[gdluck]

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Summary

The deprecation docstring and warning of OWNHeatingCommand.central_status() said that gateways refuse *#4*WHERE*14##. They do not all refuse it: in the firmware oracle six of the twelve emulated gateways forward *#4*#0*14## to the bus and six refuse it. The reason the frame never answers on the plants that reported it is that only a central unit answers it. The old text also pointed to status(where) without saying which address to use. Documentation and warning text only; the frame is unchanged. Note (PDF audit of 2026-10-26): the Legrand WHO 4 document defines the dimension 14 read on zones 1..99 only (p. 18) and, on #0, reads of dimensions 30 and 31 (pp. 57-58); *#4*#0*14## is undefined there, and the central unit's set point comes back inside the *4*110#T*#0## reply to *#4*#0## (p. 56). The docstring now says so.

Refs #77 (the MyHomeServer1 3.1.8 probe), OpenWebNet-HA/MyHOME#629 (F454 timeout). Split out of #137 so that the validator change and this text change can be reviewed and reverted on their own.

Changes

• OWNd/message/heating.py, central_status: the docstring names the six forwarding and the six refusing gateways from the oracle and says the frame goes unanswered without a central unit (live F461 2.0.11 and MyHomeServer1 3.87.13 without one, the Suggestions #77 MyHomeServer1 3.1.8 probe, the OpenWebNet-HA/MyHOME#629 F454 timeout). The warning reads "...which goes unanswered without a central unit; use OWNHeatingCommand.status('#0') (OWNHeatingCommand.status(where)) instead". The existing match=r"use OWNHeatingCommand\.status" test (tests/test_issue_77_firmware_findings.py) still passes.
• CHANGELOG.md: entry under [Unreleased] / Fixed.

State Diagram

stateDiagram-v2
    direction LR
    state "central_status('#0') -> *#4*#0*14## (frame unchanged)" as Call
    state "Forwarded to the bus (nack/out): F453, F453AV, F460, F461, MH200N, MyHomeServer1" as Fwd
    state "Refused by the gateway (nack/silent): F450, F454, F459, H4684, MH200, MH202" as Ref
    state "Unanswered without a central unit (live F461 2.0.11, MyHomeServer1 3.87.13); answered only by a 3550 / 4695 central unit" as Out
    [*] --> Call
    Call --> Fwd : oracle trace-corpus
    Call --> Ref : oracle trace-corpus
    Fwd --> Out
    Ref --> Out

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Where are the traces

Subsystem	Capture	Plant	Frames verified by this PR
WHO 4 dimension 14 on the central-unit address	trace PR: OpenWebNet-HA/MyHOME#799 (open), f461_live_2026-10-23 run 1 (run1_oracle_replay_readonly)	BTicino F461 2.0.11, no central unit	*#4*#0*14## NACK after the bus timeout (about 2.1 s): forwarded, unanswered
same	trace PR: OpenWebNet-HA/MyHOME#799 (open), myhomeserver1_live_2026-10-24 run 2 (run2_reads_thermo_sound_alarm_lights)	MyHomeServer1 3.87.13, no 3550 / 4695 central unit	*#4*#0## and *#4*#0*14## NACK after ~4.2 s (forwarded, unanswered, one OWNd retry)
earlier reports	#77 (MyHomeServer1 3.1.8 gateway probe: NACK), OpenWebNet-HA/MyHOME#629 (F454: dimension 14 timed out while *#4*#0## answered in 0.13 s)	MyHomeServer1 3.1.8; F454	*#4*#0*14##

What does the Oracle say

Suite trace-corpus, results/<P>/<V>/oracle/full/trace-corpus.tsv, input *#4*#0*14##:

Gateway	Reply / verdict	Bus output
F453 010100, F453AV 030014, MH200N 010108, MyHomeServer1 028206	nack / out	$049900300E (request forwarded; no central unit on the emulated bus)
F460 020012, F461 020011	nack / out	$0049900300E (same request, the 3-digit RPMsg form of these two images)
F450 020010, F454 020051, F459 020105, H4684 020054, MH200 020102, MH202 010024	nack / silent	none

Testing

• tests/test_who4_central_status_text.py (new, 2 cases): test_central_status_deprecation_names_the_real_reason (docstring no longer says "which gateways refuse", names trace-corpus and the F461; the warning is a DeprecationWarning that says "unanswered without a central unit" and status('#0'); the frame is still *#4*#0*14##), test_central_status_frame_and_default_are_unchanged (#0 default, #0#1).
• Fail before / pass after: on master 1 fails (the old text), 1 passes; on this branch both pass.
• Full suite: 1909 passed, 1 skipped (master: 1907 passed, 1 skipped); 100 % statement coverage, mypy clean, ruff clean, scripts/sync_documentation.py --check and scripts/verify_library_standards.py pass.

Live retest (2026-10-24)

Not exercised live: documentation and warning text only; the frame it describes is unchanged (its live outcome is in the traces table).

Companion

None. Split from #137 (set_central_mode validator).

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[gdluck]

Rebased on master 87cafc3 (after #136): the CHANGELOG [Unreleased] entry and the heating.py regex block now sit beside the merged dimension-22 guard; content unchanged, suite and 100 % coverage green.

[GreenGrassBlueOcean]

Tested 8194705 merged with current master (050dc1d): auto-merges cleanly, 2107 passed (master: 2105 passed), ruff, mypy OWNd tests/typing, scripts/verify_library_standards.py, scripts/sync_documentation.py --check, and tools/golden/validate_corpus.py (166 frames) all pass, as do the MyHOME WHO 4 / live-trace suites.

Stepping back: is there a concrete benefit to doing this?

Before iterating on the wording, do you see a concrete benefit to merging this PR? Personally I do not see it:

• OWNHeatingCommand.central_status() has zero callers in MyHOME and zero callers in OWNd. It wasn't in OWNd 0.x either — it was introduced during the 2.0.0 beta (0d14322) and deprecated shortly after in #77.
• Runtime behavior, signature, wire frame (*#4*WHERE*14##), and DeprecationWarning category are completely unchanged.
• On master, the existing warning already gives any hypothetical caller the actionable takeaway: do not use central_status(), use status(where) (status("#0")) instead. Adding a 17-line SKU breakdown on a dead helper, a dedicated 39-line test file asserting prose substrings in __doc__, and a CHANGELOG.md Fixed entry adds maintenance and rebase noise without helping users. Protocol details on $049900300E vs $04990030C0 fit much better in OpenWebNet-Encyclopedia / own-firmware-oracle (or we can simply remove central_status() before 2.0.0 final).

Unless there is a concrete use case I am missing, I would prefer to close this PR and leave master as-is.

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Audit of the current diff (if there is a reason to keep it)

If there is a concrete reason to keep a text update here, several claims in the current diff contradict the captures or go beyond what is verified:

1. "Only a central unit answers it" / "unanswered without a central unit" is contradicted by MyHOME#629 and unverified on forwarding gateways (OWNd/message/heating.py, CHANGELOG.md, PR summary & state diagram):

   • OpenWebNet-HA/MyHOME#629 had a central unit, and *#4*#0*14## did not time out there. That F454 (1.0.34) plant had a live 99-zone central unit at #0 — which is why *#4*#0## answered in 0.134 s (*4*202*#0##, *4*21*#0##, *4*22*#0##, *4*24*#0##). On that same plant, *#4*#0*14## failed with a fast local NACK in 0.098 s (retry 0.513 s), matching the oracle's F454 020051 nack/silent verdict (test_f454_rejects_dim14_central_status_fast). The 8.02 s timeout in MyHOME#629 was *#4*#0#1## (probing a non-existent 4-zone unit), not *#4*#0*14##.
   • The new DeprecationWarning misleads callers who do have a central unit. "builds *#4*WHERE*14##, which goes unanswered without a central unit" implies the frame works when a central unit is present, whereas on the six nack/silent gateways (F450, F454, F459, H4684, MH200, MH202) it is dropped locally even with a #0 central unit on the bus (MyHOME#629).
   • No source establishes that a 3550 or 4695 answers *#4*#0*14## even when forwarded. The docstring states "Forwarded or not, only a central unit answers it" and the state diagram states "answered only by a 3550 / 4695 central unit". Neither own-firmware-oracle (the 3550 030020 M16C image is static-only with no QEMU target, and no 4695 image exists), nor any live capture (f461_live_2026-10-23 and myhomeserver1_live_2026-10-24 had no central unit), nor libqtdevices / BtExperience, nor the WHO 4 specification establishes that a 3550 or 4695 ever answers $049900300E / $0049900300E (which is just the per-zone Dimension 14 read template $0499<ZZ>300E with <ZZ>=00 after # is stripped). As 8194705 notes, *#4*#0*14## is undefined in the WHO 4 document — that (plus 6 local refusals and 0 observed replies anywhere) is the proven reason, and whether a 3550 / 4695 behind a forwarding gateway would answer $049900300E is unverified.

2. *4*110#T*#0## is only returned when the central unit is in manual heating mode (OWNd/message/heating.py, PR summary):

   • 8194705 says "and the central unit's set point comes back inside the *4*110#T*#0## reply to *#4*#0## (p. 56)."
   • 110#T is manual heating (210#T is manual conditioning); p. 56's flow example happens to show manual heating. When #0 is in protection/off (*4*202*#0##, as in MyHOME#629), weekly program (1101..1103 / 2101..2103), scenario (1201..1216 / 2201..2216), or holiday (115#P / 13DDD#P), *#4*#0## returns that mode frame plus status flags (20..24, 30..31) and no *4*110#T*#0## / setpoint.

3. Drift with tests/test_issue_77_firmware_findings.py, CHANGELOG.md, and #0#N guidance:

   • test_central_status_is_deprecated_and_unchanged in tests/test_issue_77_firmware_findings.py still carries the old """Capture + Gateway: gateways refuse ``*#4*#0*14##``...""" docstring that tests/test_who4_central_status_text.py asserts is removed. Rather than adding a second test file that pins prose substrings ("trace-corpus", "F461") in __doc__, test_issue_77_firmware_findings.py should be updated in place, and CHANGELOG.md shouldn't carry a ### Fixed entry when no runtime behavior changed (note also that 8194705 left CHANGELOG.md on the commit-1 wording).
   • *#4*#0## is verified in both trace-corpus (OUT (Bus) on all 12 gateways) and MyHOME#629, whereas *#4*#0#1## has not been replayed in the oracle and MyHOME skips #0#1 in status polling — avoid implying status('#0#1') is oracle/capture-verified.

4. Housekeeping:

   • Commit 8194705 has author/committer Mac Book <macbook@Macs-MacBook-Pro.local> (--reset-author / squash on rebase).
   • PR description still lists OpenWebNet-HA/MyHOME#799 (open) twice (merged 2026-10-24), describes MyHOME#629 as a dimension-14 timeout, and quotes 1909 passed, 1 skipped (master: 1907 passed, 1 skipped) (2107 / 2105 on 050dc1d).

[gdluck]

Agreed, there is no concrete benefit: central_status() has no caller and its warning on master already says what matters. Closing this PR and leaving master as it is; removing the helper before 2.0.0 final is your call.

Your audit stands, and two of its corrections apply beyond this PR, so for the record: MyHOME#629 had a live 99-zone central unit and *#4*#0*14## failed there with a fast local NACK (0.098 s), the 8 s timeout was *#4*#0#1##; "only a central unit answers it" was never established by any source (no 3550 / 4695 image or capture answers $049900300E); *4*110#T*#0## is the manual-heating reply only. The protocol detail belongs in the Encyclopedia / oracle, as you say. The commit author on 8194705 (Mac Book <macbook@…local>) came from a scratch checkout without a git identity; it is fixed for every future commit, and the other open drafts that carry it will be re-authored.