Change default mode when turning on

[lits101]

I'd like to start by saying that this works great for me. All four of my units seem to be supported, and talking directly to the unit via esphome is much more reliable than one-way IR code blasting.

One annoying issue I've noticed is when I have Alexa turn the unit on, the default mode is 'heat'. We live in the sub-tropics, so having the unit come on to heat by default is not ideal, especially with a young baby in the room we're trying to cool.

At present I'm working around this with a simple automation in Home Assistant that checks the temperature of the room when the unit switches from 'off' to 'heat', then changes the mode to 'cool' if the room isn't cold.

I'd like to either build this into my esphome config, or change the default mode in the cn105 code somehow.

Has anyone else tried to tackle this same issue? How did you solve it?