Dear openHAB community,
the Miele & Cie. KG decided to develop and contribute, in cooperation with the itemis AG, a new binding for our cloud-based Miele@home devices to the openHAB community. This binding will communicate with the Miele@home devices directly via the Miele 3rd Party API without the need for the Miele XGW3000 gateway.
In agreement with @Kai the new binding is not intended to replace the existing gateway-based Miele binding, but to provide an additional purely cloud-based Miele binding to the openHAB community. Miele believes that this provides a benefit for users that want to integrate their WiFi-enabled Miele@home devices into openHAB without the need to buy the additional Miele XGW3000 gateway (cf. this request in the forum), while not restricting other users that want the integration via the gateway. The two Miele bindings will thus be strictly separate, and our development activities will focus exclusively on the new cloud-based binding without official support for the existing gateway-based Miele binding.
We are aware of the forum discussion concerning the development of a binding for the cloud-based Miele@home integration into openHAB. As far as we know, no active development of a cloud-based Miele@home binding has started yet, so that there is no work that might become obsolete after the contribution of the new binding. We are glad to read about the interest in our products as well as the interest in their integration into openHAB. We appreciate your feedback on our plan of providing a new cloud-based Miele openHAB-binding.
The binding development is expected to start at the beginning of March, if there is no objection from the openHAB community in the meantime. A major part of the binding functionality already exists and will be migrated to openHAB. For a list of Miele@home devices and features that we plan to support see below.
We will keep this post updated during the binding development.
Please let us know if you have questions or suggestions regarding our plans for the cloud-based Miele@home binding.
Sincerely,
Bert Plonus (Miele),
Martin Lepsy (Miele),
Benjamin Bolte (itemis),
Björn Lange (itemis)
Planned Miele@home device support
- Washing Machines
- Tumble Dryers
- Washer Dryer
- Dishwashers
- Ovens
- Hobs
- Hoods
- Coffee Machines
- Fridges
- Freezers
- Fridge-Freezer Combinations
- Wine Cabinets
Planned feature set
The following list of planned features describes the superset of features for each Miele@home device category. There might be devices of a device category that do not support all the stated features, i.e. the available features depend on the individual Miele@home device capabilities.
- Automatic discovery of Miele@home devices that are associated with the used Miele user account
- Showing the device state such as off, on, running, etc. (all device categories)
- Showing the device’s power state, i.e. on/off (all device categories)
- Showing the currently selected program of the device (washing machines, tumble dryers, washer dryers, dishwashers, ovens, coffee machines)
- Showing the time delay before starting the currently selected program of the device (washing machines, tumble dryers, washer dryers, dishwashers, ovens)
- Showing the device-specific phase of the active program (washing machines, tumble dryers, washer dryers, dishwashers, ovens, hoods, coffee machines)
- Showing the remaining time of the active program (washing machines, tumble dryers, washer dryers, dishwashers, ovens, coffee machines)
- Showing the progress in percent of the active program (washing machines, tumble dryers, washer dryers, dishwashers, ovens)
- Showing if the active program has finished (washing machines, tumble dryers, washer dryers, dishwashers, ovens, coffee machines)
- Showing the selected spinning speed (washing machines, washer dryers)
- Showing the selected temperature (washing machines, tumble dryers, washer dryers, dishwashers)
- Showing the ventilation power (hoods)
- Showing the selected target temperatures (ovens, fridges, freezers, fridge-freezer combinations, wine cabinets)
- Showing the current temperatures (ovens, fridges, freezers, fridge-freezer combinations, wine cabinets)
- Showing the supercooling and superfreezing status (fridges, freezers, fridge-freezer combinations)
- Showing the status of the device light (all device categories)
- Showing a device error indication (all device categories)
- Turning the device on/off (washing machines, tumble dryers, washer dryers, dishwashers, ovens, hoods, coffee machines, wine cabinets)
- Starting/stopping of the selected program subject to device-specific conditions (washing machines, tumble dryers, washer dryers, dishwashers, ovens)
- Switching the supercooling and superfreezing modes on/off (fridges, freezers, fridge-freezer combinations)
- Switching the device light on/off (all device categories)