ZhongHong
zhong_hong
The ZhongHong integration lets you control the air conditioners behind a ZhongHong HVAC gateway from 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.
| Entity | Shows up as | Note |
|---|---|---|
climate | Thermostat |
What people report
ZhongHong HVAC controller gateway works locally with limitations; gateway allows only one client.
- Partly works1
- Not working1
| Device | In Home Assistant | In Apple Home | What they said | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZhongHong HVAC controller | Partly works Local | One client at a time; five fan speeds offered regardless of unitSaved copyDescription: This is a platform for using a HVAC Controller product from Zhong hong tech which sells in China. It can control a bunch of AC brand like Daikin, Hitachi, Meidi, Gree, Haier, Toshiba and Mitsubishi. You can find the product selling page on taobao.com. Related issue (if applicable): fixes # Pull request in home-assistant.github.io with documentation (if applicable): home-assistant/home-assistant.github.io#5402 ## Examp Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23. | PR #14552 · 2018-05 | |
| ZhongHong HVAC hub | Not working | Reported not working in 2021; no fix evidenceSaved copyThe problem Zhong hong HVAC Contorller is not working with home assistant ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? core-2021.12.5 ### What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core? _No response_ ### What type of installation are you running? Home Assistant Container ### Integration causing the issue zhong_hong ### Link to integration documentation on our website https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zhong_hong ### Example YAML snippet [code] ### Anything in the logs that might be useful for us? [code] ### Additional information _No response_ Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23. | Issue #62772 · 2021-12 |
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
Local push
Talks to the device on your network, and the device tells Home Assistant the moment something changes.
Details
| Installs (analytics) | 5 |
|---|---|
| Quality scale | Legacy |
| Added in | Home Assistant 0.72 |
| Set up in the UI | Yes |
| Maintainers | @crhan |
Limitations from the docs
- Only one program can talk to the gateway at a time. While Home Assistant is connected, the gateway refuses everything else, so both Home Assistant and a phone app cannot be connected to it.
- The indoor units are found once, when the integration is set up. An indoor unit added to the system afterwards does not appear on its own; reload the integration from Settings > Devices & services to pick it up.
- All five fan speeds are offered on every entity. Many air conditioners only have three, and there is no way to know which ones it has, so a unit ignores a speed it does not have and stays on the one it was running at.
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.
