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I recently installed a couple of air conditioning units into my top floor. Overall I am pretty happy with the improvement - my top floor was an oven, now it is very pleasant.

However the remote for the air conditioner is a classic example of having too many features and trying to solve problems that the engineering team that makes it doesn’t understand well enough:

The remote has a heap of features I don’t understand and have zero motivation to learn. What it doesn’t have is a simple way to convert from Farenheit to Celcius. I had to look a three third party video sites to find a way to do it and it process managed to mis-configure my unit. I still don’t remember how to do it - at some point I will have to look it up again.

If I were in Trane management I would:

  • Just have an off and on button

  • Change mode from heating to cooling

  • Change temperature

  • Have a button to change the units between Celcius and Farenheit

  • Make an App and publish an API which works well so that third party manufacturers can integrate their system into an overall system

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