Hack of a normal air conditioner to make it wifi controlled

The standard air conditioner not connected you already have can be hacked to be used with a smartphone

I’ve got a standard Daikin air conditioner in my home, it’s not a connected device. It’s controlled only by an infra-red remote controller. I’ve made it wifi controlled emulating the infra-red remote controller commands with an ESP8266 microcontroller. This new controller can be placed in a place that “see” the air conditioner and using a small app can talk with an Ios/Android smartphone.

More details for this project here:
https://hackaday.io/project/165554-normal-air-conditioner-becomes-wifi-controlled