Use excess electricity to run the airconditioning

Procedure

Creating the controls and devices

1. Create each indoor unit you want to control individually. 
   In this example, we will control 2 indoor units
   Create airco1 as 'generic heating' player (AIRCO1)
   Create airco2 as 'generic heating' player (AIRCO2)

2. Create an equal number of virtual devices than the number of indoor units you want to control. 
   Create virtual device 1 (VIRT1)
   Create virtual device 2 (VIRT2)

3. Create a virtual device (VIRT3) 
   This virtual device will make it possible to determine whether the air conditioners can be controlled by the solar mode or not. 
   
   

Creating the action(s) and routine(s)

1. Create the routine Solar mode (ROUT1). 
   Configure the following behaviour:
   Select devices that should be activated in solar mode= 
   VIRT1
   VIRT2

2. Create a basic action "solar control for airconditioner" (BASIC1) to control virtual device3 (VIRT3). 
   
   

Creating the conditions

To combine the information from solar mode and basic action to control the air conditioner, we create a condition per indoor unit:

1. Create a condition (COND1) to control AIRCO1:
   IF VIRT1= true AND VIRT3= true 
   THEN AIRCO1: status = on
   ELSE AIRCO1: status = off

2. Create a condition (COND1) to control AIRCO2:
   IF VIRT2= true AND VIRT3= true 
   THEN AIRCO2: status = on
   ELSE AIRCO2: status = off
   
   

Not every type of generic heating offers the same possibilities for 'status'.
Choose the most suitable status according to the partner system used by the customer.