I have been meaning to get either the wifi adapter or the Faikin ESP32 for my Daikin. We recently set up a samsung TV, and the “smart things” on it asked if I wanted to connect my Daikin air conditioner. I did and it controlled it just fine.
I tried doing a scan of Zigbee and did not discover it, then I tried adding the integration for Z-wave but ran into problems.
I searched around on line but couldn’t find anything. Does anyone have any idea how my TV knew it was there? Was it Zigbee, Z-wave or something completely different???
I know they are different. I want to bring it into my HA. If it has some sort of communication on board, then I will attempt to bring it in, I just need to know what it is.
It’s a little late, but I had the same thing happen with my Aufit minisplit. I think it’s recognizing it and able to control it over IR by emulating the remote. There’s two-way IR communication, so I assume the TV notices that and then offers to be a bridge between smartthings and your air conditioner. Not as useful as a direct connection to Home Assistant, though, so getting the adapter is probably the better option.