Hi all.
I’ve dealing some months with my Mirage AC unit by sending cloned IR codes to control it due to lack of support, until I noticed recently that Mirage IR protocol has been added to ESPHome. So I did a Climate Component for controlling Mirage AC units on the ESPHome that I would like to share. It has been programmed by taking Whirlpool AC component as a reference. It works just fine, hope it helps to another fellow HA enthusiasts.
I just have a question. My IR remote controller has a button for toggling AC display (it can be very bright when the lights are off), so I would like to add it to the mentioned component. However, it seems that ESPHome and HA AC component does not contemplate turning on/off the unit display.
Do you have any ideas of how can it be implemented? Maybe by extending the AC component in ESPHome but I don’t know how HA can see this new option. FWIW, the display is toggled by sending 0x08 in the 4th byte using the mirage protocol, so I can’t just do a toggle button because the entire IR code needs to be sent.
Thank you in advance, best regards