How does the connectlife.update work

[h200101]

Hi!

First of all, thanks for this project – it works really well for my needs. The only thing I am missing is support for getting updates from my dryer.

I have already added configuration for my dryer in a PR, but it wasn’t approved. While looking into alternatives, I noticed the .update service, but I’m not sure how to use it.

From the docs it looks like data should be a dictionary, but I don’t understand what the keys/values should be. In the PR linked above I also don’t quite follow what numbers like 1 and 4 represent.

Could someone clarify:

What kind of dictionary does .update expect?

Where do the IDs like 1 and 4 come from (are they fixed command IDs from the backend, or device-specific)?

How should this be used for dryers?

Thanks a lot for your help!

[oyvindwe]

I have commented on PR #298 now

Regarding the update service, there are some examples in the discussion in issue #181

[h200101]

Hi!
I’ve gone through the ticket, but I think I misunderstood how the function works. I originally thought the update integration would fetch the current properties from the server. From what I see now, the .update function can set multiple parameters at once, is that correct?

What I’m actually looking for is a built-in way to refresh properties from the cloud back into Home Assistant. When I change a property in HA, it’s immediately reflected in the app, but changes made in the app don’t sync back to HA. I’d like to add a button to my dashboard called “Update settings” to pull the latest values (time, program, etc.) from the cloud.

Is there a recommended way to do this?

[oyvindwe]

The integration updates every 60 seconds. It cannot pull more often, as that would overload the ConnectLife API, and the integration would be banned.

[h200101]

Oh, okay. That is a shame ...

Thank you!