I have a couple of IR controlled AC Units which I manage with Home Assistant and Broadlink.
I’ve build an Alexa Smart Home Skill that allows me to “bind” multiple Home Assistant entities in to one Smart Thermostat discoverable by Alexa.
With this skill I can natively control my ac with alexa:
- Alexa, turn on the living room ac
- Alexa, set the temperature of the living room ac to 28
- Alexa, set the living room ac to heat
- Alexa, what is the temperature of the living room ac
You can check this skill in action here.
I shared my project in my github, you can visit and check out the instruction I wrote for this project, including the Home Assistant stuff, and not only the alexa stuff.
Here is a link to my repository.
I would love to read what you think of this project.