We should use BLE to control Air Con or control a smart plug? Which is best for home automation?

[Terry Kong]

We should use BLE to control Air Con or control a smart plug? Which is best for home automation?

[David Edwin]

Hi,

You can use the Automation IO Service and Profile to control the Air conditioner and Smart plug. Automation IO allows you to send or receive the state of a digital IO or analog IO.

This can be used for On, Off, get the state of a knob etc, so this can be used to turn on/turn off a smart plug or increase/decrease the air conditioning. Automation IO is now a prototyping specification (as of date) and is available to all Bluetooth SIG members.

[Nikolaus Wittenstein]

I see that SDK 10.0 is out now, but I skimmed the documentation and didn't find anything about Automation IO. Did it not make the cut this time?