Kitchen's Kitchen

An update on Miele app and appliances.

All the appliances I purchased have a WiFi capability... but I've had a few issues getting it set up, so here's the low down for future posterity (in case a random person on the internet finds this).

Miele@mobile https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.miele.infocontrol

This is an Android app which is used to manage your appliances, view information, update them, synchronise their clocks, etc. It's useful. You can even view recipes, add shopping lists directly to your Ocado (or whatever), and your appliances will be guided through cooking stuff (as will you).

Most usefully: When you're at the other side of the house you can be notified your washing machine or oven is done. Or when you're out for a walk you can glance at the app and see what time things will be done.

So... what's the catch?

1. It appears the app and the Miele website use 2 different accounts. Both have different password complexities and requirements. Tip #1 is to make sure you don't use special characters in your password, keep the complexity low and the length low... this is annoyingly poor security. You also really want to make both usernames and passwords the same... also annoyingly poor security. Tip #2 don't use your real email address if you can avoid doing so, the email field is actually one you can go longer on, so I personally made the email complex and long to massively increase the entropy and to ensure that 2 parts are unknown given the short length and low complexity of the password. So... same email and password on both the website and the app, there are two accounts and you should make them the same.
   
2. Different appliances have different limitations in their connectivity. It turns out the cooker hood a Miele DA6998W couldn't see the 2.4Ghz channel 13 WiFi... took a while to understand that the networks it could see were all between channel 1 and channel 11.
   
3. The hood was supplied with an XKS3000Z module... but this doesn't fit anywhere in the hood, and the hob which is a Miele KM7575FR also had nowhere for it to go. Don't worry about it! Both this hood and hob connect to WiFi and will talk to each other via WiFi. The module only exists if this hood is paired with a Miele hob that doesn't have WiFi so that the hob can speak directly to the hood on it's own WiFi network.
   
4. Check the timezone on the clock synchronisation, it is probably wrong... so you'll have the time in sync, but the time will be an hour out (mine was set to CET not GMT).
   
5. The fridge is a Miele KFN29493 DE edt/cs and couldn't be connected to WiFi... it turns out that the WiFi module isn't installed. You can find the slot for this behind the bit of plastic hiding the top left hinge position. The module I needed is an XKS3100W which slots in and provides WiFi capability... I've got the dealer to order this.
   
   

Once all of the above were done... this shit works fine. It's rock solid, and allows me to control everything.