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Solarfocus

LavermanJJ/home-assistant-solarfocus · v7.0.1

HACSLocal polling

🏡 Solarfocus eco manager touch integration for Home Assistant

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.

EntityShows up asNote
switchSwitch or outlet
climateThermostat
binary_sensorSensor (motion, contact, leak, smoke…)
sensorSensor (temperature, humidity, air quality…)
water_heaterWater heater (as a thermostat)
buttonButton (as a switch)
selectMode picker (as switches)

How it connects

Local polling

Talks to the device on your network, asking it for updates every so often.

Details

Installs (analytics)84 (0.01%)
GitHub stars27
Latest version7.0.1 (2026-10-11)
Set up in the UIYes
Maintainers@lavermanjj
LicenseApache-2.0

Limitations from the README

  • Polling only. Changes made on the display of the heating system show up in Home Assistant
  • No discovery. The ecomanager-touch announces itself over no protocol Home
  • No authentication. Modbus TCP has none. Anyone with access to the network segment of the
  • Register coverage follows the specification of the selected version. Features the
  • Entity ids added before and after 6.0.0 look different. Entities in the registry keep the
  • The device half of an entity id follows the language of the installation. A German
  • An entry renamed twice before 6.0.0 can need one rename back. Entities used to be
  • Writes can be ignored by the controller. The photovoltaic registers only take effect once
  • Cooling turns off the dew point monitoring of the controller. See the warning under

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.