Daikin AC Integration with HA and AppDaemon

I am running HA V0.114.4 in Docker on a QNAP and have successfully integrated it into my air conditioning. The issue is that I would like to control the air conditioning via AppDaemon.

AppDaemon is installed in a container and working. The issue arises when I attempt to control my air conditioning via AppDaemon.
(a) I can read all the Daikin attributes via AppDaemon
(b) The issue is when I come to write them. If I set the attribute in AppDaemon to ‘Fan_Only’ and the same attribute is sent to ‘Off’ within a lovelace display then it appears that it overwrites any written attributes.

Hence reading attributes is okay but there is conflict when they are written. I believe that the Daikin AC integration doesn’t respect commands coming from AppDaemon. I could put the automation into YAML but it is relatively complex and not well suited.

Does anybody have any suggestions to overcome/work around this issue. All suggestions much appreciated. Thanks