That might depends on how your AC is working, I recently did the same at my dad’s house and run into issues because the temp control for the unit is reading from the remote. So when I sent infrared command to turn off unit, it worked as expected for some minutes then turned back on because remote sent back command as temp wasn’t meet. Still need to do a lot of testing to find a way to make it work, might need to disable remote and use some temp sensors for the triggering part but not sure how that will work, might need to use some hysterisis friendly climate addon for that…

You can try captvty on desktop, it enables downloading available replay and many have English, French audio with subtitles in each languages.

Only thing is I don’t know it if requires to be in France to access it but vpn would solve that.

If you go on any French download website mentioned in fhym, look for files with “multi” so you will get subtitles in English.