Autopilot Aircon Unit

[tehfonz]

Would love to build in an enhancement to turn the aircon unit itself on/off depending on the following:
If all targeted zones are within their target temperature range - Turn AirCon Off unless AirCon has been ON Less Than x minutes (using Number Input Helper).
If any of the targeted zones go outside of target temp range - Turn AirCon ON unless AirCon has been OFF Less Than y minutes (using Number Input Helper).
I should have added, all of this is triggered by or controlled by a Toggle to tell the app to control the AirCon unit as well as zones.
Basically want to avoid the situation where the aircon turns on / off rapidly, killing motor or something else.
Hope this is doable.
Cheers,
_Fonz

[dgaust]

No guarantees, but I can look into it. I've specifically not included that functionality as I always wanted manual control as the baseline, but can look at how it might work.

[tehfonz]

Totally understand, might constitute a complete rewrite.

[dgaust]

So I've started some work on this, at this stage it will only turn the air conditioner on and set it to heat or cool mode when a temperature sensor passes a particular threshold (as the balancing aspect of the controller should manage the in zone temp correct).

Bascially you set a temp sensor that you want to trigger the action, then a temp you want it to trigger on (both upper and lower) in the apps.yaml

trigger_temp_sensor: sensor.living_room_temperature
trigger_temp_upper: 27
trigger_temp_lower: 18

Once the temp of this sensor exceeds (or drops below) the triggers it will check to see if the airconditioner is off, and if it is it will turn it on and set the mode to either heating or cooling.

It's fairly dumb at the moment, in that it will happen even if no-one is home (I will probably add presence detection or some other method of sanity), but you can try it using the code from this branch https://github.com/dgaust/smarterzones/tree/auto_control

[tehfonz]

Thanks so much for adding this. I will add the branch to my HA, however we don't really use the air-con much during the colder months, and if we do it's all manual with just a quick 10-20 min run.
Really appreciate the effort!

[dgaust]

There were a few issues with the previous version, I have made changes to the code and tested a little more extensively. A couple of additional settings are required in the apps.yaml section, but that has also been updated in this branch.