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|Industry=Home appliances

|Logo=GREE Electric logo.svg

|Type=Private

|Website=https://gree.com

~~|Founded=1991~~|Description=Chinese home appliances ~~manufacturer headquartered in Zhuhai, Guangdong province. It is the world's largest residential air-conditioner~~ manufacturer.}}

|Description=GREE Electric is a Chinese home appliances manufacturer.

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'''GREE Electric''', branded as '''GREE''', is a Chinese home appliances manufacturer headquartered in Zhuhai, Guangdong province. It is the world's largest residential air-conditioner manufacturer. The company offers two types of air conditioners: household air conditioners and commercial air conditioners. The company also produces electric fans, water dispensers, heaters, rice cookers, air purifiers, water kettles, humidifiers and induction cookers, among other ~~products~~.

'''{{wplink|GREE Electric}}''', branded as '''GREE''', is a Chinese home appliances manufacturer headquartered in Zhuhai, Guangdong province. It is the world's largest residential air-conditioner manufacturer. The company offers two types of air conditioners: household air conditioners and commercial air conditioners. The company also produces electric fans, water dispensers, heaters, rice cookers, air purifiers, water kettles, humidifiers and induction cookers, among other home goods.

==Consumer-impact summary==

~~GREE Devices with Wi~~-~~Fi connection are heavily dependent on their cloud connection, and refuse to function properly with third~~-~~party local network integrations like Home Assistant.~~

By blocking all internet traffic from the device, it automatically disconnects from the network within 30 seconds and breaks all integrations for next 5 minutes, after which the loop begins again. This is by design, making it hard to use local network control without the cloud. We can also conclude that the device's local access will also become unusable at some point, when the servers are shut down.

==Incidents==

Proposed solution for this problem is to host a [https://codeberg.org/joserebelo/gree-dummy-tls-server dummy server] and pointing all gree.com DNS records towards the dummy server, which fools the unit to think it has active cloud connection and stop it from disconnecting. However, with newer firmware versions, GREE has switched its communication, rendering dummy server as-it-is currently, useless.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-08-25 |title=Github issue: Firmware 1.31: Gree Dummy TLS Server no longer working. New MQTT protocol? #3 |url=https://codeberg.org/joserebelo/gree-dummy-tls-server/issues/3}}</ref>

This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]].

===Cloud dependance on WiFi featured devices (''date'')===

GREE Devices with Wi-Fi connection are heavily dependent on their cloud connection, and refuse to function properly with third-party local network integrations like Home Assistant

By blocking all internet traffic from the device, it automatically disconnects from the network within 30 seconds and breaks all integrations for next 5 minutes, after which the loop begins again{{Citation needed}}.

Proposed solution for this problem is to host a [https://codeberg.org/joserebelo/gree-dummy-tls-server dummy server] and pointing all gree.com DNS records towards the dummy server, which fools the unit to think it has active cloud connection and stop it from disconnecting{{Citation needed}}. However, with newer firmware versions, GREE has switched its communication, rendering dummy server as-it-is currently, useless.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-08-25 |title=Github issue: Firmware 1.31: Gree Dummy TLS Server no longer working. New MQTT protocol? #3 |url=https://codeberg.org/joserebelo/gree-dummy-tls-server/issues/3 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260302171958/https://codeberg.org/joserebelo/gree-dummy-tls-server/issues/3 |archive-date=2026-03-02}}</ref>

===Example incident two (''date'')===

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==Products==

* GREE Mini series

*GREE Mini series

* GREE Vireo series

*GREE Vireo series

==See also==

~~{{Ph-C-SA}}~~

*[[Internet of things]]

==References==

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 |Industry=Home appliances
+|Logo=GREE Electric logo.svg
 |Type=Private
 |Website=https://gree.com
-|Founded=1991|Description=Chinese home appliances manufacturer headquartered in Zhuhai, Guangdong province. It is the world's largest residential air-conditioner manufacturer.}}
+|Description=GREE Electric is a Chinese home appliances manufacturer.
+|Founded=1991}}
-'''GREE Electric''', branded as '''GREE''', is a Chinese home appliances manufacturer headquartered in Zhuhai, Guangdong province. It is the world's largest residential air-conditioner manufacturer. The company offers two types of air conditioners: household air conditioners and commercial air conditioners. The company also produces electric fans, water dispensers, heaters, rice cookers, air purifiers, water kettles, humidifiers and induction cookers, among other products.
+'''{{wplink|GREE Electric}}''', branded as '''GREE''', is a Chinese home appliances manufacturer headquartered in Zhuhai, Guangdong province. It is the world's largest residential air-conditioner manufacturer. The company offers two types of air conditioners: household air conditioners and commercial air conditioners. The company also produces electric fans, water dispensers, heaters, rice cookers, air purifiers, water kettles, humidifiers and induction cookers, among other home goods.
 ==Consumer-impact summary==
-GREE Devices with Wi-Fi connection are heavily dependent on their cloud connection, and refuse to function properly with third-party local network integrations like Home Assistant.
+{{Ph-C-CIS}}
-By blocking all internet traffic from the device, it automatically disconnects from the network within 30 seconds and breaks all integrations for next 5 minutes, after which the loop begins again. This is by design, making it hard to use local network control without the cloud. We can also conclude that the device's local access will also become unusable at some point, when the servers are shut down.
+==Incidents==
+{{Ph-C-Inc}}
-Proposed solution for this problem is to host a [https://codeberg.org/joserebelo/gree-dummy-tls-server dummy server] and pointing all gree.com DNS records towards the dummy server, which fools the unit to think it has active cloud connection and stop it from disconnecting. However, with newer firmware versions, GREE has switched its communication, rendering dummy server as-it-is currently, useless.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-08-25 |title=Github issue:  Firmware 1.31: Gree Dummy TLS Server no longer working. New MQTT protocol? #3 |url=https://codeberg.org/joserebelo/gree-dummy-tls-server/issues/3}}</ref>
+This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]].
+===Cloud dependance on WiFi featured devices (''date'')===
+GREE Devices with Wi-Fi connection are heavily dependent on their cloud connection, and refuse to function properly with third-party local network integrations like Home Assistant
+By blocking all internet traffic from the device, it automatically disconnects from the network within 30 seconds and breaks all integrations for next 5 minutes, after which the loop begins again{{Citation needed}}.
+Proposed solution for this problem is to host a [https://codeberg.org/joserebelo/gree-dummy-tls-server dummy server] and pointing all gree.com DNS records towards the dummy server, which fools the unit to think it has active cloud connection and stop it from disconnecting{{Citation needed}}. However, with newer firmware versions, GREE has switched its communication, rendering dummy server as-it-is currently, useless.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-08-25 |title=Github issue:  Firmware 1.31: Gree Dummy TLS Server no longer working. New MQTT protocol? #3 |url=https://codeberg.org/joserebelo/gree-dummy-tls-server/issues/3 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260302171958/https://codeberg.org/joserebelo/gree-dummy-tls-server/issues/3 |archive-date=2026-03-02}}</ref>
+===Example incident two (''date'')===
+...
 ==Products==
-* GREE Mini series
+*GREE Mini series
-* GREE Vireo series
+*GREE Vireo series
 ==See also==
-{{Ph-C-SA}}
+*[[Internet of things]]
 ==References==