Automate best start of your BSH dishwasher based on the current energy prices. This allows you to run your dishwasher when the energy prices are low, saving you money and reducing your carbon footprint. To do so, just follow the instruction in here. Then configure your dishwasher in the Home Connect app to manual remote start mode. In order to start the automation, you need to press the remote start button in the dishwasher. The automation does the rest.

git clone https://github.com/cnadler86/dishwasher.git
cd dishwasher
git submodule update --init --recursive

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -r hcpy/requirements.txt

Follow the instruction in hcpy to get the home connect config file

Adapt the default values in App.py to your needs. The most important ones are:

• DEFAULT_PROGRAM_ID: The program ID of the program you want to run by default.
• DEFAULT_AUTOSELECT_HOUR: The hour after which the default program will be selected automatically
• FINISH_TIMES: List of finish times to consider, if empty, the default time will be used. This is useful if you want to run the dishwasher at a specific time, e.g. at night or in the morning.
• DEFAULT_FINISH_TIME: Normally, this is not needed and does not need to be changed, if you use the finish_times parameter
• RETRY_DELAY: Delay in seconds before retrying connection if it fails

chmod +x setup_service.py
chmod +x App.py
python setup_service.py
sudo cp dishwasher.service /etc/systemd/system/

sudo systemctl daemon-reexec
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable dishwasher.service
sudo systemctl start dishwasher.service