Controlling Delonghi Air conditioner

[duodiscu92]

Hello,
I have a Delonghi "Pinguino" (PAC EX 100 Silent) mobile air conditioner that can be remotely controlled by a remote control.
Does anyone know on which standard Delonghi air conditioner remote controls are based (infrared ? radio frequency ? protcols ?).
This could help me for an integration in Domoticz.
Thank you.

[Marci]

Going off universal remotes that claim to support that model, it _should_ be infrared...

Generally I’d fire up lircd / irrecord on Raspberry Pi with an IR Receiver attached, and just learn the remote’s buttons using irrecord. Take the config file it generates, and copy it’s contents into /etc/lircd/lircd.conf, then knock up python scripts to call the relevant irsend command for each button of the remote. Create virtual push buttons in domoticz for each button on the remote, with a 2sec auto-off, and whichever python script as the on command, then integrate those into my LUA thermostat / heating control system.

See http://www.lirc.org and http://lirc-remotes.sourceforge.net/remotes-table.html for existing remote profiles for LIRCD (no delonghi ones tho, so it’ll have to be learnt).

[duodiscu92]

Thank you so much and sorry for my late reply.

[brommetje]

Hi @duodiscu92 is it working for you controlling you airco?
And if so which IR receiver/transmitter do you use?

Martin

[duodiscu92]

Hi Martin

I am so sorry to reply so late, but I was very busy and I lost my id and pwd.
So, yes Delonghi remote control via Domoticz works well
Please look at my wiki for more details
http://yadalo.no-ip.org/dokuwiki/doku.p ... i_serie_ex

Hope it will help you (if not too late)

Regards.
Jacques

[brommetje]

Hi Jacques,

Your link is not working.

Regards,
Martin

[duodiscu92]

Sorry Martin and thank you for the alert ... my server was halted (I don't no why ).
I just restarted it, so now I think you can access my wiki (please let me know if not)
Jacques

[brommetje]

Hi @Jacques

A few months ago I both an USB Adapter IR Infrarood Transponder do you think this can work with your wike?
In combination with the irsend.c file or maybe another way? Hardware part is more difficult and with the IR usb adapter less.

https://star.aliexpress.com/share/shar ... ocialShare

Thanks Martin

[duodiscu92]

Hi MArtin

Difficult to answer. On the Aliexpress website there is no technical information. If you have a datasheet of the product, please let send me a scan that could help me to understand how the device works? What I understand is that it is rather intended to function as a relay to increase the range of a remote control. The difficulty will be to send the codes of the De Longhi to the USB socket, no doubt you need a driver that goes with the transponder.
Working with USB socket in generally not simple.

However the hardware I describe on my wiki is available ready to use on ANAVI website on this link.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/anavi-techn ... rared-phat
It's a Pi Hat to plug on a raspberry pi.
I bought it but did not find the time to test it.

Regards
Jacques