preface

Air conditioners, as the most common household appliances for our daily life, are familiar to everyone. With the arrival of the smart home era, traditional household appliances have also been added with smart tags. Today's smart TVs, smart rice cookers, and smart air conditioners have also been moved to the booth, but often the price will rise. How to use the most elegant way and the most economical solution to make the existing traditional air conditioners at home intelligent control? This is iCool. The author will take you to open the intelligent era!

Unpacking

The white and simple packaging box does not have too many flashy "routines". The packaging material is strong, and the product drawing can be seen at a glance on the front, which is clear and intuitive.

When you open the package, you will be really excited about the big screen, just like a pair of big black eyes.

It has to be said that the internal product packaging is also careful. The big "knob" is limited by the foam soft material to avoid unnecessary damage during transportation.

Take out the large "knob" and you can see the lower lamp holder, plus a data line. The iCool as a whole consists of two parts, one is the bottom lamp holder, and the other is the large "knob" for operation. The two are connected through metal contacts. When placing, attention should be paid to the direction. If the direction is wrong, the rotation cannot be stably placed on the base.

As a key part of the main body, the large "knob" is integrated with multiple sensors, such as infrared transmitter, temperature and humidity sensor, light sensor, gesture sensor, human body infrared sensor, WiFi module. Of course, these all need space, which also greatly reduces the space of the battery. In the actual use process, the problem of short standby time appears, and we hope to improve them.

The base part is actually designed ingeniously. A circle of transparent materials is designed for the LED light strip. At night, you can turn on the light with a wave of your hand. The warm light can accompany you to sleep quickly and also provide light assistance when you get up at night.

There is also a button at the back of the base that can manually turn off the light. There is a USB output port (for charging the mobile phone) and a power input port at the bottom.

experience

The control principle of the product is simple, which can be understood as a universal infrared remote control. The remote control of traditional air conditioners can be realized through the infrared code base. The data can be analyzed through the sensor carried by itself, and when it is not suitable, the corresponding command can be automatically issued to the air conditioner to control.

The experience starts with the installation of APP and the download of iCool. When using iCool for the first time, there will be a graphical operation prompt, and you can register to enter the interface as required.

The key step is to add a device (iCool), which requires networking settings. Turn on the mobile phone's WIFI, connect to the home network (2.4G), and turn on the device to keep it awake; Dial the host to the wifi icon to flash the search status, enter the account password, and configure with one key. If the WIFI is always on, the connection is successful.

At this time, you will see the iCool device on the main interface. The icon is divided into two rows. The lower row of six buttons from left to right are pairing air conditioner, leaving home, going home, sleeping, and dehumidifying. The upper row displays the status and temperature of the air conditioner. Click it to go in and have details.

Click the first pairing icon button in the lower row and select the air conditioner brand and model to complete pairing. In actual use, pairing is very convenient. After selecting a brand, if there is no corresponding model, the infrared code library will be automatically refreshed. When your air conditioner has corresponding power on and other controls, pairing is successful.

The reason why it can be called intelligent housekeeper of air conditioner is that its powerful functions are: intelligent sleeping, intelligent leaving home, intelligent returning home, and intelligent dehumidification.

Intelligent and comfortable sleep: according to the temperature demand, the air conditioning temperature is automatically adjusted according to the temperature curve to create a comfortable sleeping environment.

It is a great experience to automatically adjust the temperature of the air conditioner during sleep, and iCool has also set temperature adjustment curves for different groups of people. You can manually adjust them according to your own needs. The only drawback may be that the air conditioner will make a drip sound after being adjusted, which is a bit annoying at night.

Intelligent leaving home: When you go out at the scheduled time, iCool will automatically turn off the air conditioner. If you exceed the scheduled time, iCool still senses someone at home through the human body sensor, it will automatically delay turning off the air conditioner.

Smart Home: When iCool senses your home, it will automatically choose to turn on or not turn on the air conditioner according to the current temperature. It can also automatically change temperature when it is opened.

Intelligent dehumidification: set the humidity data. When the humidity exceeds, iCool will automatically turn on the air conditioner and dehumidify.

feel

After so many days of use, I felt deeply. The designer wanted to use a device to integrate the state perception of leaving home and going home, temperature and humidity perception, and cooperate with the infrared transmitter to control the traditional air conditioner. After the device is connected to the Internet, it can be remotely controlled through the APP. Because it rained these days, the air humidity in the home was high, and iCool was very intelligent as it was set, Automatically turned on the air conditioner and dehumidification mode for me, making life so simple and intelligent. When you go out, take out your mobile phone to control the air conditioner in your home, turn on the cooling mode, and you will be able to cool off once you get home. Is that great!

At the same time, in use, we also found that the product needs to be improved and improved: 1. The standby time is short. First, the battery capacity is small. Second, the power consumption of many sensors is integrated. We hope that designers can start from the battery capacity on the one hand, and start from the power consumption on the other hand, increase the income and reduce the expenditure. Another solution is what many companies are doing at present, separating sensors from the control center, In this way, it may be possible to make more accurate judgments, such as opening the door, the human induction in the bedroom, the temperature and humidity in the balcony. Each scene is different. 2. The iCool screen is not covered with hard glass, and fuzzy liquid crystal flow will appear when you press it with your hand. I think the iCool that often needs to be selected and pressed will affect the user experience. 3. The design of the light band causes small area of the bottom base, unstable equipment, easy tilting, single color and unadjustable. The light can be turned on by waving, but the rear key needs to be pressed to turn off the light. This is really troublesome. I hope to add waving to turn on and off the light. 4. ICool can only control one air conditioner, and there is often more than one equipment in the home. If you need to spend 198 yuan to equip each air conditioner, the cost is high. 5. It is hoped that the interactive operation of APP control interface and setting scene can be designed more easily. 5. At present, only air conditioners can be paired. I don't know whether more infrared and even RF devices will be supported in the future to manage the whole family intelligently!

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