Add contact sensors for Salt and Rise aid (Dishwasher)

[Lelfagit]

Instead of having buttons in HomeKit, which is great for automations, it would be very useful to have two contact sensors additionally which are exposing if the rinse aid or salt reservoir has to be refilled.

[thoukydides]

Sorry, but no.

Home Connect only reports conditions like low salt and rinse aid as events, rather than persistent status. It does not allow the current status of these supplies to be read. Hence, it only makes sense mapping these events to stateless buttons.

Anyway, I don't really see the point. The only reasons I see for integrating these appliances with HomeKit are:

• To allow control from Siri, shortcuts, or automations.
• To trigger automations.

The actual interface within the Home app is rubbish for appliances like these for which there isn't a suitable model. It is always better to use the official Home Connect app.