Bestway lay-z-spa

🇳🇱 Nederlands (Dutch)
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Hello,

I have a Bestway Lay-Z-Spa Milan 6-person model. The installation through the iOS app went smoothly.

I installed the Homey Pro app, and I’m able to turn the spa on and off via Homey, as well as enable and disable the bubble massage.

The temperature reading is displayed, although sometimes it takes a while to update.

However, I am unable to turn on the heater or activate the filtration (which turns on together with the heater). When I tap those controls, nothing happens, even though everything works perfectly in the official iOS app.

Is it normal that these features don’t work yet with Homey?

I mainly installed Homey to create scheduled automations for heating and filtration, so this is currently a major limitation.

I’ve already tried removing and reinstalling the Wi-Fi module on the spa, but it didn’t help.

Do you have a solution for this, or is this functionality still under development?

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I managed to turn the filtration on and off by bypassing the app, because I believe something is missing in its current functionality. The options in the app that are supposed to activate heating mode or turn off heating mode simply don’t work.

So I created two scripts: one to turn the filtration on, and one to turn it off. Then I added a virtual ON/OFF button. Now I’m able to build my automation scenarios as planned.

I’m not sure who maintains the app, but this part definitely needs to be reviewed.

I noticed the issue while using the Developer Tools console, where the pump_onoff command works perfectly when setting the value to true or false.

ON

const spaDeviceId = '60xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx';

const device = await Homey.devices.getDevice({ id: spaDeviceId });
await device.setCapabilityValue('pump_onoff', true);

return '✅ Filtration activée.';

OFF

const spaDeviceId = '60xxxxxxxxxxxxx;

const device = await Homey.devices.getDevice({ id: spaDeviceId });
await device.setCapabilityValue('pump_onoff', false);

return '⛔ Filtration désactivée.';
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for Home assistant there is a script now to control the new Bestway spa: GitHub - M1R4G376/New_bestway_spa: this librairy working can communicate with the latest Bestway app version smartspa
I hope this gets integrated in the Homey app too ( or a new homey app for it)

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I hope the app will be updated!