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This is a custom component for Home Assistant to integrate the Midea Air Conditioners via the Local area network.

Tested with hass version 0.110.2

Installation

Install from HACS

Search the HACS Store for midea_ac

Install manually

1. Clone this repo
2. Place the custom_components/midea_ac folder into your custom_components folder

Configuration

Configuration variables:

key	description	example
platform (Required)	The platform name.	midea_ac
host (Required)	Midea AC Device's IP Address.	192.168.1.100
id (Required)	Midea AC Device's applianceId.	123456789012345
use_fan_only_workaround (Optional)	Set this to true if you need to turn off device updates because they turn device on and to fan_only	true

How to Get applianceId:

• you can use command midea-discover to discover midea devices on the host in the same Local area network. Note: This component only supports devices with model 0xac (air conditioner) and words supported in the output.

pip3 install msmart
midea-discover

• if you use Midea Air app outside China, there is a easy way to get your deviceid.

1. open Midea Air app, and share the device, you will get a QR Code.
2. save the QR Code
3. upload QR Code Sreenshort to https://zxing.org/w/decode.jspx or decode QR code use other tool.
4. you will get the data like MADEVICESHARE:<base64_string>
5. decode base64 string online https://www.base64decode.org/ or use other tool
6. you will get the device id

• if you use android, you can use adb，filter from log:

adb logcat | grep -i deviceid

• if you use iPhone，iPhone connects to macOS with a data cable and filters the applianceId from the console log

• If you do not have the above environment and conditions, you need to capture the air conditioner and save the files, after can be used pcap-decrypt.py to Get. Remember to use the number, not hex string.

Example configuration.yaml:

• Single device

climate:
  - platform: midea_ac
    host: 192.168.1.100
    id: 123456789012345

• Multiple device

climate:
  - platform: midea_ac
    host: 192.168.1.100
    id: 123456789012345
  - platform: midea_ac
    host: 192.168.1.200
    id: 543210987654321

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