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HA & FoxESSCloud integration

macxq/foxess-ha · vv0.56

HACSCloud polling

Home Assistant & FoxESS integration. Monitor you photovoltaic installation directly from HA ☀️ ⚡️

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
`sensor`	Sensor (temperature, humidity, air quality…)

What people report

Cloud polling of FoxESS inverters; the cloud is often slow with timeouts. Newer systems like Fox EVO are experimental.

Works1
Partly works1

Device	In Home Assistant	In Apple Home	What they said	Source
FoxESS H3 Pro inverter	Works Cloud		PV5/PV6 and dual battery SoC sensors added Saved copy This release adds support for FoxESS H3 Pro inverter Added PV5 and PV6 sensors (power, current, voltage) Added bat_soc1 and bat_soc2 for dual battery systems (note original bat_soc will show as 'unknown' on dual battery systems) Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23.	PR #242 · 2024-04
FoxESS EVO system	Partly works Cloud		Experimental support; device detail call fails on EVO Saved copy The Fox EVO system does not support the device detail (unlike every other Fox inverter - possibly an error?) and the api call fails. The device list is correct and returns much of the information provided by the device detail api call, this modification adds a new config switch `Evo: true` and instead of making the device detail call, it will lookup the information in the device list and use that to fill the missing information. Not all of the device detail information is not provided, however all of the essential items are provided to allow the integration to run correctly (until Fox correct … Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23.	PR #326 · 2025-12

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

Cloud polling

Goes through the maker’s cloud, asking it for updates every so often. Needs the internet and an account.

Details

Installs (analytics)	1,507 (0.21%)
GitHub stars	219
Latest version	v0.56 (2026-10-23)
Set up in the UI	Yes
Maintainers	@macxq, @r-amado, @fozzieuk
License	Apache-2.0

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.

Sources

Documentation: https://github.com/macxq/foxess-ha
Source code: https://github.com/macxq/foxess-ha
Issues: https://github.com/macxq/foxess-ha/issues
HACS: https://hacs.xyz