Honeywell String Lights
honeywell_string_lights
The Honeywell String Lights integration lets you control a Honeywell radio frequency (RF) remote-controlled string light set 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 |
|---|---|---|
light | Light |
What people report
The evidence covers the Novy cooker hood fan, controlled one-way over 433.92 MHz.
- Works1
| Device | In Home Assistant | In Apple Home | What they said | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Novy Cooker Hood | Works | Fan entity added alongside light; one-way 433.92 MHz link, no feedbackSaved copyProposed change Adds a `fan` entity to the Novy Cooker Hood integration, controlling the hood motor over the same 433.92 MHz OOK link as the existing light entity. The protocol is one-way (no feedback), and pressing the remote's `+` / `-` only steps the speed by one. To support `set_percentage` reliably the entity uses a calibration model: each speed change first sends 4 `minus` presses to guarantee the hood is at level 0, then sends N `plus` presses to climb to the target level (1-4 mapped to 25/50/75/100%). This always lands at the requested speed regardless of prior state, at the cost of a … Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23. | PR #169380 · 2026-04 |
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
Assumed state
Sends commands but can’t read the device’s state back, so Home Assistant assumes it worked.
Details
| Installs (analytics) | 2 |
|---|---|
| Quality scale | Bronze |
| Added in | Home Assistant 2026.5 |
| Set up in the UI | Yes |
| Maintainers | @balloob |
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://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/honeywell_string_lights/
- Source code: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/tree/dev/homeassistant/components/honeywell_string_lights
- Issues: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3A%22integration%3A+honeywell_string_lights%22
