Feature Request: Thermostat work with Air-Con pipe

[soulgriever]

Would love to be able to use the thermostat in walk-in freezers to automatically shut off the outside unit (like with the electric boiler). The quick and dirty way could be an Air-Con Thermostat but would be really sweet if the thermostat had a switch flick for winter/summer like a real one. Thanks for taking the time to read and making a great mod

[Dubwise56]

freezer units have built in thermostats

[Thefatgerbil]

I would please love to have something like this too, With the current system all of the indoor aircon units are just running 24/7, even if its already freezzing inside. It ends up wasting insane amounts of power.

With how it is now, I find it WAY more efficient to just use the vanilla coolers, as they do already use less power (when you account for each indoor unit uses an additional 20W), and they will actually go into a lower power mode when the temperature is reached.

[ilyvion]

Given how long this issue has been open without receiving any attention, I assume nothing will ever come of this, but what I don't get is why the split air con units can't work like real ones:

The inside units tell the outside unit(s) whether they need cooling. Thus, if you have 5 rooms and only 2 need cooling right now, there'd be a demand for 200 U, and the outside unit would set itself to 200 U to meet the demand. If no rooms ask for cooling, the outside unit would turn off, and if there's a higher demand for cooling than the outside units can supply, they'd ramp up to their max of 1000 U each.

It's kind of odd that the outside unit can report "demand/capacity" values, but not automatically adjust to them. Having to micromanage unit power levels isn't anyone's idea of enjoyable, I imagine.