In order to measure the power of the air conditioner, I equipped it with a Huawei Smart Air Conditioner Companion

Now each air conditioning brand has smart air conditioning products, smart air conditioning can be remotely controlled by mobile phone, very convenient. The smart product introduced in this article can turn ordinary air conditioners into smart air conditioners, which is Huawei's smart remote control master air conditioner companion. This article also leads to a question, is it better to buy air conditioners directly than to buy smart air conditioners, or is it better to buy a combination of ordinary air conditioners + smart air conditioners? This depends. Smart air conditioners are generally more expensive than ordinary air conditioners, and the original price of Huawei air conditioner companions is 99 yuan, the price is not expensive, and it also supports the statistical power consumption function. Now there are also some smart air conditioners that support the power statistics function, but unfortunately I do not support this one. First of all, let's talk about smart air conditioning, smart air conditioning can be bound to the corresponding brand APP through mobile phones and WiFi, so as to realize mobile phone control air conditioning. Huawei's Smart Life APP now also supports binding many third-party brand accounts, so there is no need to keep too many third-party apps on mobile phones. Most of the other brand mobile phones also support binding third-party accounts. Taking the Huawei mobile phone I use and the midea smart air conditioner as an example, the mobile phone downloads the Midea Mercure APP to bind the Midea air conditioner, and then uses the Huawei smart life APP to bind the Midea account, and the air conditioner will appear in the Huawei smart life APP, so that you can control the midea air conditioner through the Huawei smart life APP, and then you can uninstall the Midea Mercure APP. Non-smart air conditioners must use an air conditioning companion if they want to control air conditioning through mobile phone apps. The principle of the air conditioner companion is very simple, that is, to control the air conditioner companion to emit infrared through the mobile phone and WiFi. The air conditioner companion is equivalent to a smart socket that can emit infrared, so avoid obscuration when using the air conditioner companion. When choosing an air conditioning companion, pay attention to whether the air conditioning plug is 16A or 10A, and if you buy the wrong one, you will not be able to plug it in. Huawei's smart choice of this air conditioner companion also has 16A and 10A specifications to choose from, and now the new air conditioner is generally 16A. In the Huawei Smart Life APP, the interfaces of the smart air conditioner and air conditioner companion are shown in the following figures. You can see that the air conditioner companion has more functions, and the most important thing is that it can count the power. That's why I've given smart air conditioners an air conditioning companion. Use the air conditioner companion to simply measure the bedroom air conditioning power consumption, from 10 pm to turn on the air conditioning refrigeration to the next morning 6 am, the initial power of the air conditioner is as high as 1000W or more, and after the indoor temperature is stable, the air conditioning power is stable at about 100W. The electricity consumption is about 1.5 kWh in 8 hours a night, and about three kWh in total throughout the day. Since the power consumption is related to factors such as the air conditioner itself and the ambient temperature, this data is for reference only. Air conditioners consume power not only when in use, but also when in standby. Usually most air conditioners have standby power ranging from a few tenths of a watt to a dozen watts, and the real-time power of the air conditioner can be monitored with the air conditioner companion, but the data will be delayed. When the air conditioner is in standby, the plug is inserted into the air conditioner companion, and the standby power is stable as shown in the figure. In order to exclude the impact of the air conditioner partner's own power consumption on the above standby power consumption data, after I unplug the air conditioner plug, the mobile phone APP terminal shows that the air conditioner partner's power consumption is 0W. It can be seen that the power consumption of the air conditioner companion is negligible. The standby power consumption of different air conditioners is different, and the standby power pair of the second bedroom new air conditioner and the master bedroom old air conditioner measured by the two air conditioning partners is as shown in the figure, the standby power of the new air conditioner is stable when it is about 1W, and the old air conditioner is about 2W. According to this estimate, the new air conditioner has a standby power consumption of 1×24×365÷1000 ≈ 8.76 degrees a year, if each kilowatt hour of electricity is calculated according to 5.6 cents, it is about 4.9 yuan a year, and the electricity cost of less than a few dollars a year is negligible, so there is usually no need to repeatedly pull out the air conditioning plug and power off. If you are away from home for a long time, a power outage is recommended. In order to rule out the problem that may be an air conditioning companion, the two air conditioners are tested again after exchanging air conditioning companions with each other, and the results are the same. The functions of air conditioner companion and smart air conditioner are roughly the same, after binding huawei smart life APP, not only can you remotely control the switch, mode, wind speed and direction, timing and other functions of air conditioner through the mobile phone APP, but also support the voice assistant control of various other devices, such as Huawei watches, Huawei smart speakers, Huawei tablets, etc. It's just that the air conditioner companion has more functions of measuring and counting the amount of electricity than most of the current smart air conditioners. In summary, Huawei's smart choice of this air conditioner companion can not only make ordinary air conditioners smart, but also support the function of counting air conditioning power consumption. If you use a non-intelligent air conditioner at home, you can have an air conditioning companion to make the air conditioner smart. If you are using a smart air conditioner that does not support power measurement, if you want to count the electricity consumption of the air conditioner, you can also have an air conditioning companion. When buying an air conditioner, pre-sales consultation is very important, and it is also possible to buy a fully functional smart air conditioner directly.