midea-beautiful-air 0.10.5

A library to control Midea appliances via the local network

This is a library that allows communication with Midea air conditioner and dehumidifier via the local area network.

midea-beautiful-air

This library allows discovering Midea air conditioners and dehumidifiers on local network, getting their state and controlling then. The name comes from Chinese name for Midea (美的) which translates to beautiful in English.

This library inspired from the repository at mac-zhou/midea-msmart which provides similar functionality for air conditioners and barban-dev/midea_inventor_dehumidifier cloud based functionality for dehumidifiers. This library may include verbatim or adapted portions of the code from those two projects.

Thanks also to yitsushi's project, NeoAcheron's project, andersonshatch's project.

Supported appliances

The library works with Midea air conditioners and dehumidifiers supporting V2 and V3 protocol.

Some examples of supported dehumidifiers:

• Comfee MDDF-16DEN7-WF or MDDF-20DEN7-WF (tested with 20L version)
• Inventor EVA ΙΟΝ Pro Wi-Fi (EP3-WiFi 16L/20L) (tested with 20L version)
• Inventor Eva II Pro Wi-Fi (EVP-WF16L/20L)
• Pro Breeze 30L Smart Dehumidifier with Wifi / App Control
• Midea SmartDry dehumidifiers (22, 35, 50 pint models )
• Midea Cube dehumidifiers (20, 35, 50 pint models)

It may as well work with other Midea Wi-Fi air conditioners and dehumidifiers.

Dehumidifier data

The following dehumidifier data is accessible through this library:

• on/off switch (boolean, can be set)
• current relative humidity (read-only)
• target relative humidity (can be set)
• active mode (can be set)
• fan speed (can be set)
• (an)ion mode status (boolean, can be set)
• tank is full (boolean, read-only)
• appliance name (read-only). Set through Midea mobile application.
• appliance serial number (read-only)
• appliance IPv4 address (read-only)
• token and key for local network access (read-only, only v3 appliances)
• filter replacement indicator (boolean, read-only, if supported on appliance)
• pump on/off switch (boolean, can be set, if supported on appliance)
• sleep mode on/off switch (boolean, can be set, if supported on appliance)
• defrosting mode indicator (boolean, read-only, if supported on appliance)
• internal error code (read-only)
• appliance characteristics, i.e. support for special modes, fan presets etc (read-only)
• beep prompt (write-only)
• tank water level (read-only, if supported by appliance)
• current ambient temperature (read-only)

Air Conditioner Data

The following air conditioner data is accessible through this library:

• on/off switch (boolean, can be set)
• target temperature(celsius, can be set)
• indoor temperature (celsius, read-only)
• outdoor temperature (celsius, read-only)
• active mode (can be set)
• air purifier mode (boolean, can be set)
• air drying mode (boolean, can be set)
• prevent freeze mode (boolean, can be set)
• comfort mode (boolean, can be set)
• horizontal swing operation (boolean, can be set)
• vertical swing operation (boolean, can be set)
• fahrenheit degree display (boolean, can be set)
• internal error code (read-only)
• appliance characteristics, i.e. support for special modes, fan presets etc (read-only)
• beep prompt (write-only)
• appliance name (read-only). Set through Midea mobile application.
• appliance serial number (read-only)
• appliance IPv4 address (read-only)
• token and key for local network access (read-only, only v3 appliances)

Discovery

This library is able to discover appliances on local network. This is done by broadcasting UDP packets to port 6445. Appliances will respond to this broadcast with their description packet. Following discovery, communication switches to TCP over port 6444. This communication is encrypted, and, for appliances with version 3 firmware the library needs a token/key (K1) combination associated to each appliance. This can be either provided as arguments or retrieved from Midea app account. Once obtained, the token/key (K1) pair can be reused for an appliance multiple times. The library can also retrieve the list of registered appliances from Midea app account and obtain additional information for devices (eg. name).

Library connects to Midea cloud API using credentials from NetHome Plus mobile app. You can use other Midea app mobile applications if you obtain their application key and id. See midea_beautiful/midea.py for some examples. Application key and application id must match, otherwise library won't be able to sign in.

The discovery should work on Linux and Windows based systems, however as of 2022 it doesn't work in Windows Subsystem for Linux and may not work in Docker containers or VMs as it depends network capabilities. For example, a VM or a container needs to have rights to broadcast to physical network to make discovery work. One workaround, if physical network access is not possible, is to run discovery from non-virtualized environment host.

If this discovery mechanism doesn't work on particular set-up, it is still possible to either target appliances directly using their IP address, when it is known, or to retrieve or set their status using cloud service.

Network considerations

Discovery requires that both the appliance and the machine performing discovery are on the same broadcast subnet. By default library issues broadcast to all network, i.e. address 255.255.255.255, but it is possible to restrict broadcast subnet (e.g. 192.0.2.255)

Local protocol support

Library supports following protocols:

• cloud based status reading and writing (no local access needed)
• v3 local protocol with compatible devices (requires TOKEN/KEY combination)
• v2 local protocol with compatible devices

Logging

Credentials information like username, password or token keys are redacted by default. When using command line, pass --no-redact option to show them in the logs. You can use command line tool to display token and key (K1) data.

Command Line Usage

Installing package

• The library requires Python 3.8 or later. Current version is tested with Python 3.11.

pip install --upgrade midea-beautiful-air

Command line tool help

midea-beautiful-air-cli --help
midea-beautiful-air-cli discover --help
midea-beautiful-air-cli set --help
midea-beautiful-air-cli status --help

Discovery

Discover appliances on the local network:

midea-beautiful-air-cli discover --account ACCOUNT_EMAIL --password PASSWORD

Show tokens used to connect to appliances via local network

midea-beautiful-air-cli discover --account ACCOUNT_EMAIL --password PASSWORD --credentials

Search for devices by providing explicit network address

midea-beautiful-air-cli discover --account ACCOUNT_EMAIL --password PASSWORD --address 192.0.2.3 --credentials

Search for devices by providing broadcast address

midea-beautiful-air-cli discover --account ACCOUNT_EMAIL --password PASSWORD --address 192.0.2.255 --credentials

Discovery when appliances are registered to a supported app:

midea-beautiful-air-cli --verbose ---log DEBUG discover --account ACCOUNT --password PASSWORD --credentials --app MSmartHome

Discovery when appliances are registered to new API (note that it is easier to use --app option):

midea-beautiful-air-cli --verbose ---log DEBUG discover --account ACCOUNT --password PASSWORD --credentials --appkey APPKEY --appid APPID --hmackey HMACKEY --iotkey IOTKEY --apiurl https://mp-prod.appsmb.com/mas/v5/app/proxy?alias= --proxied

Appliance status

Get status of an appliance using known TOKEN and KEY (e.g. retrieved using discover command)

midea-beautiful-air-cli status --ip APPLIANCE_IP_ADDRESS --token TOKEN --key KEY

Get status of an appliance using Midea app credentials

midea-beautiful-air-cli status --ip APPLIANCE_IP_ADDRESS --account ACCOUNT_EMAIL --password PASSWORD

Get status of an appliance through Midea cloud API (note the usage of --id and --cloud options)

midea-beautiful-air-cli status --id APPLIANCE_ID --account ACCOUNT_EMAIL --password PASSWORD --cloud

Set appliance attribute

Following are some examples of usage:

Set target relative humidity (0-100)

midea-beautiful-air-cli set --ip APPLIANCE_IP_ADDRESS --token TOKEN --key KEY --target-humidity 55

Sets operating mode (number 1 to 4)

midea-beautiful-air-cli set --ip APPLIANCE_IP_ADDRESS --token TOKEN --key KEY --mode 1

Turn on/off ion mode (0 or 1)

midea-beautiful-air-cli set --ip APPLIANCE_IP_ADDRESS --token TOKEN --key KEY --ion-mode 1

Turn appliance on/off mode (0 or 1)

midea-beautiful-air-cli set --ip APPLIANCE_IP_ADDRESS --token TOKEN --key KEY --running 1

Turn on/off pump (0 or 1)

midea-beautiful-air-cli set --ip APPLIANCE_IP_ADDRESS --token TOKEN --key KEY --pump 1

Combinations of multiple settings

midea-beautiful-air-cli set --ip APPLIANCE_IP_ADDRESS --token TOKEN --key KEY --fan-speed 60 --target-humidity 50

Set target humidity through Midea cloud API (note the usage of --id and --cloud options)

midea-beautiful-air-cli set --id APPLIANCE_ID --account ACCOUNT_EMAIL --password PASSWORD --target-humidity 55 --cloud

Get list of all settable attributes:

midea-beautiful-air-cli set --help

Specifying log level

Log level is specified using --log option.

Set DEBUG level

midea-beautiful-air-cli --log DEBUG discover --account ACCOUNT_EMAIL --password PASSWORD

Very verbose level (may contain confidential information)

midea-beautiful-air-cli --log NOTSET discover --account ACCOUNT_EMAIL --password PASSWORD

Set WARNING level (default log level if option was not specified)

midea-beautiful-air-cli --log WARNING discover --account ACCOUNT_EMAIL --password PASSWORD

Additional logging is enabled by passing --verbose option. Redacting of sensitive information can be disabled by passing --no-redact option.

Code examples

Discover appliances on local network:

from midea_beautiful import find_appliances


appliances = find_appliances(
    account="[e-mail]",  # Account e-mail
    password="secret_password",  # Account password
)
for appliance in appliances:
    print(f"{appliance!r}")

Get appliance state:

from midea_beautiful import appliance_state

appliance = appliance_state(
    address=192.0.2.2,  # APPLIANCE_IP_ADDRESS 
    token="TOKEN",  # TOKEN obtained from Midea API
    key="KEY",  # Token KEY obtained from Midea API
)
print(f"{appliance!r}")

Get appliance state from cloud:

from midea_beautiful import appliance_state, connect_to_cloud


cloud = connect_to_cloud(
            account="[e-mail]",  # Account e-mail
            password="secret_password",  # Account password
            appname="MSmartHome"
        )

appliance = appliance_state( 
    cloud=cloud,  # Account e-mail
    id=appliance_id,  # Appliance id obtained from Midea API 
)
print(f"{appliance!r}")

Build the library

Library is automatically built, packaged and published to PyPI when a Git Hub release is published.

Known issues

• Some of values are not available on all appliances. Some appliances may acknowledge action which has no effect (e.g. ion mode)
• Temperature sensor is often under-reporting real ambient temperature. This may be due to sensor proximity to cooling pipes of the humidifier, algorithm or electronics error. The under-reporting depends on the active mode, and stronger modes may result in larger offset from real temperature.

See also

• https://github.com/nbogojevic/homeassistant-midea-dehumidifier-lan

Notice

Midea, Inventor, Comfee', Pro Breeze, and other names are trademarks of their respective owners.