The invention provides a
machine type detection circuit, a
machine type detection method, a
machine type detection device and a household appliance. The circuit comprises a main control
chip, a displacement register and a machine
type selection circuit, in the
model selection circuit, a common output end of a scanning
signal input
end group is electrically connected with a control
electrode of a switching tube; the scanning
signal input
end group comprises more than two scanning
signal input ends, each scanning signal input end is electrically connected with the corresponding output end of the displacement register, and the scanning signal input ends are connected or disconnected with the common output end; the main control
chip sends a
serial scanning signal to the displacement register; the displacement register converts the
serial scanning signals into parallel scanning signals with preset digits and sends the parallel scanning signals to the
model selection circuit, and the preset digits are equal to the number of the scanning signal input ends; and the main control
chip acquires a model signal of the model signal output end. According to the invention, IO resources of the chip can be saved, and the accuracy of model detection is improved.