I have succesfully set up the Siemens Home Connect integration by just following all steps of the online manual and to be honest that was really straight forward:
So at this moment I have integrated my Siemens washer and dryer to Home Assistant and it shows 2 devices and 47 entities.
But the problem I have is the status of these entities. Basically the only reliable status is ‘Wasmachine Door’ All the other entities do not ‘update’ as I would expect. ‘Wasmachine Duration’ is always ‘unavailable’, ‘Wasmachine Power’ is never updated (only after restarting HA) and ‘Wasmachine Program Progress’ just stops updating the precentage randomly. I am not sure this is causing the issue but I am using my Nabu Casa subscription. I have also installed the Home Connect App on my iPhone to see what that does but that works fine.
Further more, I am on 0.112.2 and using HA via Docker version 18.09.8 on a synology NAS.
Similar issue here with Bosch WAU28669HW wash machine. I need the wash machine program progress to trigger airer auto down and turn on balcony light. But it seems program progress stays at 100% and does not update any more after first wash finished. I need to remove the integration and readd it again to make it work.
I am afraid not. The only answer I got was to report an issue on github. I didn’t do that and just removed the integration because I strongly believe that when the issue is this obvious and ‘big’ the developer should know about it. So I have no confidence this will be fixed soon.
For some reason, it started working in my config. Maybe it just needs some time. Also, I get the feeling you might need to activate the ‘remote control’ button on your washing machine.
Well, I don’t own a dish washer but a washing machine and I guess the usage of this device is similar to a dish washer. The binary switches only indicate the setup program on the device, they are read-only and cannot be used to control the device. Therefore, HA cannot be used to start and/or stop the device, you should use the Home Connect app for that. And yes, you’ll have to manually power up the device and physically enable the ‘remote control’ setting using the buttons on the device.
Same issue for my Siemens WT47XK90/03. Some entities are not updated correctly (p.e. operation-state, program-process, door, duration, …). They often have the status “not available”. So its unpossible to use this entitys to trigger an automation.
Do anybody knows, if there is already an issue open at github?
I have a solution that is working for the moment. I am using a script to call the relatively-new ‘reload config entry’ service, like this. It seems to be doing the job.
alias: System - reload Home Connect
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: time
at: '05:00:00'
- platform: time
at: '17:00:00'
condition: []
action:
- service: homeassistant.reload_config_entry
data: {}
target:
device_id:
- deviceid1 <- find this in the URL when looking at your Home Connect device page in HA
- deviceid2
mode: single
I have a Dishwasher, dryer and washmachine from Siemens. All connected to Home Connect and Home Assistant. You have to push the button “Connect to app” (something similar) and then you can close the door. Then you can manually start from Home Assistant by selecting the program you want to run or schedule it with an automation during the night. I will do the last option because of dynamic pricing and will select the cheapest hour to use the machines.
Yes, for me it’s logical because maybe you don’t need to run it everyday. So you can make an automation that run every night, it will only run when you push the button after putting all the dishes in the dishwasher