Missing / incorrect program mapping for TCR790WP dryer

[apeeters]

The problem

I noticed that many of the programs of the TCR790WP dryer are missing (number shown), or mapped incorrectly. Some examples:

Program reported	Actual program
2	Cottons
9	Cottons ECO
1	Automatic extra
Automatic extra	Smoothing

I can provide a PR, but not sure how to handle those differing program mappings.

Version of miele integration having the issue?

0.0.23

Version of Home Assistant Core having the issue?

2022.8.6

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

No response

Additional information

No response

[mundschenk-at]

If you can provide a list program IDs/names (a complete one would be best - you can systematically select programs and log the names & IDs via an automation, no need to actually start them), I can handle the PR.

Unfortunately Miele provides no list at all and various reverse engineered online sources are somewhat contradictory. We verified what we could with the available devices.

[apeeters]

Sure, here you go:

Program reported	Actual program EN (UK)
2	Cottons
9	Cottons ECO
3	Minimum iron
5	Delicates
gentle_minimum_iron (= 31)	Bed linen
1	Automatic
4	Wollens handcare
17	Silks handcare
8	Express
14	Shirts
13	Denim
24	Steam care
15	Sportswear
22	Basket programme
16	Outerwear
12	Proofing
6	Timed drying Warm air
19	Standard pillows
7	Timed drying Cool air
cottons (=20)	Large pillows
11	Cottons hygiene
9	Cottons ECO
automatic_plus (=10)	Pre-ironing

[mundschenk-at]

@apeeters Thank you!

@astrandb We seem to have the first overlapping program IDs within a device class. (10, 20, 31). How should we handle that? Maybe solicit some more input in the forums first, to make sure there is actually overlap and some incorrect lists going around?

[astrandb]

@mundschenk-at I think we must make sure that there is a true overlap before we redesign the mapping structure. I would be happy if you could ask around.

[mamoel666]

My TEJ675WP (dryer) reports this:

1   Automatic plus
2   Cottons
3   Minimum iron
4   Woollens handcare
5   Delicates
6   Warm air
7   Cool air
8   Express
9   Cottons
10  Pre-ironing
12  Proofing
13  Denim
14  Shirts
15  Sportswear
16  Outerwear
17  Silks handcare
19  Standard pillows
22  Basket programme
31  Bed linen

2 and 9 are Cottons, but 9 with a ' ' (single space) at the end.

[mundschenk-at]

Does your device have "Cottons ECO" (according to the manual/UI), @mamoel666? This might be a bug on Miele's side. I'll try get additional listings from other (older) dryers - they might have changed the numbering for their heat-pump models.

[apeeters]

FYI: try different language settings on your machine, i.e. US vs UK make a huge difference.

[mamoel666]

I took the names directly from the Miele Swagger-UI.

The manual says:

[astrandb]

@mundschenk-at If it turns out that there is troublesome overlap of raw_value we could change approach for translation. We could use the returned clear text in default language (en) as index instead of the numeric value. This would be a breaking change for users that use the sensor values in templates or automations, The alternative to maintain separate tables for each device type and version can be an Sisyphean effort over time.

[mundschenk-at]

We could use the returned clear text in default language (en) as index instead of the numeric value. This would be a breaking change for users that use the sensor values in templates or automations, The alternative to maintain separate tables for each device type and version can be an Sisyphean effort over time.

I'm still hoping that any overlap will be "localized" to an easily identifiable subtype (i.e. dryers with WP as the last characters of their model number). I'll ask around in the HA forums.

@mamoel666 So Cottons with the space is definitely the ECO variant. Apparently they only identified it by the tag/arrow on this device because it has a physical wheel for program selection (in the German EU energy consumption report it is identified as "Baumwolle mit Pfeil", i.e. "Cottons with arrow").

[apeeters]

Sure, here you go:

For the record: these are the program names I see on the display of the machine, Iin HA, I only noted down the program id.

[aturri]

Hi, any update about this topic? I have a TCJ690WP tumble dryer and program names are completely wrong. At the moment I've forked the repository and I'm using my own mappings for the dryer programs.

[astrandb]

I have an ongoing discussion with developers at Miele regarding the documentation of program names etc. Will report back here if we can get proper documantation directly from Miele or if we have to do some more reverse engineering.