Test compatibility with Bouni/luxtronik-python@main

[rhammen]

This BenPru/luxtronik integration relies on the python-luxtronik library. Correct definition of new luxtronik parameters, calculations should preferably be done in that library, otherwise can we need to apply more and more band-aids in this integration for get things working. Related to some discovery problems I also noted several screenshots showing 'None' as the Heatpump manufacturer and Model, possibly/likely because the existing python-luxtronik library does not yet 'know' these new heatpump types. BenPru asked for a (bigger) update about 2 years ago, https://github.com/Bouni/python-luxtronik/issues/136 , but development came to a halt last year. :-( I have now asked if it would be possible for that library to release a small update, and this may be an option.... :-)

We should therefore check if the current development version Bouni/luxtronik-python@main doesn't break the current integration.

I am setting up a branch https://github.com/BenPru/luxtronik/tree/test_compatibility_with_main_python-luxtronik we can use to test this.

[AJediIAm]

Could we document this as a coding standard/guide? It would be nice to have a small guide for not so experienced developers (like myself) on how to discover and add new parameters properly.

It would also allow me to better review and suggest improvements.

[rhammen]

My testing approach so far is this:

• I tried pointing to the python-luxtrunik main branch in manifest.json, but that didn't work
• I have my Home Assistant running in a docker container
• What did work is manually updating python-luxtronik in my home assistant docker container: docker exec -it homeassistant /bin/bash and then

pip uninstall luxtronik
pip install git+https://github.com/Bouni/python-luxtronik.git@main

• exit the docker container
• update manifest.json to 'luxtronik' iso 'luxtronik==0.3.14' to prevent my changes from being overwritten! docker restart homeassistant
• then the debugging begins: looking at the errors of the luxtronik2 integration not starting up, because of some changes in the python-luxtronik....

Is this what you are looking for in terms of documentation of the process? Or something else?