Hi, I’m looking to retrofit the MyAir AirCon solution into my old ducted Mitsubishi system. The company, who are incredibly helpful, have confirmed it’s possible despite the system being installed about 18 years ago!
I know that the product they have, MyAir, is available in Home Assistant, however they have a new product just released called MyPlaceIQ. I believe it works in the same way but rather than being a tablet, is just a bridge. This is cheaper as you can do away with the tablet option and just use the app on your device to control everything.
My question to the wonderful people here is how likely is it that the Advantage Air Integration will work, or be updated to work, with this new solution? There is an API, similar (the same?) to the tablet but the person I’m talking to in the company can’t say if it’ll work until it’s been tested by someone that develops for Home Assistant.
My gut says it’ll be fine but I don’t want to jump into the tablet free solution to find I can’t then integrate to HA. That’s the whole point of this retrofit - it’s my last non-smart device in my home as nothing has been availabel before now to fix it!
I’m in the same boat. If i can do away with getting a dedicated tablet just for the Aircon and use my HA dashboard that would be ideal.
I think the MyPlaceiQ upgrade is cheaper ($850 last time i asked for a quote) than the MyAir.
I did send the developer of the MyAir integration and he suggested it hasn’t been tested and also could not confirm it would work especially if the API has changed.
Have you organised the install yet ot still on the fence as to which one to get?
I ended up going with MyPlace without the tablet. The cost was about $500 more for MyAir and it was only an 8" tablet and the upgrade to a 10" was another $500!
I’m pretty fortunate that I already have a permanent HA tablet pretty much right beside the current Aircon controller so I’m sticking with that for now. Fingers crossed it works with HA but I’m pretty confident that it will. Worst case I install the app on that tablet and control it that way. It’s just a different hub really so the API may even be the same. I’ll report back in March once it’s been installed.
I booked in the hope it integrates but I was so excited to finally be able to make my almost 20 year Aircon smart that I just jumped anyway!
Good to know, AdvantageAir did reply on their page noting the API between the two were different.
From what i understand the tablet is the controller with MyAir though so without it the HA integration won’t work. Will be interesting to hear your experience.
If i can do without the tablet that would be best.
Well the system is installed and working well as a standalone solution.
The install team couldn’t have been nicer or more professional. Unfortunately no sneaky integration with HA using the older MyAir Integration which wasn’t a surprise but I had hope! One downside for anyone thinking of the same thing is that the current app functionality doesn’t allow you to schedule on/off times. While it’s supposed to have smart features, the app isn’t working “just now”. That’s annoying and something I wasn’t aware of but hopefully as it’s relatively new, these features will be added. Without that automation or integration with HA I’m stuck with a manual activation although it has a simple off timer that works. Not ideal. Hopefully someone smart reads this and wants the challenge of trying to figure out how to get it into HA. Happy to help with testing if that’s the case!
We had ours installed towards the end of December, a coupleof days before I was offered the MyPlaceIQ over the tablet on the wall system, figuring that is was from the same team it would be the same intergration, was a bit dissapointed but did not realise till later. The installer had some issues and had to get one of the guys from Advange out. I only walked back in the house towards the end of his visit and did not get a chance to ask a couple of questions, HA was one of the questions I had along with how oftern in is the system updated. all going well HA may come but going by the app it looks like they want control the house.
Yeah, I don’t want to be too harsh as I think the product has great potential, especially on an older aircon system but there are some serious gaps that should have been made clear before I bought as it could/probably would have changed my decison on the product to buy. No scheduling is just an amazing gap in any “smart” product. I’m in discussion with the team so will continue to update as I have news but for me, just now, I wouldn’t buy this product in the current state. I’ve told them I need something by winter as scheduled hearting is more important to me than cooling but we’ll see what develops…
Interesting to hear both of your feedback regarding MyPlace IQ. Looks like i might go for MyAir, I think i am also upgrading my lights to MyLIghts too as it will allow me to intergrate those into HA also.
To get MyPlaceIQ into home assistant i assume it could be as easy as getting the integration to use the new API that MyPlaceIQ uses.
I’m not game enough to get MyPlaceIQ though and have these features I can get with MyAir missing.
Yeah, the other annoyance is that now my control panel no longer works, I can’t see at a glance if the aircon is on. I have to open the app. If you have the tablet it would be more obvious, or at least you can go and check it in the same way I used to for the old control panel. If I’d known then what I know now, I would have gone the MyAir option. I do expect MyPlace will catch up eventually but there’s no confirmed timeline and the lack of features are a significant downside.
Personally I wouldn’t integrate my lights into MyAir if you already have HA. Just add the MyAir integration and any smart bulbs you like. I beleive that MyAir use hue bulbs and hub so you’re locked into a more expensive ecosystem (good but more expensive). I have hue bulbs that I migrated to ZHA to get rid of the propriatory hub but the majority are now Yeelight or generic Zigbee bulbs controlled through ZHA. Even if you go MyAir, you don’t need to take anything other than the aircon control and you can still integrate and control everything via HA.
I agree that getting MyPlace into HA should just be a case of adding the new API to the existing integration or perhaps copying and making a new one with the new API (I’m no developer so take that with the expertise I have!). Based on the comments I’ve had of lack of Google Home integration, that API availablilty isn’t coming any time soon. It should be added that Alexa doesn’t work with either product any longer and I was told that was due to Amazon now charging companies for their integrations so Advantage dropped the functionality.
