Introduce support for Gardena mowers
jeff-winn opened this issue · comments
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe:
As a user, I would like to use a Gardena series mower with the plug-in.
Describe the solution you'd like:
Begin introducing support for the Gardena mowers in a preview form.
Describe alternatives you've considered:
Leaving the mower unsupported. Gone back and forth on this a few times, with everything in place it shouldn’t be much work to add it.
Additional context:
I will need help to do this as I won’t have the hardware required for Husqvarna to authorize access to the APIs. It seems you must have a Gardena product registered.
Mower:
- Year: 2016
- Model: Sileno Smart City 500
Acceptance Criteria
- Gardena Smart mowers are discovered on startup
- Turning the mower switch on causes the mower to mow the lawn
- Turning the mower switch off causes the mower to park
- While the mower is moving around the property the motion sensor indicates movement
- When the mower is going home the arriving contact sensor is set
- When the mower is leaving home the leaving contact sensor is set
- When the mower encounters a fault, the motion sensor indicates faulted
- When the mower has been tampered with, the motion sensor indicates tampered
Going to reach out to Reddit and see if I can find someone to assist.
Edit: Created the post on there, hopefully someone will find an interest in it and reach out here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/automower/comments/zs49jb/looking_for_someone_with_a_gardena_smart_series/
@cschildhorn any interest in helping with this?
@jeff-winn Hi. I would love to help. I have a Gardena Sileno Smart 500.
Hi @jeff-winn I recently switched to Home Assistant. Sorry.
@GEDE35 sorry for the delayed response, we got influenza yesterday. I’ll probably reach back out in a couple days once the virus has ran it’s course.
In the meantime it might be easier to handle the communication while we do this together on the Homebridge Discord.
https://discord.gg/homebridge-432663330281226270
Also, do you already have Homebridge installed? If not, you’ll want that as well.
@jeff-winn No worries. I just noticed that you specifically asked for someone who has a Gardena product registered. My mower is unfortunately not registered. I do still want to help if I can.
Theoretically as long as you can control the mower from an app while you’re not at home it should be doable.
I can control it through the gardena app away from home, so that should be fine.
I found the homebridge discord. We can continue there.
@jeff-winn I am interested in helping with this.
I have a Gardena Smart gateway installed with a Gardena Sileno series mower registered to the account.
I am using Apple HomeKit and have an existing Homebridge already installed.
I have access to Postman for doing RESTful API calls.
I have a Discord account.
I am on Central European Time
@Barloew awesome! I can always use some more testers to help with it. Here's an invite link to the Homebridge Discord, just add me as a friend on Discord (jeff-winn#6551) and we can get you going. We've been doing it over DMs due to the transferring log files for diagnostics as we add functionality.