Curious if anyone has tried to integrate the features of the MyHarvia app. It is a hardware and app combination enabling remote monitoring and control of sauna heaters and related equipment.
I’d like to configure a hardware button to remotely (over the internet) start the sauna.
Product information pages:
iOS app: MyHarvia on the App Store
Android app: Sorry, new forum users can only post two links in one post…
Same desire here. Googling the net, I found this (have not tried it):
"In the sauna there’s Black Harvia Cilindro PC70 sauna heater with Harvia Xenio WiFi control panel. Panel is controllable with My Harvia app, but unfortunately it doesn’t have open interface and cannot be integrated on the Home Assistant at the moment.
To fix the Sauna heater issue, I decided to add Harvia Shelly remote start/stop system along with the existing WiFi control panel. It’s a normal Shelly 1S device with a custom firmware in it. Not packed up with the features I can see in the WiFi panel but does the thing! Now I can see Sauna status and start heating from the Home Assistant as well. There are some safety features built in the heater, but I’ll get back on those when writing full review of the heater."
I’ve asked directly from Harvia about six months ago if the WiFi panel can be integrated to 3rd party systems and the short answer was no.
I’ve also tried to decode the Android APK package to see if anything could be used, but no luck, since the Harvia cloud uses AWS Cognito for authentication.
That’s sad. Harvia seems to make good products but the lack of openness on the MyHarvia is pushing me to other brands/solutions.
I don’t want to be in a situation 5-10 years from now that I cannot control my sauna remotely any longer because it was decided to stop the cloud service (or to make it paid).
At the moment, you can only set the target temperature, use the light switches, and enable/disable the heater. But I work on it on a daily basis, before and after work, so I expect many improvements soon. I suggest that you follow the updates.
Thank you very much @RubenHarms, I will let you know if there are any problems. So far everything is working very well. The only functionality I’m missing is fan support, but you already have that on the road map.
Thank you. I don’t have a fan. It doesn’t seem like a difficult feature to implement, I think. Can you give me some information about the fan? Is it just an on/off switch or is there a speed adjustment?
I released an update. Can you update the component and test the feature?. Does the fan switch works? And does it updates when you change it in the MyHarvia App?
@RubenHarms I tested version 0.0.13 and it works great. Light switch, oven switch, fan switch and door sensor work very well. The statuses of all entities are synchronous in Harvia App and Home Assistant. Thank you for your work!