Add swing support for HVAC units

aph3rson commented 4 years ago

Per sampsyo/wideq#39 and sampsyo/wideq#40, it looks like there's support for querying/setting the swing state on supported HVAC units. Therefore, it would be nice to be able to modify these settings from the component as well.

Some key things to consider:

How should this be exposed in the UI? The default mechanism for the fan speed seems to be sufficient, but is there a better way? (might be a noob-ish question, somewhat new to HA)
Not all HVAC units will support Swing configurations - do we have a way to determine if the HVAC unit doesn't support a swing setting?

Overall, great custom component here - if only the WLAN dongle for my AC was less buggy...

Lex-campbell commented 4 years ago

@aph3rson have you been able to make use of the swing modes via HA?

cynicer commented 3 years ago

One obstacle for the implementation might be the swing mode API in home assistant. As far as I can see (https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/core/entity/climate/#swing-modes) they only support to set a swing in the horizontal, vertical or both, but offer no option to set steps independently (e.g. set the vertical swing to auto and the horizontal to the left most swing).

sampsyo / hass-smartthinq

Add swing support for HVAC units #34