It’s already 25DegC in my home office.

The best cooling automation I have so far is to turn the fan on when it’s 25 for >5mins.

Is there a nice zigbee / ESP32 evaporation cooler that I can enjoying setting up with HA?

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    2 months ago

    Remember that a fan does not cool the environment. It cools you due to pushing the hot air away from you, but it does not actually cool the air itself. I have a dumb window air conditioning unit in my room that I’ve connected to a smart plug and I’m using the forecast temperature from the weather provider to automate it turning on. Eventually, I think I’ll actually get a temperature sensor and switch the automation from the online forecast to the sensor instead. But the online forecast is cheaper, so that’s how I’ve at least started out.