Smart Home Tips: How to Control Your Air Conditioning with Local Connection and Avoid Overloading the Cloud

Suppose you want to set: when the air conditioning comes on, I want to close the curtains. Or, what I have set here: if the air conditioning has been on and turns off, do not actually turn it off, but only ventilate for another 5 minutes (tip from the maintenance man who came to sweep the mold out of the air conditioning every year).
Then it is nice to be able to check that often.

With a local connection to your air conditioning, this is no problem, no one will be bothered (except perhaps you) if your smart home device pings your air conditioning.
Now that everything has to be done via the cloud, Daikin has to process all those pings. If you check every minute, that is 60 * 24 = 1440 ping moments per day. If a million customers do that….

That’s why it would be nice if Daikin would just make/keep it possible locally.

I have a Daikin air conditioner here and deliberately chose Daikin because it worked well with Homey. I am very curious whether I will be able to automatically switch on my air conditioning again this summer based on the current indoor temperature and the status of the solar panels, or whether the new app for this is not yet available for Homey.

2024-02-15 09:55:09
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