This Home Assistant custom component adds support for controlling Midea dehumidifiers on local network

Dec 18, 2021 1 min read

This is a custom component for Home assistant that adds support for Midea dehumidifier appliances via the local area network.

midea-dehumidifier-lan

Home Assistant custom component for controlling Midea dehumidiferes on local network

Installation instruction

HACS

Add this repository as custom integration repository to HACS.

Manual

Update Home Assistant to version 2021.12 or newer
Clone this repository
Copy the custom_components/midea_dehumidifier_local folder into your Home Assistant’s custom_components folder

Configuring

Add Midea Dehumidifer (LAN) integration via UI
Enter Midea cloud username and password. Those are the same used in Midea mobile application.
The integration will discover dehumidifiers on local LAN network(s).
If a dehumidifer is not automatically discovered, but is registered to the cloud account, user is prompted to enter IPv4 address of the dehumidifier.

Known issues

If IPv4 address of dehumidifer changes, new IPv4 address will not be used until Home Assistant’s restart

Supported entities

This custom component creates following entites for each discovered dehumidifer:

humidifier/dehumidifer
fan
sensor with current humidity
binary sensor for full tank
switch for controlling ION mode (switch has no effect if dehumidifier doesn’t support it)

See also

https://github.com/nbogojevic/midea-beautiful-dehumidifier

GitHub

Home Assistant Controller

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