Venta AH5xx Original Connect Configuration Guide

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Great integration, i originally tried the Tuya integration to add my Venta humidifiers but it didn't work and wasn't obvious how to make it work, so I figured i'd try this anyway it was pretty straightforward to figure out the DPs for the humidifier.

Here's a copy of my config for anyone else who gets one of these and wants to set it up, it was pretty straightforward to figure out everything except the mode setting. Using normal as a command worked but it returned something else as the state, if you want the controls to work right you should use the evaporations as your command values.

natural_evaporation == normal
heating_evaporation == sleep
ultrasonic_evaporation == automatic

Oh there's one more ID(18) that I didn't bother to setup, the temperature units, it's either c/f but the temperature is always reported in C regardless of this setting the humidifier always reports Celsius, Tuya must use this to do a conversion in their app.

"devices": {
      "xxx": {
        "friendly_name": "AH535 Bedroom",
        "host": "192.168.0.19",
        "local_key": "xxx",
        "protocol_version": "3.4",
        "enable_debug": true,
        "entities": [
          {
            "friendly_name": "Current Humidity",
            "unit_of_measurement": "%",
            "device_class": "humidity",
            "id": 14,
            "platform": "sensor"
          },
          {
            "friendly_name": "Temperature",
            "unit_of_measurement": "C",
            "device_class": "temperature",
            "id": 10,
            "platform": "sensor"
          },
          {
            "friendly_name": "Humidifier On/Off",
            "restore_on_reconnect": false,
            "is_passive_entity": false,
            "id": 1,
            "platform": "switch"
          },
          {
            "friendly_name": "Humidity Set Point",
            "min_value": 30.0,
            "max_value": 70.0,
            "step_size": 5.0,
            "restore_on_reconnect": false,
            "is_passive_entity": false,
            "id": 13,
            "platform": "number"
          },
          {
            "friendly_name": "Fan Speed",
            "select_options": "1;2;3",
            "select_options_friendly": "Low;Medium;High",
            "restore_on_reconnect": false,
            "is_passive_entity": false,
            "id": 101,
            "platform": "select"
          },
          {
            "friendly_name": "Service In",
            "unit_of_measurement": "Days",
            "device_class": "duration",
            "id": 20,
            "platform": "sensor"
          },
          {
            "friendly_name": "Mode",
            "select_options": "natural_evaporation;heating_evaporation;ultrasonic_evaporation",
            "select_options_friendly": "Normal;Sleep;Automatic",
            "restore_on_reconnect": false,
            "is_passive_entity": false,
            "id": 24,
            "platform": "select"
          }
        ],
        "add_entities": false,
        "model": "AH5xx Original Connect",
        "device_id": "xxx",
        "dps_strings": [
          "1 (value: False)",
          "10 (value: 23)",
          "13 (value: 45)",
          "14 (value: 33)",
          "18 (value: f)",
          "20 (value: 12)",
          "24 (value: ultrasonic_evaporation)",
          "101 (value: 3)"
        ],
        "product_key": "xxx"
      }

In terms of requests it'd be nice to add this to the WIki list of known working devices.