Hi, I’ve bought one of these but I’m a little confused how to set it up. I have the 2.1 version of the device. I’ve tried asking on their website, but my questions aren’t even getting published. So I’m hoping someone here can help.
First of all, when I just plug in the device, the ESPHome integration detects it, I can add it, and it seems to work.
However, I have a few questions:
- I was expecting that the ESPHome Device Builder addon (not integration) would pick it up as well, and I can “adopt” the config, similar to e.g. HA Voice PE. However it doesn’t detect it. Is that expected or is there something wrong with my mDNS discovery (although it does work for other devices).
- The main reason I got this is to automate the “follow me” function, since the internal thermometer inside the AC sucks. Do I always need to solder the “follow me” pad to the AC, even if I update the values through a HA automation? Or is that only required if I want to update the values automatically through ESPHome config?
- Does updating the value through the ESP config even work, since it’s commented out in config on their website? Or does this work only through a HA automation, and the config should remain commented out? I’m talking about this piece of config:
- platform: homeassistant
entity_id: ${follow_me_sensor}
id: follow_me_sensor
filters:
- throttle: 10s
- heartbeat: 2min
- debounce: 1s
on_value:
midea_ac.follow_me:
temperature: !lambda "return x;"
beeper: false