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by nucleardog 665 days ago
Yeah there’s very few edge cases, imo, where you need the feedback.

I have home assistant controlling an air conditioner in one room. (Well, mostly Node-RED.)

Every couple minutes it checks the temperature in the room and makes a decision on whether to call for cooling and tells the AC to turn on or off.

If it’s already on and cooling and it tells it to turn on… it’s a no-op, nothing happens. If it tells it to turn on and the command doesn’t go through… the room will stay warm so it will try the same thing in a couple of minutes. Same thing the other way (turning it off).