GREE Electric

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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.

GREE Electric

Basic information
Founded
Legal Structure	Private
Industry	Home appliances
Also known as
Official website	https://gree.com

Consumer-impact summary

Overview of concerns that arise from the conduct towards users of the product (if applicable):

• User Freedom
• User Privacy
• Business Model
• Market Control

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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 GREE Electric 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 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.

Example incident two (date)

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Products

• GREE Mini series
• GREE Vireo series

See also

• Internet of things