home-assistant-custom-components

My custom components for http://www.home-assistant.io

Components List

• Samsung Air Conditioner Climate Component

Samsung Air Conditioner Climate Component

This allows you to control your samsung air conditioner basic functions:

• on/off
• target temperature
• mode (heat, cool, dry, ...)

This project is based on awesome work of cicciovo - https://github.com/cicciovo/homebridge-samsung-airconditioner

IMPORTANT: The component only works with samsung air conditioners that allow communication through port 8888.

Installation

• Copy file climate/samsung.py to your ha_config_dir/custom_components/climate directory.
• Copy file ac14k_m.pem to your ha_config_dir directory.
• Add to your ha_config_dir/configuration.yaml the config below.
• Restart Home-Assistant.

NOTE: Assign static IP address to your AC (check your router settings to do that).

Configuration

climate:
  - platform: samsung
    devices:
      - name: Office
        host: *****
        port: 8888
        token: *****
      - name: Living Room
        host: *****
        port: 8888
        token: *****

Configuration variables:

• name (Optional): Name of the device. (default = "RAC")
• host (Required): The IP address of the air conditioner.
• port (Required): The port used to communicate with the device.
• token (Required): Token used to authorize the requests.

Token

To obtain a token for your samsung air conditioner do the following:

• Turn OFF your AC
• Find the ip address of your ac.
• Run python Server8889.py
• Open another shell and run curl -k -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "DeviceToken: xxxxxxxxxxx" --cert /path_to_pem/ac14k_m.pem --insecure -X POST https://IP_ADDRESS:8888/devicetoken/request with the right values for path_to_pem and IP_ADDRESS
• Turn ON your AC
• Check the shell running the file Server8889.py...it should appear the TOKEN.

Confirmed compatibility list (model numbers)

• AR09KSWSBWKNET
• AR12KSWSBWKNET