Home Connect: alpha testers wanted

Third party integrations
189

Hello
I still have the same problem like 1 year ago (when your integration is in development mode):

  • after some time (sometimes hours, sometimes 2 days) HA loses the connection to the two machines (washing machine, dishwasher).
  • I have found out, that a restard helps. So to prevent loosing connection, I restart HA every night. Sometimes it works for the full day. Sometimes at afternoon it stops. However for the next day after a restart the connection is back.
  • Even in the middle of a washing programm it just freezes.

I upgraded the hardware of HA from a Pi3 to a Pi4. But nothing changed. The Pi4 is faster, its load is below 1. I think its not a hardware problem.

But then I have found an interesting solution than restart in the middle of day: In HA->Configuration->Integration->Home Connect I press “reload”. Then the connection to the machines are back.
Sadly there is no automation at the moment for reloading. But maybe it helps the develops to find the problem?

Gilbert

190

Hello everyone,
I am new to HA but have owned two BSH devices for 2 years now.
I would like to integrate them once I have HA setup. But from my understanding, this implementation requires a working cloud connection, is that correct? Or os that just needed for the initial installation and can then be cut?

The Home Connect app allows me to disable the server, so the app will only work locally without an internet connection. Could this not also be used by HA?

(I would like to keep as many devices in a local-only VLAN as possible).

Thank you for you help.
Alex

191

Not possible since this talks to the bosch cloud via the developer network.