In Apple Home through HomeKit Bridge
What HomeKit Bridge makes of each kind of entity this integration creates, read from its source code. A device only gets the ones that apply to it.
| Entity | Shows up as | Note |
|---|---|---|
fan | Fan |
What people report
Helty Flow ventilation units are supported through the Helty cloud (a separate local-protocol integration exists).
- Works1
| Device | In Home Assistant | In Apple Home | What they said | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Helty Flow ventilation unit | Works Cloud | Fan platform via Helty Cloud; reauth flow added 2026.10Saved copyProposed change Adds `helty_cloud`, a new integration for Helty Flow ventilation units, with the fan platform. Home Assistant already has `helty`, which speaks the local TCP protocol of the older control panels. The panels Helty ships now expose no listening port at all: they hold an outbound connection to the manufacturer's cloud, and that is the only way to reach them. So this is the same brand and the same appliance, but a different transport, different credential Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23. | PR #181364 · 2026-09 |
Gathered from GitHub issues, pull requests, discussions and docs, and from r/homeassistant. These are individual reports, so check the linked thread and the date before you buy.
How it connects
Cloud polling
Goes through the maker’s cloud, asking it for updates every so often. Needs the internet and an account.
Details
| Quality scale | Bronze |
|---|---|
| Set up in the UI | Yes |
| Maintainers | @ebaschiera |
In ReReHome
Whatever HomeKit Bridge shares reaches Apple Home as normal HomeKit accessories behind your Home Assistant bridge, so ReReHome shows and controls them like any other.
Bridges get their own settings page listing the accessories behind them.
