esphome / esphome/feature-requests
Add ability to control lights on Midea AC
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Description
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The ability to control the on/off state of the display on Midea AC unitsPlease describe your use case for this integration and alternatives you've tried:
The cloud control for Midea AC has the ability to turn off the display, but this is lost when control is swapped out for ESPAdditional context
Mac Zhou has this implemented on his msmart control for Midea units.
@property
def screen_display(self):
return self.data[0x14] & 0x10 > 0
@screen_display.setter
def screen_display(self, screen_display_enabled: bool):
# the LED lights on the AC. these display temperature and are often too bright during nights
if screen_display_enabled:
self.data[0x14] |= 0x10
else:
self.data[0x14] &= (~0x10)
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Research direction
Start by comparing the ESP implementation with Mac Zhou’s msmart control, especially the screen_display property and byte 0x14 bit 0x10. Trace where Midea AC command data is assembled; done means exposing display on/off control for ESP while preserving the requested state.
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- embedded-iot
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- Feature
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