Tips for getting started on similar integration

[mariobgr]

Well, this integration is probably the best one I've used for Ariston NET - it works very smooth, sometimes better than the iOS app.

I recently got an appliance that uses Ariston Clima instead of Ariston NET - so it's not compatible with this integration.

I'd really like to give it a try on writing an integration for Ariston Clima - @fustom can you give me some tips on how you achieved the smooth functionality with this one? Also, what's the best starting point? I imagine it starts with decompiling of APK and working forward, but haven't written any HA integrations yet so any advice would be appreciated

[fustom]

Hi @mariobgr!

For reverse engineering:

• Decompiling of APK is one way.
• The second way is what I did to develop this integration: Documentation for API reverse engineering #35 (comment)
• But also you can use PCAPdroid (for android) to grab every communication package.
• You can find a way (teardown) to check, interrupt, get the appliance communication
• Maybe you can find or ask official documentation from Ariston
• Etc

For HA development follow the developer's guide: https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/creating_component_index