This project is an alternative integration for Home Connect enabled home appliances manufactured by BSH under the Bosch, Siemens, Constructa and Neff brands.
Home Assistant already has a built-in integration for Home Connect, however it is quite basic, generates entities that are not always supported by the connected appliances and tends to stop getting status updates after a while. This integration attempts to address those issues and has the following features:
- All the entities are dynamically read from the API and reflect true capabilities of the appliance.
- The integration exposes entities that provide complete control over programs, program options, and global settings. These entities are dynamically read from API and therefor are specifically applicable to the connected appliances.
- Configurable options and settings are exposed for easy selection using "Select", "Switch" or "Number" entities, as appropriate.
- Read only status values, as well as some selectable options are also made available either using "Sensor" or "Binary Sensor" entities for easier use when only wanting to display them.
- Status events that are published by the Home Connect service are exposed as Home Assistant events.
- "Program Started" and "Program Finished" events are exposed as triggers for easier building of automation scripts.
- A "Start Program" Button entity is provided to start operation of the selected program.
- Program and option selections are also available as a service for easier integration in scripts.
- The state of all entities is updated at real time with a cloud push type integration.
- Clean handling of appliances disconnecting and reconnecting from the cloud.
- Clean handling of new appliances being added or removed from the service.
- All the names support translation but currently only English translation is provided.
- Using pure async implementation for reduced load on the platform.
For more information visit http://github.com/ekutner/home-connect-hass