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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 home goods. | '''{{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== | ==Consumer-impact summary== | ||
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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]]. | 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'')=== | ===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}}. | 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}}</ref> | 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'')=== | ===Example incident two (''date'')=== | ||