Compared to NetHome Plus

Compared to NetHome Plus

NetHome Plus talks to your air conditioner by going out to the internet, through Midea's cloud, and back down to a unit that is in the same room as you. Breeze talks to a server on your own network, which talks to the unit. That one difference is most of the list.

• It works when the internet does not. Router still up? So is your AC.
• No account. No sign-up, no e-mail, no password to share around the household — pairing is a one-time code an admin approves on the LAN, and each phone gets its own credential that can be revoked on its own.
• Two permissions, total: internet and vibrate. No location, no contacts, no ads, no analytics, no upsell, nothing to opt out of.
• It is simpler. One unit per screen, everything on it, swipe for the next one.
• It reacts immediately — every control is optimistic with haptic feedback, and the server pushes state over SSE, so the screen is right without waiting on a poll or a cloud round-trip.
• Control without opening it at all: home-screen widgets and an Android Auto screen that is one big power button.
• Schedules that do not need your phone. Favourites, schedules and temperature curves live on the server and fire with the phone off.
• It is quiet. Beep is off unless you turn it on — set the temperature at 3 a.m. without a chirp.
• Material You, light/dark, °C/°F, and a real diagnostics screen when something misbehaves.

What you give up

• It needs a Breeze Core server on your network — a Pi, NAS or old laptop is plenty, but somebody has to run it.
• Android only. Other platforms get the server's web panel. There is an iOS plan, not an iOS app.
• Away from home you need a VPN, or a reverse proxy you have secured — nothing is exposed to the internet for you.
• Pairing takes an admin on the LAN. That is the point, and it is still a step the cloud app does not have.
• If the server is down, the app can do nothing. Your remote still can.
• The units must reach Wi-Fi through the vendor app once, first — Breeze cannot onboard a factory-fresh unit.