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jhschuster / homebridge-intesisweb

Homebridge plugin for IntesisHome devices
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Fan mode #12

Open Chublo opened 1 year ago

Chublo commented 1 year ago

hey, our system has the following options: cool heat auto dry fan

Dry and Fan options don't appear in the plugin, and if they are selected in the system (not homekit) it causes issues in homekit (ie 0 temp and not working properly). Just wondering if this could be an easy fix or not? PS - really appreciate this plugin!

t-stern commented 1 year ago

I think the issue is that Apple HomeKit only accepts Auto/Heat/Cool/Off as far as I could see in multiple threads that I saw about that issue. I have the same 'issue' I only use Dry and Heat, so I always have to set Dry via the AC-Cloud App. I had a look at the code of the HomeBridge plugin and from my basic knowledge of coding it looks to me like as if you could basically try to cheat a bit and eg 'connect' Cool mode to Dry mode and Auto to Fan under the hood. So if you select Cool in HomeKit it actually sends the command 'Dry' to AC-Cloud ... not pretty but might work but I think that's about it. But you would of course then lose Cool and Auto mode. The only other hope would be to wait until HomeKit expands the mode with Fan and Dry.... would not hold my breath for that though. Hope that makes sense and please correct me if I'm getting it wrong.