EPH Controls
ephember
The EPH Controls integration lets you control EPH Controls thermostats. The module only works if you have a Wi-Fi gateway to control your EPH system and an account on the EMBER app.
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
EPH Ember thermostats use a cloud API that broke in 2021.
- Not working1
| Device | In Home Assistant | In Apple Home | What they said | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPH Ember thermostat | Not working Cloud | Cannot connect after cloud API changeSaved copyThe problem Hello, The EPH Ember integration is no longer working. I am receiving the error "Cannot connect to EphEmber" in the logs. The connection to the endpoint "eu-https.topband-cloud.com" seems to be OK on my machine and other machines. Also the API seems to work OK, as I have tested that with POSTMAN: POST https://eu-https.topband-cloud.com/ember-back/appLogin/login 200 85 ms POST /ember-back/appLogin/login HTTP/1.1 Accept: application/json Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8 User-Agent: PostmanRuntime/7.26.10 Postman-Token: cb1bfed9-bf8b-4fc0-8216-d69912078761 Host: … Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23. | Issue #46223 · 2021-02 |
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 polling
Talks to the device on your network, asking it for updates every so often.
Details
| Installs (analytics) | 35 |
|---|---|
| Quality scale | Legacy |
| Added in | Home Assistant 0.57 |
| Set up in the UI | No, YAML |
| Maintainers | @ttroy50, @roberty99 |
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.
