountered the same issue when using
climate: platform: heatpumpir
I understand the comments about the BK72xx not being ESP chips, but the curious thing is that I have a working BK72xx device using this config:
climate: platform: mitsubishi
So I wonder how does the mitsubishi configuration successfully send IR commands to the Beken chip ?!
That's a good quesiton, and its answered in the ESPHome documentation:
The heatpumpir platform supports dozens of manufacturers and hundreds of AC units by utilising the Arduino-HeatpumpIR library.
This platform should only be used if your AC unit is not supported by any of the other (native) platforms. No support can be provided for Arduino-HeatpumpIR, because it is a third party library.
The heatpumpir platform doesn't currently work on BK72xx chips. Fixes for this are being discussed in https://github.com/esphome/esphome/pull/6955 .
The problem
I have a compiler error when I add climete/heatpumpir to my config.
Which version of ESPHome has the issue?
2023.12.9
What type of installation are you using?
Home Assistant Add-on
Which version of Home Assistant has the issue?
2024.1
What platform are you using?
BK72XX
Board
generic-bk7231t-qfn32-tuya
Component causing the issue
climate/heaypimpir
Example YAML snippet
Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?
Additional information
No response