Homeconnect: unavailable entities. Integration no longer maintained?

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Hello, I installed homeconnect integration to monitor the alarm of my Siemens oven and TTS the signal in all the house like I was doing it previously with Jeedom.

The problem: after sucessfull installation some entities are unavailable:

  • Duration
  • Program Progress
  • Remaining Program Time

Did anyone managed to get it working?
Is this integration still maintained? I see that someone created a 3rd party extension “home connect alt” saying that this extension is no longer maintained. Is this true?

If this integration is not working, isnt’t it time to cleanup??

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This is “normal” when it’s not running for my dishwasher, so I’m guessing an oven is the same. Having said that, I don’t think Home Connect is fabulously reliable, and I suspect it’s them, not the integration. They have an online API which seems to regularly fail. However, it has been pretty good for me over the last month.

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You mean, the entities of your dishwasher get “normal” state ?
But mine are always unavailable and never change. I tried with different states of the oven.

On this specific point, I’m sure the API delivers the right info. Before using homeassistant, I was using an other similar product, “jeedom” with a plugin similar to homeconnect integration. That plugin was able to relay the alarm info with precision.

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I just meant normal behaviour. I used the quotes because it’s probably not what you would want as normal. Because I didn’t really need them and the entities regularly go unavailable I have disabled them in HA. When my dishwasher is running a program those entities have values (except mine are disabled).

Dishwashers always have a program, so if running, will have a program progress. However, ovens can be operated without a program, so in these cases progress and remaining time would probably stay unavailable. You would have to use a program on the oven to see if these update.

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Thanks for the precision.

Too bad. Home assistant “home connect” plugin is not reliable while “home assistant plugin” in Jeedom is very reliable. That’s a bit overkill but I’ll keep using jeedom only to catch this alarm signal and transmit it to home assistant via MQTT.
I hope in the future home assistant devs will debug their integration.
Jeedom did the demonstration that the home connect API is reliable.
(jeedom is a domotic system similar to home assistant)