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teodoradima / homebridge-samsung-air-conditioner-smart-things

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Excellent for Samsung Windfree ACs #7

Open fate8383 opened 2 years ago

fate8383 commented 2 years ago

I have been looking for this many months, finally something works with this air condition I have. I have been using smartthings plugin and hated it every day and night as it is completely unreliable, does not sync status and also the plugin stopped being maintained. This is excellent and after I confirmed/tested it is working, I even deleted completely smartthings plugin from homebridge. Thanks a lot!

gvchagas commented 2 years ago

I agree with everything that has been said! it's a great plugin and I was finally able to use the air conditioning in HomeKit. as a suggestion, it would be interesting for the air conditioner's internal thermostat to be shown as a separate device, since as it is it is not possible to create automations in HomeKit based on temperature.

paqpaqpaq commented 2 years ago

I agree with everything that has been said! it's a great plugin and I was finally able to use the air conditioning in HomeKit. as a suggestion, it would be interesting for the air conditioner's internal thermostat to be shown as a separate device, since as it is it is not possible to create automations in HomeKit based on temperature.

https://github.com/0x4a616e/homebridge-smartthings-ac#readme That one does so

fate8383 commented 2 years ago

I agree with everything that has been said! it's a great plugin and I was finally able to use the air conditioning in HomeKit. as a suggestion, it would be interesting for the air conditioner's internal thermostat to be shown as a separate device, since as it is it is not possible to create automations in HomeKit based on temperature.

https://github.com/0x4a616e/homebridge-smartthings-ac#readme That one does so

this one does not work with wind free model, at least for me.

paqpaqpaq commented 2 years ago

@fate8383 that is weird, because it does so here.

{ "token": "xxxxxxxxxx", "minTemperature": 16, "maxTemperature": 30, "updateInterval": 15, "platform": "HomebridgeSmartThingsAC" },

fate8383 commented 2 years ago

@fate8383 that is weird, because it does so here.

{ "token": "xxxxxxxxxx", "minTemperature": 16, "maxTemperature": 30, "updateInterval": 15, "platform": "HomebridgeSmartThingsAC" },

https://github.com/0x4a616e/homebridge-smartthings-ac/issues/3#issue-959076144 I have this issue and will not install another hap-nodejs just to not mess things up

paqpaqpaq commented 2 years ago

Just install the lib I would say :)

The issue with this (topic) plugin, is that it only fetches the state when restarting HB. In other words: if you switch on the AC, which it will, and close the home app, re-open again, the home app will say it is off. This could be problematic when trying to make changes when away. Also if you would change something when running (and home claims it is off) it needs to resend all commands agan. So if you even open temp setting or mode it is in, it starts sending commands. Just makes no sense. https://github.com/teodoradima/homebridge-samsung-air-conditioner-smart-things/issues/4

That is why I switched to the other plugin, which behaves as one would expect.

fate8383 commented 2 years ago

Just install the lib I would say :)

The issue with this (topic) plugin, is that it only fetches the state when restarting HB. In other words: if you switch on the AC, which it will, and close the home app, re-open again, the home app will say it is off. This could be problematic when trying to make changes when away. Also if you would change something when running (and home claims it is off) it needs to resend all commands agan. So if you even open temp setting or mode it is in, it starts sending commands. Just makes no sense. #4

That is why I switched to the other plugin, which behaves as one would expect.

ok took the advice and switched to the other plugin by installing the lib, it works. thanks