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This adapter integrates Mitsubishi Electric devices via MELCloud (https://www.melcloud.com/) into ioBroker.

Documentation:

• Forum thread
• English description
• Deutsche Beschreibung

• (Black-Thunder) Added new option to completely disable polling

• (Black-Thunder) Login procedure was refactored to reduce number of calls to the MELCloud servers
• (Black-Thunder) Minimum polling interval was raised to 5 minutes
• (Black-Thunder) Default polling interval was raised to 10 minutes

• (Black-Thunder) Minimum Node.js Version was raised to 16
• (Black-Thunder) Dependencies were updated

• (Black-Thunder) Memory leak was fixed

• (Black-Thunder) Certificate issues were fixed (e.g. "Error: unable to verify the first certificate")

• (Black-Thunder) Handling of error data from cloud was improved
• (Black-Thunder) Admin UI has been updated
• (Black-Thunder) ATW devices: New state "heatPumpFrequency" added
• (Black-Thunder) ATW devices: New state "operationState" added
• (Black-Thunder) ATW devices: Commands "operationModeZone1" and "operationModeZone2" fixed

• (Black-Thunder) fixed "undefined is not a valid state value" log messages
• (Black-Thunder) fixed crash after connection is lost (e.g. due to missing internet connection)
• (Black-Thunder) updated admin UI and translations
• (Black-Thunder) fixed a lot of adapter checker issues and warnings

• (Black-Thunder) added online status to each device (visible in admin object tree)
• (Black-Thunder) added error status to each device (visible in admin object tree)
• (Black-Thunder) added error code and messages to device info
• (Black-Thunder) added new command "timerToggle" to enable/disable device timers

• (Black-Thunder) added consumption reports for air to water devices

• (Black-Thunder) Added support for air to water devices (e.g., heat pumps)
• (Black-Thunder) Added new device-independent channel "reports" fur cumulative reports across all devices (see documentation for new structure)
• (Black-Thunder) Restructured device-specific channel "reports" and added new sub-channel "lastReportData" (see documentation for new structure)
• (Black-Thunder) Fix: always trigger on "getPowerConsumptionReport" ignoring the state value
• (Black-Thunder) Fixed js-controller warnings

• (Black-Thunder) fixed warnings

• (Black-Thunder) replaced deprecated package "request" with "axios"
• (Black-Thunder) fix warnings for js-controller v4
• (Black-Thunder) updated dependencies

• (Black-Thunder) implemented separate queue for sending device commands to improve robustness when sending multiple commands
• (Black-Thunder) only update "control" state values with ack=true when it was requested by user before

• (Black-Thunder) IMPORTANT: The adapter now requires js-controller 3.1 at least
• (Black-Thunder) ignore unchanged state values to decrease network traffic
• (Black-Thunder) only update state values if they are really changed
• (Black-Thunder) extend existing objects to ensure compatibility with js-controller >= v3.2
• (Black-Thunder) only allow values with 0.5 steps for "targetTemp"

• (Black-Thunder) added compatibility with js-controller >= v3.2
• (Black-Thunder) updated dependencies

Attention: With this version you must reenter your password in the adapter settings and save again! Otherwise, login will fail.

• (Black-Thunder) fix: correctly use auto decryption handling for password
• (Black-Thunder) polling interval in adapter settings is now limited to values greater than 0

• (Black-Thunder) new functionality: retrieve power consumption reports
• (Black-Thunder) adapter connection state now correctly set accordingly to the cloud connection
• (Black-Thunder) added release-script and Dependabot, updated dependencies

• (Black-Thunder) implemented queue mechanism for sending requests to cloud
• (Black-Thunder) disabled adapter autostart after installation

• (Black-Thunder) added more checks when processing HTTP response
• (Black-Thunder) corrected typo in subscribeStates()
• (Black-Thunder) moved subscribeStates() after init and first successful connection

• (Black-Thunder) added new value for 'vaneHorizontalDirection': 50/50 (1 vane left, 1 vane right - only for models with 2 independent horizontal vanes)

• (Black-Thunder) renamed pre-defined values for 'vaneHorizontalDirection' and 'vaneVerticalDirection'
• (Black-Thunder) refactored polling logic: if connection is lost, a maximum of 3 retries are made; if still not successful, the next retry will be made after 1 hour

• (Black-Thunder) correctly classify 'pollingInterval' as number
• (Black-Thunder) corrected max values for states 'vaneHorizontalDirection' and 'vaneVerticalDirection'
• (Black-Thunder) check 'vaneHorizontalDirection' and 'vaneVerticalDirection' for valid values

• (Black-Thunder) fixed bug in device control when two or more devices are present

• (Black-Thunder) re-added "melcloud.X.info" node as it breaks display of connection state otherwise
• (Black-Thunder) some refactoring

• (Black-Thunder) technical improvements for setting 'power'

• (Black-Thunder) parent for each device is now a channel
• (Black-Thunder) "melcloud.X.info" node removed, state "connection" now directly assigned to "melcloud.X"

• (Black-Thunder) optimized performance/reduced DB transactions
• (Black-Thunder) dynamically adjust min/max limits for 'targetTemp' and 'setFanSpeed'
• (Black-Thunder) added more documentation

• (Black-Thunder) added indicator if device is reachable
• (Black-Thunder) corrected role of "targetTemp", "power" and "deviceName"
• (Black-Thunder) added new states "macAddress" and "actualFanSpeed" (indicates fan speed when running in auto mode)
• (Black-Thunder) added translations

• (Black-Thunder) fixed crash when devices are assigned to different floors/areas

• (Black-Thunder) fixed "Swing" of vanes

• (Black-Thunder) fix "power" state

• (Black-Thunder) create object folders as channels so that enums can be assigned
• (Black-Thunder) predefined states for fan speed, vane horizontal/vertical, "Swing" added
• (Black-Thunder) changing operation mode doesn't power on device anymore
• (Black-Thunder) min/max for setTemperature added

• (Black-Thunder) added more error logging

• (Black-Thunder) operation modes "Dry" and "Vent" added, removed confusing mode "Off" (device state is now only controlled by "power")
• (Black-Thunder) control of fan speed, horizontal and vertical vane direction added
• (Black-Thunder) reduced amount of logging entries

• (Black-Thunder) fixed 'request' dependency

• (Black-Thunder) fixed check of adapter settings
• (Black-Thunder) added more logging

• (Black-Thunder) first implementation of device control (all states under "device.XXX.control")
• (Black-Thunder) added more device options
• (Black-Thunder) extended and optimized logging (e.g., when logging into MelCloud)
• (Black-Thunder) implemented polling of cloud data

• (Black-Thunder) fixed password encryption

• (Black-Thunder) refactored code
• (Black-Thunder) prepared device control

• (Black-Thunder) password stored encrypted
• (Black-Thunder) fixed username check
• (Black-Thunder) implemented adapter connection state based on cloud connection
• (Black-Thunder) handled connection failures to cloud better
• (Black-Thunder) optimized logging

• (Black-Thunder) initial release

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