pyzgan

Make my electra mazgan (air conditioner) work with my pi

Yup, another electra air conditioner repository.

Prerequisites:

• Clone and set up Electra-AC-Remote and follow the instructions there
• Set up your raspberry pi to auto connect to your network, and reserve the ip-address in your router
• Install node on your pi. I found this guide to be very helpful.

Installation on your pi:

• ssh into your pi
• Clone pyzgan
• cd pyzgan
• nano server/.env :

PORT=server_port
NODE_ENV=not_development
DEBUG=false
PATH_TO_ELECTRA=path_to_Electra-AC-Remote_binary

• nano client/.env :

REACT_APP_API_URL=http://your_pi_ip:server_port
PORT=client_port

• cd client/ && npm install
• cd .. && cd server
  • npm install
  • nano remoteSchedule.json
    • {"oneTime":[],"scheduled":[]}
  • nano remoteState.json
    • {"temp":21,"fan":1,"mode":"heat","power":true}
• set up start scripts for the client and server
  • sudo systemctl enable pyzganclient.service
  • sudo systemctl enable pyzganserver.service

Example service files:

See here for more details

[Unit]
Description=Pyzgan Client Service
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/npm start
WorkingDirectory=your_instalation_directory/pyzgan/client
StandardOutput=inherit
StandardError=inherit
Restart=always
User=pi

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

[Unit]
Description=Pyzgan Server Service
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/npm run dev
WorkingDirectory=your_instalation_directory/pyzgan/server
StandardOutput=inherit
StandardError=inherit
Restart=always
User=pi

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target    

Related Electra projects:

• https://github.com/nryhbhue/Electra-AC-Remote
• https://github.com/barakwei/IRelectra
• https://github.com/urish/ir-electra
• https://github.com/alonf/ElectraACRemote/tree/master/ElectraACRemote
• https://github.com/dhkron/pyir
• https://github.com/itamaro/home-control-arduino

Related projects and guides:

• https://github.com/GeReV/airconditioner_remote
• https://blog.bschwind.com/2016/05/29/sending-infrared-commands-from-a-raspberry-pi-without-lirc/
• http://alexba.in/blog/2013/01/06/setting-up-lirc-on-the-raspberrypi/
• https://blog.digilentinc.com/using-a-raspberry-pi-as-a-universal-remote/
• https://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-Zero-Universal-Remote/
• https://raspberrytips.nl/raspberry-pi-infrarood-afstandsbediening-lirc/
• http://www.raspberry-pi-geek.com/Archive/2015/10/Raspberry-Pi-IR-remote
• http://www.harctoolbox.org/IrScrutinizer.html
• https://github.com/z3t0/Arduino-IRremote