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# MELCloud Binding

This is an openHAB binding for Mitsubishi MELCloud (https://www.melcloud.com/ (opens new window)). Installing this binding you can control your Mitsubishi devices from openHAB without accessing the MELCloud App and benefiting from all openHAB automations.

# Supported Things

Supported thing types

  • melcloudaccount (bridge)
  • acdevice
  • heatpump

A bridge is required to connect to your MELCloud account.

# Discovery

Discovery is used after a bridge has been created and configured with your login information.

  1. Add the binding
  2. Add a new thing of type melcloudaccount and configure with username and password
  3. Go to Inbox and start discovery devices using MELCloud Binding
  4. Supported devices (A.C. Device, Heatpump Device) should appear in your inbox

Binding support also manual thing configuration by thing files.

# Thing Configuration

In order to manually create a thing file and not use the discovery routine you will need to know device MELCloud device ID. This is a bit difficult to get. The easiest way of getting this is enable debug level logging of the binding or discovery devices by the binding (discovered device can be removed afterwards).

MELCloud account configuration:

Config Mandatory Description
username x Email address tied to MELCloud account.
password x Password to MELCloud account.
language Language ID, see table below.
LanguageId Language
0 English (default)
1 Bulgarian
2 Czech
3 Danish
4 German
5 Estonian
6 Spanish
7 French
8 Armenian
9 Latvian
10 Lithuanian
11 Hungarian
12 Dutch
13 Norwegian
14 Polish
15 Portuguese
16 Russian
17 Finnish
18 Swedish
19 Italian
20 Ukrainian
21 Turkish
22 Greek
23 Croatian
24 Romanian
25 Slovenian

A.C. device and Heatpump device configuration:

Config Mandatory Description
deviceID x MELCloud device ID.
buildingID MELCloud building ID. If not defined, binding tries to find matching id by device ID.
pollingInterval Refresh time interval in seconds for updates from MELCloud. Defaults to 60 seconds.

# Channels

A.C. device channels

Channel Type Description Read Only
power Switch Power Status of Device. False
operationMode String Operation mode: "1" = Heat, "2" = Dry, "3" = Cool, "7" = Fan, "8" = Auto. False
setTemperature Number:Temperature Set Temperature: Min = 10, Max = 40. False
fanSpeed String Fan speed: "0" = Auto, "1" = 1, "2" = 2, "3" = 3, "4" = 4, "5" = 5. False
vaneHorizontal String Vane Horizontal: "0" = Auto, "1" = 1, "2" = 2, "3" = 3, "4" = 4, "5" = 5, "12" = Swing. False
vaneVertical String Vane Vertical: "0" = Auto, "1" = 1, "2" = 2, "3" = 3, "4" = 4, "5" = 5, "7" = Swing. False
roomTemperature Number:Temperature Room temperature. True
lastCommunication DateTime Last Communication time when MELCloud communicated to the device. True
nextCommunication DateTime Next communication time when MELCloud will communicate to the device. True
offline Switch Is device in offline state. True
hasPendingCommand Switch Device has a pending command(s). True

Heatpump device channels

Channel Type Description Read Only
power Switch Power Status of Device. False
forcedHotWaterMode Switch If water mode is Heat Now (true) or Auto (false) False
setTemperatureZone1 Number:Temperature Set Temperature Zone 1: Min = 10, Max = 30. False
roomTemperatureZone1 Number:Temperature Room temperature Zone 1. True
tankWaterTemperature Number:Temperature Tank water temperature. True
lastCommunication DateTime Last Communication time when MELCloud communicated to the device. True
nextCommunication DateTime Next communication time when MELCloud will communicate to the device. True
offline Switch Is device in offline state. True
hasPendingCommand Switch Device has a pending command(s). True

# Full Example for items configuration

melcloud.things

Bridge melcloud:melcloudaccount:myaccount "My MELCloud account" [ username="[email protected]", password="xxxxxx", language="0" ] {
    Thing acdevice livingroom "Livingroom A.C. device" [ deviceID=123456, pollingInterval=60 ]
	Thing heatpump attic "Attic Heatpump device" [ deviceID=789012, pollingInterval=60 ]
}

melcloud.items

Switch      power               { channel="melcloud:acdevice:myaccount:livingroom:power" }
String      operationMode       { channel="melcloud:acdevice:myaccount:livingroom:operationMode" }
Number      setTemperature      { channel="melcloud:acdevice:myaccount:livingroom:setTemperature" }
String      fanSpeed            { channel="melcloud:acdevice:myaccount:livingroom:fanSpeed" }
String      vaneHorizontal      { channel="melcloud:acdevice:myaccount:livingroom:vaneHorizontal" }
String      vaneVertical        { channel="melcloud:acdevice:myaccount:livingroom:vaneVertical" }
Number      roomTemperature     { channel="melcloud:acdevice:myaccount:livingroom:roomTemperature" }
DateTime    lastCommunication   { channel="melcloud:acdevice:myaccount:livingroom:lastCommunication" }
DateTime    nextCommunication   { channel="melcloud:acdevice:myaccount:livingroom:nextCommunication" }
Switch      offline             { channel="melcloud:acdevice:myaccount:livingroom:offline" }
Switch      hasPendingCommand   { channel="melcloud:acdevice:myaccount:livingroom:hasPendingCommand" }

Switch      heatpumpPower               { channel="melcloud:heatpump:myaccount:attic:power" }
Switch      heatpumpForcedHotWaterMode  { channel="melcloud:heatpump:myaccount:attic:forcedHotWaterMode" }
Number      heatpumpSetTemperatureZone1 { channel="melcloud:heatpump:myaccount:attic:setTemperatureZone1" }
Number      heatpumpRoomTemperatureZone1{ channel="melcloud:heatpump:myaccount:attic:roomTemperatureZone1" }
Number      heatpumpTankWaterTemperature{ channel="melcloud:heatpump:myaccount:attic:tankWaterTemperature" }
DateTime    heatpumpLastCommunication   { channel="melcloud:heatpump:myaccount:attic:lastCommunication" }
DateTime    heatpumpNextCommunication   { channel="melcloud:heatpump:myaccount:attic:nextCommunication" }
Switch      heatpumpOffline             { channel="melcloud:heatpump:myaccount:attic:offline" }
Switch      heatpumpHasPendingCommand   { channel="melcloud:heatpump:myaccount:attic:hasPendingCommand" }