Add "cycles" option from Roborock S7 and older models

[Dielee]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I have already tried with wireshark and bluestacks to sniff the new function of "cycles". Unfortunately no UDP packets arrive on the miio port 54321. Maybe someone can help ?

Describe the solution you'd like
I would like to implement the "cycles" option form newer roborock vaccums into python-miio.I can't manage to capture the traffic of the miio protocol.

Device information:
If the enhancement is device-specific, please include also the following information.

• Name(s) of the device: Roborock S7 (roborock.vacuum.a15) and maybe some more

[rytilahti]

What does the cycles do? If you execute miiocli vacuum --help it will print you a list of already supported features (some of which may not be implemented in homeassistant, if you are using it).

I'm not sure why you are not seeing related packets using wireshark or bluestacks, so I cannot really help you there, but it seems to indicate that the communication is not done locally but over the cloud..

[Dielee]

Cycles cleans the same a room for X times. This is very useful for mopping.

This feature looks like this:

Maybe communication ist working over cloud, but python-miio works local.
S7 works with python-miio, so there has to be a way to start this feature locally.
@fettlaus implemented the S7 integration, maybe he can help ?

Thank you!

[Dielee]

Looks like S7 is using the new miotspec protocol, which does not work locally, but supports the "old" miio protocol also.
Maybe I will take a look into the https connection with miotspec tomorrow.

[fettlaus]

To be fair: all I did was some trial and error. I didn't even need to sniff network traffic.

[Dielee]

Do you think it is possible to find the cycles feature for app_segment_clean by trial and error ?

[fettlaus]

I currently don't want to start my vacuum, but please try something like this: miiocli vacuum --ip 192.168.x.x --token xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx segment_clean '[{"segments":[18],"repeat":2}]
If it works there is no code change necessary maybe only a hint in the docs. (got the code from marcelrv/XiaomiRobotVacuumProtocol/issues/44)

[rytilahti]

If that works, the segment_clean could be improved to take those as parameters instead of passing a raw json array (and marking the repeat feature only to be usable for specific models) :-)

If the other start commands also accept the repeat keyword, they could also be revised accordingly!

[Dielee]

This works:
miiocli vacuum --ip 192.168.x.x --token xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx segment_clean '[{"segments":[18],"repeat":2}]

And this works, too:
miio protocol call 192.168.x.x app_segment_clean '[{"segments":[16],"repeat":2}]'

So, we don't need to modify anything as app_segment_clean takes the Json parameters.

[Dielee]

Got this working in HA like this:

input_select:

  clean_cycles:
    options:
      - '1'
      - '2'
      - '3'
    initial: '1'

script:

service: vacuum.send_command
data:
  command: app_segment_clean
  params:
    - segments:
        - 20
      repeat: |
        {% set timesToClean = states('input_select.clean_cycles') %}
        {{ timesToClean }}
target:
  entity_id: vacuum.xiaomi

[schmieeed]

Got this working in Openhab like this:
Openhab version openHAB 3.1.0 Release Build
Roborock S7: Firmware: 4.1.5_1320
Channel: miio:vacuum:1X4XXXXa7e:actions#commands (String) - - > app_segment_clean [{"segments":[22],"repeat":3}]

[Schwebebahn]

Thanks for the informations here, they helped me a lot. For those who are locking on how to do it in an openhab rule, here is mine (using the cloud connection):
Roborock_ExecuteRPCcloudCommand.sendCommand("app_segment_clean[{segments:[19],repeat:2}]")