New integration Missing many sensors

[bschatzow]

The problem

Many useful sensors that are in the HACS integration are missing from the core one.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2024.11.b1

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

LG thinq

Link to integration documentation on our website

None available

Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

No response

Additional information

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[joostlek]

Please keep in mind that this integration is brand new and not related to the HACS one. Please elaborate more. Be aware that theoretically this is a feature request, so if its unable to be implemented this issue will be closed.

[bschatzow]

The integration that I have been using from HACS from https://github.com/ollo69/ha-smartthinq-sensors gives me 28 sensors where the new one that is now in core gives me 9.

Not sure how the HACS version has this many more, but many of them are useful.

[joostlek]

That's not the full list of entities, you have more like events

[bschatzow]

Your are correct. I only listed the created sensors. The new integration also has two events.

[joostlek]

Can you also check the state of these entities in the dev tools? It will show you all the event types possible

[bschatzow]

Don't see tub clean here

[joostlek]

Can you also post the notifications one for completeness? In that case it looks like your device does not post the tub clean notification. But that is probably an issue on LGs side

[bschatzow]

[bschatzow]

What is strange as this information is in their app and somehow it is gotten with the hacs version. Thanks for all your help. It is nice that a major manufacturer is supporting HA. I only hope they will continue and make it better. Unlike the genie integration that worked for one month after they took over.

[bschatzow]

App info

[luca-angemi]

I posted this on another issue, but same concept.

Also I know it's probably not the right place to talk about this but since the integration it's new, I'll try! I have a washing machine and so far I used a custom integration which also provides a select for the course selection. https://github.com/ollo69/ha-smartthinq-sensors/blob/abc27f2999604449e1173578ed11a6f55b60a8f5/custom_components/smartthinq_sensors/select.py#L44 Is it difficult to add that to the core integration?

[dougiteixeira]

I have an air conditioner that, with the custom integration, exposes switches to control the display light and jet mode.

Same for power and filter life sensors.

I tried to include this in the official integration but I couldn't. LG's documentation doesn't list these controls in the air conditioning device profile, so it probably won't be possible to include them. 😢

The device status response from the API used by the official integration:

    "response": {
        "airConJobMode": {
            "currentJobMode": "COOL"
        },
        "powerSave": {
            "powerSaveEnabled": false
        },
        "temperature": {
            "currentTemperature": 26.5,
            "targetTemperature": 18,
            "unit": "C"
        },
        "airFlow": {
            "windStrength": "HIGH"
        },
        "operation": {
            "airConOperationMode": "POWER_ON"
        },
        "timer": {
            "relativeStartTimer": "UNSET",
            "relativeStopTimer": "UNSET"
        },
        "sleepTimer": {
            "relativeStopTimer": "UNSET"
        }
    }

[MichaelStruck]

Joining the conversation to track this as I also use the tub wash count via the HACS integration and saw ThinQ will be supported in HA 2024.11. The HACS integration is a high bar, but hoping native integration can match at least the feature I rely on.

[aejohnson311]

Total newb here but just installed the integration and was hoping to see the energy usage available to me in the ThinQ mobile app. Is that at all possible in future versions?

[ExquisiteMetropolis]

Adding to this topic:

Thanks for taking the time/effort to add LG to Home Assistant, however it's far from functional & complete. I've been using a HACS version for the same already for a year now. For now I will stick to that. Ref: https://github.com/ollo69/ha-smartthinq-sensors

Why not team up with the author of the HACS version? As you can see from the screenshots below, I can't even turn on my airco unit with the LG version. Where as the HACS version presents me with several options. Also the HACS version has more entities than the LG variant.

For now, I will stick with the HACS version.

LG:

HACS:

LG:

HACS:

[qemical]

HACS version from @ollo69 is absolutely better. I have an Air to Water Heat Pump and the official integration shows me a simple switch for the water heater

There is no desirable temperature nor current water temperature. Comparing with the custom one shows this:

Custom integration I believe it uses the app auth. However, API I guess is not providing that information yet.

[ianfretwell]

Switched over to the 'official' integration, like many posts above, for my dryer...only to find that it too is missing many sensors that appeared with the HACS integration. The new integration is showing just 6 entities whereas I'd have been expecting something like 20!

This includes many that the documentation seems to suggest SHOULD exist such as 'Remaining Time' - but it's nowhere to be found as yet. Tried reloading the integration whilst the dryer is on (& running too) but this makes no difference whatsoever.

[joostlek]

FYI, there used to be timers, but we removed them during the beta as they did not meet our expectations of user experience. We chose to remove them to add them back in a better way, than to have a massive breaking change in the future.

[ianfretwell]

OK - makes sense - thanks. Maybe the main documentation page should mention that somewhere - as currently it's perhaps a little misleading about what will be provided.

[joostlek]

Oh good point, I forgot to update the docs

[16-9]

In my case, I have "No devices or entities" listed under my integration. Since the HACS module works for me, it confirms that my appliances are properly registered with ThinQ. Will be very happy to help debug.