First of all thank you all for the great inputs. I have been developing my smart home set up slowly over the years…but not quite tehre yet. Started HA, more seriously at least, very recently. Already, have some basice automations going,…mainly with the help of this forum.
However, I have one automation I would like to set up, initially on the ground floor and then replicate it over 5 bedrooms.
Basically, now I have a H&T sensor (shelly plus HT) that is providing T and H data into HA, and then I have a tuya IR blaster to turn on and off the air cons (currently working via predifined scenes, like heating, cooling, dehumidifying, turn off)
Any suggestion, on how to make all this automatic based in values from the sensors that I could also change via some card?
The easiest way to go about this is to add a generic thermostat to do the hard work. You can create one using the gui in the helpers section.
But first you’ll need to set up a template switch that sends the on/off commands using the ir blaster. That too can be done using the gui in the helpers section:
Done this way, you do not even need an automation, and you’ll get a nice thermostat UI.
This actually looks interesting. Managed to create both already, but I still have a couple of doubts:
I am using scenes in my tuya ir balster for basic operations like heating, cooling, dehumidifying and turn off. I believe i need to create a switch per scene, right? Or would you suggest better approach?
Would it be possible to also have similar approach to humidity control?
Will I need three thermostats, coolig, heating and humidity?
The generic thermostat supports heat and cool, but depending on how your device works, you might need to make the on/off switch smarter. For (de)humidiefiers there’s the generic hygrostat:
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Thanks for the quick feedback. What do you mean on depending on how my device works? The sensor os a shelly plus HT, the IR blaster is from tuya and AC is daikin…
do you reckon I need also a switch for heating, using same thermostat?
and consequently one for dehumidifying since I will have a new “sensor” as well?
I do not know anything about the AC and how it works, I have a different IR blaster too. So I can point you to the building blocks but I don’t know how to configure them, because I don’t know how to control your AC.
Would you reckon that using scenes in tuya ir blaster is the best option? By this way I would need to creat all scenes and call them upon certain conditions are met.
Or would you suggest other approach for this project?
