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  • Feb 9, 2022

    Controlling Coolix-compatible AC using OpenBeken/OpenBK7231T-Compatible IR Blaster

    A lot of new cheap chinese IoT-thingies come with custom Tuya ESP pin-compatible boards, which are incompatible with ESPHome or Tasmota, but compatible with OpenBeken.

    However, OpenBeken is still in kinda-early stages of development and IR support on official builds is a bit limited. So you would need to use a version from pull request that implements much more IR features, including the ability to send COOLIX commands, without friendly interface, sadly.

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  • Feb 9, 2022 MDT and time zones

    Almost every post/tutorial on setting default timezone in MDT says to use value from tzutil /g.

    In addition to that, MDT documentation on TimeZoneName specifies to use value for Unattend.xml, which references to tzutil yet again. So it should work, right? Right?

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