Great to hear this driver has sparked an interest and in learning more about driver development, I know I've learnt a lot myself.
I am also refactoring the code (slowly) to accommodate the combining of the Aus/NZ (MelView), Eurpoean (MelCloud) and US (Kumo) based systems. I don't expect this will cause any issues with merging your code, nor would I want to dampen your enthusiasm, I am more than happy to have others contribute, just wanted to make you aware. Happy to talk you through my plans if you want. Would also be happy to look through what you have done so far, even in a partially completed state.
Great job, I'll try and take a look at the code some time soon.... Love the idea of being able to work outside of a hub, would be interested in how you have set it up and how you have found that experience, as I am sure others on the Community would also be interested....
For the emulation, there is the tiniest bit of documentation, with the main functionality here. It only contains what I needed.
Basically just consists of a class representing a hub, with which you can register driver files. subsequently you can add devices to the hub.
The devices all have a base class which provides "hubitat" methods and attributes like log, createEvent, httpPost etc.
Yes and we are in Belgium using Airco MSZ-EF42VGKW
We are connected with MELCloud but I want to make connection with Alexa (Amazon) is impossible I only find skills for US-Australia & New Sealand
Any suggestion ?
Looking at the thread below, I would expect that HE devices that have the thermostat capability, which the MelCloud driver has, should be available with Alexa via the HE integration. I don't have any Alexa devices, so can't confirm this. Has anyone else tried this?
Out of interest, when you say you are connected with MELCloud, are you using the drivers I have developed?
BTW, I do still intend to get back to more development here, including HE package manager. Just need to finalise the Kumo drivers for the US, integrate all three drivers into one combined driver and then start to look at HPM, presets and other MELCloud features.
Tnx for quick response..............I am just new on this Site. and new with Mitsubishi Stuff.
On Amazon I do not find any skill for Alexa in Europ and the UK sais there skill is only used in UK.
I expect you will need to setup HE with Alexa, might need others to provide that detail, but will see what I can find... There is a built-in app I believe...
Drivers should be somewhere further up the thread, but here is a link...
I'm expect you may not know how to install these manually? If so, let me know, I should have some notes somewhere... I really need to get these into package manager, much easier for users to work with.
After you have the drivers installed I do have some (potentially outdated) installation notes. I will try to review these sometime soon... Documentation is not my forte...
Fair enough. I do plan to get to local control for the 3 platforms I plan to support, the European MelCloud, US Kumo Cloud and my MelView in Aus/NZ. At that point there would then be the advantage of local vs cloud based control.
I have started working on a consolidated driver to allow control of any MEL thermostat, taking in the MELCloud platform in Europe, MELView here in Aus/NZ and Kumo Cloud in the US. There won't be a big change in features for those in Europe initially, but it will make things easier (I hope) going forward to expand the features across all 3 platforms at once.
So I will probably be looking for a few people to test and make sure everything still works as it should. I will also need to work through whether I can easily transition an existing setup to the new drivers or whether I suggest a fresh install.
I'm not planning to force anyone to change to these drivers anytime soon, and would be happy to support the existing drivers for a period of time, particularly until I am happy the transition is a smooth process.
I do plan to release the new drivers in HPM, which will make installation and updates a lot easier.
Does anyone not have Auto mode as an option? Other platforms, well mine at least, call out whether auto mode is available, not just an auto fan, auto as a mode, in place of heating / cooling.
Actually, would probably be interested either way, if people have Auto mode available would also be good to know...
That's what I am grappling with, yes. Mine, on the Aus/NZ MELView platform, makes a distinction between supporting automatic fan speed and auto mode, but wasn't sure about how to interpret the European settings. That is why I was curious about what people saw in their app to try and confirm what I was seeing in the JSON. There are similar ModelSupports setting for cooling and heating, as well as Has....
