What is an area

unawair’s unit of control is the area. Each area binds at least one thermometer and at least one AC together with a comfort range (a lower and upper bound). Every 10 minutes, unawair looks at the room temperature and drives cooling, heating, and the AC’s set temperature so the room stays inside that band.

Why “area” instead of “room”

Physical rooms and ACs don’t always map 1:1.

• A studio apartment with two small ACs (one near the bed, one over the desk)
• An open LDK whose only thermometer sits on one side
• A large LDK where you want different control near the kitchen vs near the window

Because rooms and “control groups” aren’t always 1:1, unawair lets you define the control unit yourself. In most cases, naming areas after physical rooms (“Living room”, “Bedroom”, “Office”) is the clearest mapping.

Caution

Don’t assign the same AC to multiple areas with automation ON. Each area decides independently every 10 minutes and would end up sending conflicting commands to the same AC. If you want to swap which area drives an AC seasonally, only keep automation ON in one of them at a time.

The four pieces of an area

Piece	Role
Thermometers (1+)	Source of the room temperature. If multiple are assigned, their latest readings are averaged.
ACs (1+)	What gets controlled. If multiple are assigned, every one receives the same command.
Comfort range	E.g. 23.0°C – 26.0°C. unawair drives cooling, heating, and the AC’s set temperature so the room stays inside this band; once it’s stably inside, it switches to the idle behaviour (low or off).
Automation ON/OFF	When OFF, no commands are sent — temperatures are only recorded.

Averaging multiple thermometers

If you bind two or more thermometers to an area, their latest readings are simply averaged to get “the room temperature” for that area. In a room with hot and cold spots (near a window vs near an inside wall), including both prevents the control loop from acting on a biased side alone.

Areas vs. plan limits

You can create as many areas as you want, up to 20 total. The plan limit only applies to how many areas have automation turned ON — Solo / Pro / Max each cap that number differently.

That makes patterns like these possible:

• Keep automation ON in the main rooms only; leave the rest as record-only areas for temperature history.
• Swap which area is running automation by season (bedroom in summer, living room in winter).
• Pre-stage backup areas without changing plans.

Next steps

• Create an area — bind your thermometers and AC into one area.
• Comfort range — how to pick the bounds and fine-tune them.