Use cases
unawair only needs a thermometer, an AC, and a comfort range — that simplicity lets it fit a lot of different homes. This page lists the common setups as starting points.
Common patterns
Section titled “Common patterns”A bedroom, an office, or a studio apartment — anywhere you want to automate a single room. One SwitchBot Hub 2 or Nature Remo mini 2 handles both temperature sensing and the IR remote. Solo plan (¥500/month) is enough.
Modern central-air setups like Mitsui Home’s Smart Breeze One, where a single ordinary residential AC serves the whole house through ducted vents. Instead of trusting the AC’s own (airflow-biased) sensor, unawair averages multiple thermometers distributed across the living spaces to drive control. This was the original use case that motivated building unawair. Solo plan is enough — it’s still one area.
Living + bedroom + office + a kid’s room — when each room has its own AC and you want them driven independently with separate comfort ranges. Each room gets its own hub and its own area. Pro plan (¥980/month, 5 areas) typically covers it.
A parent or grandparent living alone, whom you want to keep safe before they notice heat or cold and before they decide to push through it. The family handles setup and billing; the relative doesn’t have to touch the app. The key is a wide comfort band kept on gentle heating/cooling — comfortable for people who dislike strong AC.
Keeping a room safely inside a temperature range while a pet is home alone. A tighter comfort range plus, when possible, a redundant setup (the same AC registered under both SwitchBot and Nature Remo).
Advanced patterns
Section titled “Advanced patterns”Configurations that aren’t full use cases but unawair supports:
- Always-on redundancy: register the same AC under both SwitchBot and Nature Remo. If one vendor service goes down, the other takes over. Set the area’s control mode to “Rotate.”
Achievable through configuration options on Create an area.
One operational note: unawair is designed around keeping one comfort range year-round. Mild weather barely triggers the AC; hot summer days and cold winter days do, quietly. There’s no need to swap settings by season.