I support, the problem is massive
Hi Everyone,
I had some issues installing and using the GitHub - sampsyo/hass-smartthinq: Home Assistant component for LG SmartThinQ HVAC devices integration, because it didnāt work for me.
Iāve been searching for a solution for the integration of our 2 LG Airco units. and found one that work perfectly! The units that we have are the āLG PC09SQ NSJā (S3NM09JA2FA) and the āLG PC18SQ NSKā (S3NM18KL2FA) both running softwareversion 16.32 that can be found in the Smartthinq app.
The one that works for us and its already posted but still wanted to add the following info about our system:
Home Assistant
version: core-2021.5.4
installation_type: Home Assistant OS
dev: false
hassio: true
docker: true
virtualenv: false
python_version: 3.8.9
os_name: Linux
os_version: 5.4.83-v8
arch: aarch64
host_os: Home Assistant OS 5.13
update_channel: stable
supervisor_version: supervisor-2021.04.3
docker_version: 19.03.15
supported: true
board: rpi4-64
HACS
Integration version:1.12.3
Frontend version: 20210429001005
SmartThinQ LGE Sensors
Version: 0.7.1
And must say that the installation and setup was easy and it worked immediately!
*Edited some typos 
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Thanks, it worked for me too)))
For those who got it added but are not getting any data on their AC (either errors or āunknownā statuses),it also looks like āSmartThinQ LGE Sensorsā has updated to work with the V2 API as well. I tried that vs the one posted above, and all seems to be working with my LG 14,000 BTU portable unit.
Personally I added it via HACS, but if you wanted the Github for manual install:
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Updated to core-2021.6.0b0 and all is working for me now.
hi @FrenkyNL SUPER THANKS for you post. I was worried that my soon to be ordered units were not going to be able to be integrated into HA. But your post stems me hopeful. Excellent!
Bedankt Man. Top.
Hey @wishie - how did you get on with your install? If you recall i have the non-color, non-touchscreen version of the LG wall remote. Which means a seperate hardware panel for me with push-buttons for zone control. The lack of ability for me to control zone airflow in HASS is starting to bug me. Considering shelling out for the upgrade to your unit. But before i do, are you able to control the zones programatically thru HASS?
Thanks for the tip! Works for my AC too.
There was 1 strange issue for me: there was no āSmartThinQ LGE Sensorsā integration until Iāve cleared browserās cache. Maybe someone else finds that useful.
For anyone looking at this (as of Aug-21) using the LG WiFi Dongle is the easiest pathway, but you should use the custom_component ha-smartthinq-sensors as the hass-smartthinq project isnāt supporting v2 of the LG API (older LG accounts will still work but newer ones donāt, and you canāt use a 3rd Party Login like Google/Facebook to have the API work).
Very happy with the setup of my Air Con now. Shows me state, power usage, and temperature (air con setting and the ambient room temp at the wall panel).
You wouldnāt believe it, but Iāve had setback after setback for almost a year nowā¦ the system is mostly installed, and I should be able to answer you question next week. Air-con install was due to be finished a few days ago, but then we went into another covid lockdown that put that on hold.
Oh awesome. I thought id lost you, my only source of intel on this (air con install techs have NFI). If you need help with the HASS setup, lemme know. Good luck!
Itās not just AC techs that have no ideaā¦ I found that solar/battery installers have no idea either, apart from āplug this thing in hereā.
I had to help my installers configure the battery/inverters and connect them to the cloud service lol.
Haha right. Funny you mention solar, my install techs are halfway thru the install, aiming to complete next monday. Bought one of these little beauties ( https://iotawatt.com/ ) to give me per circuit usage telemetry at my switcboard to pull into HASS. The dream being: āsuper hot day? If more current arriving from solar than AC pulls, fire up AC in cooling mode and leave on until otherwiseā.
Iāve got an 8 zone controller as part of my AC, and want to enable/disable zones (the bedrooms mostly) based off humidity, temp, time of day, and battery state of chargeā¦ if one of the kids opens their bedroom window, I want that zone to be disabled also 
oh awesome. Well it seems you DEFINITELY will be solving this problem before i look into upgrading to the color wall control with inbuilt zone control. Look forward to hearing about your journey! Keep us posted in here.
Tell me more about this IoTaWatt thingā¦ what did you need to buy for power reference and stuff?
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Hey mate.
Check out post #91 and beyond over here. Daily energy monitoring - #91 by tom_l
Very helpful folks talked me thru it. But essentially:
- multi-tentacled IoTaWatt one to cover all circuits
- a $30 special transformer from jaycar (you get a link when you hit the āpurchase for ozā button on the iotawatt site - this is reference power (whatever that is!)
- any old microUSB to power the unit itself. I had a load of these around the house.
I ordered a few weeks ago. Just had notification its left the states. So takes some time.
Sounds like it will be handy.
Just to throw some more variables in the mix, Iāve decided to pull 3-phase power to my houseā¦ so, AC should be done monday//tuesday, 3-phase should be done by next weekend, and now Iāll order up an IoTaWattā¦
Thanks for the help. Iāll report back with my AC findings hopefully early next week.
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Just ordered the IoTaWatt and a bunch of CT clamps for itā¦ came out to around $450 AUD (ouch - I paid for express postage though) and have a mate picking up the power adapter from Jaycar for me today.
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A/C is āinstalledā but I havenāt yet connected the zone controller. We will finish putting the ducting etc in tomorrow morning.
For now, I have turned the unit on and it functions, and shows up in Home Assistantā¦ so this is a good start.
UPDATE: I canāt seem to control the A/C from Home Assistantā¦ I get an error when it calls the API. I can, however, read values from the unit just fine.
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