[REQ] HVAC status toggle

[brettmc]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

• Yes

Please describe the problem

I've found that I can turn on the remote climate (ie, turn on A/C when vehicle is locked and empty) in a couple of ways:

• pressing the provided "Air Conditioning" button
• running the "Start AC" action (passing VIN as data)

I can also see that the provided HVAC Status sensor shows that the A/C is on when I do this.

I find it confusing that the "Air Conditioning" button/sensor allows turning on remote A/C but doesn't show the status correctly.

Describe the solution you'd like

What I would like to see:

• the Air Conditioning sensor shows as being on when A/C is remotely turned on (since I can use this sensor's button to turn on remote A/C)
• the toggle behaviour of the HVAC Status sensor turns on/off the A/C (currently, I see Action binary_sensor.turn_on not found) if I set the tile's interaction to toggle
• successfully turning on/off the A/C triggering an update of the HVAC and A/C sensor values, so I know if it's worked or not

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Additional context

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[ad-ha]

Hi @brettmc

Thanks for the feedback and suggestions.

Let me have a look into that and see what I might be able to do. That's a part that I had in mind to revise, because the initial deployment only had the HVAC status and the start AC (blowing) options. I after added the climate commands and ) may have mixed somethings.

I've also found an issue with the Rear Window Heating button, which I want to convert to a switch as well (with status feedback) and was planning to revise both those things.

It may take me a while to have some time to look into it, but I will include it on my roadmap for sure 👍

Cheers