EPH Controls Integration

Third party integrations
1

I have recently had a new gas boiler installed which is using a Ember wireless programmer to control 2 zones. There is an app which I can use to check and set the system. This is manufactured by EPH Controls. As you might imagine, I wanted to integrate this into Home Assistant and noticed an integration which I thought might provide this capability, EPH Controls. I did notice that it didn’t seem to be a popular integration but persevered. Following the installation instructions, I do get an instance of the integration in HA, but dont see any devices or entities. Any attempt to add any leads to HA saying:-

This integration cannot be added from the UI

You can add this integration by adding it to your ‘configuration.yaml’. See the documentation for more information.

Has anyone else seen this or have an idea if this can be used? Or is it a dead integration and should be avoided? If so is there any other integration that might operate with the system?

Any thoughts/guidance would be greatly appreciated.

2

My boiler engineer is suggesting the same solution to me with EPH Controls, and after some research I also found this HACS integration. Looks like it’s not being used much, so I’d also value any input if anyone is currently using it.

3

It seems like this is a nice straight forward system, and it is clearly almost there, I am sure someone who understands the way these systems integrate could work it out. I am surprised there someone from Ember hasn’t engaged with the HA community and used this to showcase their system.

4

I have written to the EPH Control developers and unfortunately they have confirmed that the integration was posted by an independent developer who reverse engineered version 1 of their API. They have since updated this to V2 and are keeping their API private which is why the integration no longer works.

Disappointing situation really.

Carlos