Since entity.py started routing named descriptors through the catalog
under desc.key, SamsungEntityDescription.name has been read for its
value nowhere -- only twice as a flag, to decide whether an entity was
translated at all. That left 148 English names duplicated between Python
and translations/en.json with nothing keeping them honest: six had
already drifted, invisibly, because editing the Python side changes
nothing a user sees.
So the field is gone, and translation_key defaults to desc.key. A
descriptor now sets translation_key only to share one catalog entry
across descriptors or to point at a differently-named one, and the
catalog is the only place an entity name exists.
Every descriptor resolves to exactly the translation key, icon, entity
category, enabled-default and gating it did before -- with one
deliberate exception: the hood fan, previously the sole descriptor with
no key at all, now resolves to 'fan'. That is inert, because fan.py sets
_attr_name = None so the entity presents as the device itself.
The three helpers that forwarded a name into a descriptor
(laundry.bool_option_switch, washer._bool_option_switch, air_purifier's
sensor table) lose that parameter. test_translations.py now requires a
catalog entry for every descriptor rather than only translated ones.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GiibJZZLWVvyxq7mc7EDNp
Simplification (feedback: this was overcomplicated): drop the
validated_table gate entirely. cycle_select's table_href now just builds
the translation key directly from whatever course table the device
reports (washer_cycle + Table_02 -> washer_cycle_table_02) instead of
comparing against a hardcoded known-good value and falling back to no key
on any mismatch. A table we haven't shipped translations for yet (e.g.
FlexWash's Table_00) still gets a key built for it -- Home Assistant's own
missing-translation handling takes it from there, the same graceful
fallback already relied on for any individual untranslated code within an
existing table. Adding a newly-confirmed table later is just new
strings.json entries, no code change.
Independent (Opus) review of the prior version caught two real issues,
fixed here regardless of the simplification above:
- translation_key was resolved once at entity construction from whatever
coordinator.last_resources held at that moment. Discovery can run while
a sibling resource is still an empty stub (documented precedent: see
_is_included), so a callable translation_key could permanently bake in
a stale value for the entity's lifetime. Moved resolution into a
translation_key property override (Entity.translation_key is a property
upstream, not a plain attribute), re-evaluated against live coordinator
data on every access, matching how options/current_option already work.
- The supportedOptions fallback's "smallest passing K wins" docstring
claimed every larger passing K is an exact multiple of the true one.
False: the shipped dishwasher fixture has passing K=7 (true) alongside
10, 14, and 35, none of which are multiples of 7 -- position 0 always
lands on the same real course code regardless of K, which alone
satisfies the current-course guard for several unrelated splits.
Corrected the reasoning to what's actually true (an empirically-matched
heuristic across six real dumps, not a proof) and added a regression
test locking in the real dishwasher case so this isn't silently lost.
First full dryer dump (issue #14, DV90BB5245AES1) surfaced 5 unbound
hrefs and an "incomplete capability coverage" repair. Handle them and,
while here, make the washer/dryer/dishwasher families consistent instead
of each carrying a bespoke variant of the same controls.
Dryer coverage:
- /power/0, /kidslock/0, /remotectrl/0: bind via the OCF-native + vendor
fallback pairs (prefer the standard OCF resource, fall back to -vs).
- /buzzersound/vs/0: new Buzzer sound select.
- /course/vs/0: cycle select shared with washer/dishwasher; ignore the
/st/dryercourse/vs/0 re-encoding (mirror of /st/washercourse/vs/0).
Consistency / de-duplication:
- Move generic OCF controls (power/kids-lock/remote-control fallback
pairs, energy meter) into common.py; every registry uses them.
- Move shared laundry controls (buzzer, job-beginning-status, and the
/course/vs/0 cycle-select machinery) into laundry.py; washer and
dishwasher stop hand-rolling their own copies.
- Energy meter is now sentinel-aware everywhere: the dead '-500'
instantaneousPower reading no longer shows a misleading 0 W (fixes it
on dryers and dishwashers, matching the earlier washer fix).
- Job-beginning-status reads x.com.samsung.da.currentStatus, the field
every dump actually carries; the dryer sensor was previously blank.
Adds a scrubbed dryer fixture, golden, and capability tests, plus an
.claude/skills/adding-device-support skill capturing the dump-reading,
OCF-vs-vendor, entity-taxonomy, and coverage workflow. Bumps to 0.6.0.
Course selection is now a writable select entity sourced from each
device's own x.com.samsung.da.editCourseList (via a new options-as-callable
form on SelectDesc, reading the coordinator's full resource snapshot
instead of just the entity's own href), rather than a hardcoded course
table baked into Python. A MostUsed_ field on the same resource was
considered as a fallback but rejected after byte-level analysis showed it
doesn't reliably encode a course list. When a device never populates
editCourseList, the selector isn't created at all (exists_fn now takes
(rep, resources) to check a sibling href, matching the existing
match_fn(rep, resources) pattern).
Display names moved out of Python into strings.json/translations under
entity.select.{washer,dishwasher}_cycle.state.*, matching this
integration's existing translation_key convention (fridge.py's ice_type,
flex_zone_mode, etc.) instead of hardcoding English names in code.
Marc Billow