external temperature sensor

[sygys]

Hey Dominik / @DomiStyle ,

Its been some time since we spoke. My ac's run like a charm for quite some time now with your code. I remember scrolling through your files and excel sheet back in the day when i started using this to see which bits and bites of the long code do stuff. I also remember that in those files there were some bits of code which did nothing or atleast you couldnt figure out what they were for.

Running the ac for some time now i notice that the measured indoor temperature of the AC unit is pretty off from the real temperature. I was wondering if maybe some of these bits of code are there to communicate with the ac for hooking up an external temp sensor.

Im not even sure if this is an option for these AC's because i havent found any online. But it would be awsome to let HA post the temperature to the AC from an external sensor. Though im not sure if you are still working on this project and are willing to do some digging into this. I dont believe there are bits of code the AC is communicating that dont mean anything. Every part of the code the ac's is posting back is for something i guess...

At the moment i use node red with a pid node. i have a tempsensor and a desired temperature that is set to a specific temperature. THe PID node calculates the difference in wished temp and the temp measured in the room and if its to high the AC temp is set accordingly to the PID output calculated in a temperature between 16 and 30 degrees celsius. this lets me control the room temperature up to 0.1 degree accuracy but the temp send to the AC goes all over the place and i wonder if this will shorten the life of the AC. It would be better if the internal PID of the ac itself did the temp monitoring correctly and adjusted the power accordingly

Also one more thing. I noticed that since updating the AC's esp to the latest esphome version the logs dont show the communication of the AC and the long bitcode anymore. Do you know a way to get this communication back?

Just wanted to say that this piece of code is by far the best work i have ever seen someone do in home assistant. This integration of the AC locally is GOLD!

[DomiStyle]

Running the ac for some time now i notice that the measured indoor temperature of the AC unit is pretty off from the real temperature. I was wondering if maybe some of these bits of code are there to communicate with the ac for hooking up an external temp sensor.

I doubt there's such a feature in there since Panasonic would most likely advertise it.

Also one more thing. I noticed that since updating the AC's esp to the latest esphome version the logs dont show the communication of the AC and the long bitcode anymore. Do you know a way to get this communication back?

It still does when verbose logging is enabled.

Just wanted to say that this piece of code is by far the best work i have ever seen someone do in home assistant. This integration of the AC locally is GOLD!

Good to hear it has been of use to people besides me.