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prasad-edlabadka / homebridge-tuya-ir

Allows homebridge to control Tuya Smart IR based devices
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Better more controls for ir air conditioner #100

Open ckangnz opened 11 months ago

ckangnz commented 11 months ago

I have ir air conditioner accessory added and everything works as expected. I love this plugin and it's exactly what ive been looking for.

  1. Auto temperature

One thing i noticed is that when you set your temperature to Auto, it wants me to set two temperature

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But one of the temperature seems to have no effect.

For example, when i drag the temperature to be 23~30 and let go on the 30, the temperature is set to be 30 on tuya. When i drag from 30 to 23 and let go off on 23, tuya sets it to 23.

Can this be the same as heat/cool mode? So that it just set's a specific temperature instead?

  1. Dehumidifier mode

I only see Heat Cool Auto Off.

{
  "min": 0,
  "max": 4,
  "scale": 0,
  "step": 1,
  "type": "Integer"
}

Could the fourth mode be added please?

Thank you

prasad-edlabadka commented 7 months ago

While Tuya supports whole bunch of modes, Apple HomeKit doesn't. So, unfortunately, what we have is the best what Apple supports as of today (ios17)

ckangnz commented 6 months ago

Can't we at least add buttons to set the mode as dehumidifier or turn on the oscillation

cbrunnkvist commented 1 month ago

While Tuya supports whole bunch of modes, Apple HomeKit doesn't. So, unfortunately, what we have is the best what Apple supports as of today (ios17)

Not precisely correct: the HomeKit AirConditioner controller renders the two set-temperatures that @ckangnz show when the capability of the device is both COOLING and HEATING. I don't think the Tuya API for the remotes makes any distinction between these either - which is why e.g. the native Smart Life app always shows both "Mode: Heating" & "Mode: Cooling" ... But what is generally (=elsewhere such as other competing plugins & the Home Assistant integration) is just a pair boolean user preferences of "noCooling" + "noHeating" to remove the mode that you don't want to/can't use use.

On the user side, HomeKit figures out the rest and not displaying any "Auto" or "Heating" mode if it only can do "Cool" and there'a only one (blue-) slider.