Automation for better air conditioning. Any hint?

[Snedig (Preben Dyrholm)]

I posted how I do it (with a heat pump rather than a pure airconditioner), but my automation is built on the premise that you have full control of the IR commands. Anyway, it might help you out?

Automated heat pump!

I have a heat pump, but two factors has made me want to let HA get control of it: The heat pump thermostat is really quite poor, and will result in wildly varying indoor temperatures. Partly due to this, my wife handles the remote a lot, and tends to overcorrect somewhat… (Hello Antarctica!) So I did a bit of research and found this library: His libraries work with ESPEasy, and since I had a NodeMCU lying about, I managed to get that working with HA, connected a BME280 temp/humidity/press…