Miele: Difference between revisions - Consumer_Action

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Founded in 1899, '''[[Wikipedia:Miele|Miele]]''' is a German manufacturer of domestic appliances and commercial equipment.

==Proprietary smart-home ecosystem==

==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}}</ref>

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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==

===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:

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These functions came back slowly in 2022 after lots of negative feedback from users.

==Forced updates==

===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]]}}</ref>

==Products==

==References==

[[Category:Miele]]

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 Founded in 1899, '''[[Wikipedia:Miele|Miele]]''' is a German manufacturer of domestic appliances and commercial equipment.
-==Proprietary smart-home ecosystem==
+==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}}</ref>
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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==
+===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:
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 These functions came back slowly in 2022 after lots of negative feedback from users.
-==Forced updates==
+===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]]}}</ref>
+==Products==
 ==References==
 <references />
 [[Category:Miele]]