Escea
escea
The Escea integration allows monitoring and control of local Escea fireplaces. These fireplaces are manufactured in New Zealand and sold throughout Australia and New Zealand.
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
Local UDP-broadcast discovery fails on hosts with multiple network adapters; fix agreed.
- Partly works1
| Device | In Home Assistant | In Apple Home | What they said | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Escea fireplace | Partly works Local | Discovery fails with multiple network interfaces; static route workaroundSaved copyThe problem I'm unable to add an Escea fireplace to my Home Assistant and after some debugging and code diving believe it is becasue my Home Assistant has 2 ethernet interfaces. The default route is through one interface while the Escea fireplace is on the subnet of the second interface. The Escea intergration doesn't allow specifying the IP address of the fireplace, rather depends on discovery by making a UDP broadcast to 255.255.255.255. Unfortunately, in a scenario with multiple network interfaces, messages to this address will be routed to the default gateway which is NOT the interface my … Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23. | Issue #82471 · 2022-11 |
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.
Found automatically over
- HomeKit pairing
Devices that also speak HomeKit
- Escea
These can pair with Apple Home directly, without Home Assistant.
Details
| Installs (analytics) | 59 (0.01%) |
|---|---|
| Added in | Home Assistant 2022.9 |
| Set up in the UI | Yes |
| Maintainers | @lazdavila |
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.
