Gree AC Swing modes not fully supported

[ic-dev21]

The problem

It is not possible to choose a fixed vertical or horizontale positions, only swing modes.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

Home Assistant 2023.2.3

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant Container

Integration causing the issue

Gree

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/gree/

Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

No response

Additional information

I have not tried this custom integration but this seems like it would work;

Replacing this:

https://github.com/home-assistant/core/blob/1e056970800d236a84535d817e01e2a93796f3c1/homeassistant/components/gree/climate.py#L86

With this:

https://github.com/RobHofmann/HomeAssistant-GreeClimateComponent/blob/7947b7fe129c7caee0089aa676b273eafd0b6d2f/custom_components/gree/climate.py#L69

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[ic-dev21]

Still an issue.

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[geraldnolan]

+1

I would like to be able to control the direction of swing like you can in the app.

[bradleewright]

I found a way to get it working - Gree Extension for Home-Assistant built in integration installed via HACS.

It lets you move the swing position via a service call - Works really well

[ic-dev21]

That is a nice workaround but I think it should be fixed in the native integration, thanks for letting me know.

[GBCRAS1]

I do agree that the GREE Native integration should offer these capabilities.

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[darmach]

Still persists

[ic-dev21]

Using node-red to do this right now but native gree should work

[almostlunatic]

I would be very happy with that fix for swing angles, too. That is very important to me, living far away from my home for a long time. So, would you please fix tis issue, it shouldn't be so hard to do?

From the divice's manual:

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[ic-dev21]

Still an issue. Using node red to compensate.

[orzechszek]

Hi,

Any updates on this feature? Summer is comming... 😄 I think should be added possiblity to change horizontal and vertical swing separately.

[geraldnolan]

Any updates on this? Summer is here and I'd love to be able to change the swing to one direction and not only "swing horizontally"

@ic-dev21 How are you using Node Red to compensate?

[ic-dev21]

Any updates on this? Summer is here and I'd love to be able to change the swing to one direction and not only "swing horizontally"

@ic-dev21 How are you using Node Red to compensate?

I found this Node-Red component: https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-gree-hvac

I suck at node-red as I can't really wrap my mind around this but I came up with this flow, probably isn't the best or most efficient but it works:

My mini split is in the dining room, open floor space with living room and kitchen. It's near the dining table. So when someone sits at the table I flip a boolean ON using a motion snesor in Home Assistant and pass it on to Node Red.

If I'm in heating mode, vertical swing is fully down, as heat rises and I want my heating to be efficient. That means that someone at the table would get blasted with heat. So when the sensor is ON, swing mode moves up and away from the dining table until nobody is around the table for like 15 minutes.

[geraldnolan]

@ic-dev21 - Thanks for sharing! Your post gave me a few ideas. I decided to install the HACS component from this link: HomeAssistant-GreeClimateComponent.

Not sure why I waited so long to do this. Now, I have full control over the swing mode, and the Fan Mode "Quiet" works perfectly every time, unlike the default one worked sometimes.

[janmashat]

I have not tried this custom integration but this seems like it would work;

Replacing this:

https://github.com/home-assistant/core/blob/1e056970800d236a84535d817e01e2a93796f3c1/homeassistant/components/gree/climate.py#L86

With this:

https://github.com/RobHofmann/HomeAssistant-GreeClimateComponent/blob/7947b7fe129c7caee0089aa676b273eafd0b6d2f/custom_components/gree/climate.py#L69

The implementation should ideally utilize the dependent library's range of swing modes: https://github.com/cmroche/greeclimate/blob/master/greeclimate/device.py#L67-L91

The problem is that those are separated into VerticalSwing and HorizontalSwing, while the HA climate entity only supports a single swing_mode property: https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/core/entity/climate/#swing-modes

There's a discussion to add horizontal swing, so hopefully that will get some traction: https://github.com/home-assistant/architecture/discussions/553

[Xenomes]

I would be very happy with that fix for swing angles, too. That is very important to me, living far away from my home for a long time. So, would you please fix tis issue, it shouldn't be so hard to do?

From the divice's manual:

I would also like to have the swing angles available to select in order to operate the air conditioner! This could have a separate selection button, just like the panel light.

[faniskou]

+1 vote here , toyotomi air conditions using the gree interface and the swing modes

[orzechszek]

Based on mentioned architecture topic it will take a while.. I still vote for this, because I have to use another integrations 😞