By incident I found out yesterday that the Miele@mobile app was updated in Google Play back in May. For some reason Pushbullet didn’t notify me, and I’m not allowed to download the app from Google Play myself, since I’m resided in Denmark and Miele@home is not supported here. Strangely, the only visible change I found in this update since 2.01 was a complete Danish translation. Nice – hopefully this means that Miele@home support in Denmark is not too far away. Update, September 6th 2016: I just found out that the geo-restriction in Google Play is also gone, or at least expanded to include Denmark. It’s now also possible to select Miele Denmark as origin for the Miele user account.

Today’s small rant:

• Why this geoblocking? I’m allowed within EU to buy all the hardware in Germany, but the only app that exists for the system, I’m not allowed to use. With my very expensive appliances and Miele@home gateway/modules I might add. Luckily in Android there are ways to get the app anyway, but my girlfriend can’t download the app for iPhone and use the system at all.
• Why not open up the new JSON-RPC API, so better 3rd party apps could be written, that didn’t have to depend only on the old broken Homebus protocol? This would make the system more useful since new ways to use the sytem would arise.