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| Founded = 1899 | |Founded=1899 | ||
| Industry = Manufacturing | |Industry=Manufacturing | ||
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'''[[Wikipedia:Miele|Miele]]''' is a German manufacturer of domestic appliances and commercial equipment. It was founded in 1899 by Carl Miele and Reinhard Zinkann. | |||
==Consumer-impact summary== | |||
====Freedom==== | |||
====Privacy==== | |||
====Business model==== | |||
====Market control==== | |||
==Incidents== | |||
===Proprietary smart-home ecosystem=== | |||
Miele appliances are equipped with online functionality, and protocols used for managing those appliances are proprietary. No Matter integration is provided although Miele is part of CSA.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Miele |url=https://csa-iot.org/members/search/?m_keywords=miele |access-date=20 Mar 2025 |website=CSA |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250120130535/https://csa-iot.org/members/search/?m_keywords=miele |archive-date=20 Jan 2025}}</ref> | |||
Instead Miele offers its own protocol which is difficult to set up, needs a Miele Developer Account<ref>{{Cite web |title=Miele 3rd Party API Version 1.0.7 |url=https://www.miele.com/developer/ |url-status=live |access-date=20 Mar 2025 |website=[[Miele]] |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251104153124/https://www.miele.com/developer/ |archive-date=4 Nov 2025}}</ref> and is only practical for technically experienced users. | |||
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Miele devices do not offer any official local API and instead require a connection to Miele's cloud service for any form of integration or app control to work. However, recent efforts of the [https://github.com/akappner/MieleRESTServer MieleRESTServer project] seem to have had success in controlling some devices via the local network through unofficial means. | |||
===Miele app incident (2021)=== | |||
With Version 4.0 released in 2021, the Miele companion app had suddenly lost critical advertised features<ref>{{Cite web |title=TwinDos detergent container levels no longer editable on new Miele home app? |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/Miele/comments/ph4udc/twindos_detergent_container_levels_no_longer/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1 |url-status=live |access-date=20 Mar 2025 |website=[[Reddit]]}}</ref> such as: | |||
==Miele app incident== | |||
With Version 4.0 released in 2021, the Miele companion app had suddenly lost critical advertised features<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Miele/comments/ph4udc/twindos_detergent_container_levels_no_longer/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1 | |||
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These functions came back slowly in 2022 after lots of negative feedback from users. | These functions came back slowly in 2022 after lots of negative feedback from users. | ||
===Forced updates (2022)=== | |||
A user on X has reported that their dishwasher refuses to start unless the user run an update which the device has found after being connected to a WiFi.<ref>{{Cite web |last=@isislovecruft |date=31 Jan 2022 |title=my dishwasher won’t start until i let it update its firmware over the wifi |url=https://x.com/isislovecruft/status/1487947074901463040 |url-status=live |access-date=19 Mar 2025 |website=[[X]] |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250708184047/https://x.com/isislovecruft/status/1487947074901463040 |archive-date=8 Jul 2025}}</ref> | |||
==Products== | |||
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== See also == | |||
* [[Bosch]] | |||
* [[GE Appliances]] | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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