I’m currently developing this binding and will be looking for beta testers soon. This Wi-Fi module is used in Majestic, Heat & Glo, Heatilator, Quadra-Fire, Vermont Castings, Monessen and SimpliFire fireplaces with the IFT-ECM and IFT-ACM modules. The IFT-WFM Wi-Fi module will work along side of the IFT-RFM and corresponding IFT-RC400 touchscreen remote control.
Let me know if you are interested in beta testing. Thanks.
I have an intellifire Heat & Glo fireplace with the wifi module installed. I would be interested in testing this.
I played around with the Python stuff that a person developed for Home Assistant and was able to get that connected to the fireplace, but I didn’t get it incorporated into my openHAB instance.
A bit more information would be helpfull.
What does this python stuff do? How does it integrate into HA?
It allows you to connect to the fireplace and then control the flame, fan speed and light. It gets an api key from the intellifire cloud, but then it can control it locally without using the cloud connection. I’m including a couple of links that give information about it. When I first looked at it, I think there was some question about whether the api key needed to be refreshed occasionally. I don’t know how or if this was resolved.
On first sight, the python script was developed to work with HA and cannot be integrated into openHAB directly.
Sorry to say but I don‘t see a quick solution.
That’s true. I thought the person who started this thread about creating an OH Binding for the intellifire products might find it useful.
Sorry, did not read the first post properly. So yes, might be helpfull then.
Great. I have a working beta version almost ready to share. My IDE just crashed. Once that I have that rebuilt and back online, I will share a JAR file for a test drive.
Sorry for the delay. Here is the initial beta release.
I set up a test OH system using OH 4.3 on an RPI 3. I dropped the intellifire jar file into my add-ons directory. After a reboot, the intellifire binding showed up and I created the intellifire bridge thing using. It then found 4 additional Intellifire things, the fan, the fireplace, the light and the remote. I would think the fan and the light would be channels in the fireplace, but that wasn’t the case.
I created items for all of the available channels. The fan and light things had one channel each. The fireplace and remote each had several channels.
Once everything was created, I was able start and stop the flame, adjust the flame height, fan speed, and light intensity. The “error” text string also shows the same messages I see in the IOS app. When first started, it gives the 3 minute fan delay message. It also gives a message if the fireplace is offline.
The thing properties list the IP address and the API Key, among other things. I was hoping that the binding would use local communication once it had the API key, but it didn’t. I tested it by disconnecting my router from the internet. With the internet disconnected, the things lost the fireplace IP address and the API key, even though it was still connected locally which verified by pinging the fireplace from my laptop. When I reconnected the router to the internet, the things eventually recovered the IP address and API key. I checked the API key to see if it had changed, but it remained the same.
Also, with the internet disconnected, the things status showed them as online. When I tried to turn on the flame, the fireplace thing status would switch to offline, and then back to online when the start switch returned to the off position.
I’ve been trying out the Fireplace binding again. I also created a custom widget for it. The widget acts a little weird when setting some the light or flame levels because of the timing between when the command gets sent and when the poll is taken to check the settings. Other than that it seems ok. With the fireplace connected to OH, now I can write rules for other items, for instance, I can turn the ceiling fan on a few minutes after the fireplace fan comes on, and turn it off a few minutes after the fireplace goes off.
I’m including the widget below. Once again, thanks to Justin G and rikoshak for all of their widget tutorials. I did create some custom icons for the flame and fan feedback that I can share if I can find a way to do it.
uid: Fire_Place_Widget_2
tags: []
props:
parameters:
- description: Title
label: Title
name: titleProp
required: false
type: TEXT
- context: item
description: Switch that indicates its hot
label: Hot Switch
name: hotSwitch
required: false
type: TEXT
- context: item
description: Room Temperature
label: Room Temp
name: roomTemp
required: false
type: TEXT
- context: item
description: Flame On / OFF switch
label: Flame On/Off
name: flameSwitch
required: false
type: TEXT
- context: item
description: Flame Height
label: Flame Height
name: flameHeight
required: false
type: TEXT
- context: item
description: Light On / Off switch
label: Light On/Off
name: lightSwitch
required: false
type: TEXT
- context: item
description: Light Level
label: Light Level
name: lightLevel
required: false
type: TEXT
- context: item
description: Fireplace Fan
label: Fan Speed
name: fanSpeed
required: false
type: TEXT
- context: item
description: Timer Switch
label: Timer Switch
name: timerOn
required: false
type: TEXT
- context: item
description: Timer Minutes
label: Timer Minutes
name: timerMinutes
required: false
type: TEXT
- default: "1"
label: Timer Step Number Defaults to 1
name: timerStep
required: false
type: DECIMAL
- context: item
description: Thermostat On Off
label: Thermostat Switch
name: thermostatSwitch
required: false
type: TEXT
- context: item
description: Temperature
label: Temperature
name: tempSet
required: false
type: TEXT
parameterGroups: []
timestamp: Feb 22, 2026, 2:38:30 PM
component: f7-card
config: {}
slots:
header:
- component: f7-row
config:
style:
width: 100%
slots:
default:
- component: f7-block
config:
style:
margin-top: 0px
text-align: left
width: 16%
slots:
default:
- component: oh-icon
config:
icon: '=(@props.hotSwitch == "ON") ? "oh:fire-on" : "oh:fire-off"'
height: 25px
style:
margin-left: 4px
- component: Label
config:
text: Hot
style:
font-size: 20px
color: '=(@props.hotSwitch == "ON") ? "red" : "lightgray" '
- component: Label
config:
text: =props.titleProp
style:
font-size: 20px
margin-right: 0px
text-align: center
width: 62%
- component: f7-block
config:
style:
text-align: center
font-size: 15px
width: 22%
slots:
default:
- component: Label
config:
text: Room
- component: Content
config:
text: =@props.roomTemp
default:
- component: oh-list
config:
mediaList: true
slots:
default:
- component: oh-list-item
config:
action: toggle
actionItem: =props.flameSwitch
actionCommand: ON
actionCommandAlt: OFF
icon: "=(@props.flameSwitch == 'ON') ? 'oh:switch-on' : 'oh:switch-off'"
iconUseState: true
title: "=(@props.flameSwitch == 'ON') ? 'Flame ON' : 'Flame OFF'"
noChevron: true
- component: oh-list-item
config:
title: Flame Height
icon: "={ '0': 'oh:myfire-off', '20': 'oh:myfire-20', '40': 'oh:myfire-40', '60': 'oh:myfire-60', '80' : 'oh:myfire-80', '100' : 'oh:myfire-100' }[@props.flameHeight] || 'oh:myfire-off'"
actionItem: =props.flameHeight
action: options
actionOptions: 0=Off,20=1,40=2,60=3,80=4,100=5
style:
margin-top: 10px
slots:
after:
- component: f7-row
slots:
default:
- component: oh-icon
config:
icon: oh:fire-off
width: 30px
visible: =(!@props.flameHeight || @props.flameHeight == '0')
- component: oh-repeater
config:
for: iconNum
sourceType: range
rangeStart: 1
rangeStop: =Math.floor(@props.flameHeight/20)
fragment: true
filter: "@props.flameHeight > 0"
slots:
default:
- component: f7-col
config:
class:
- text-align-center
slots:
default:
- component: oh-icon
config:
icon: oh:fire-on
width: 30px
- component: oh-list-item
config:
icon: "={ '0': 'oh:light-off', '33': 'oh:light-30', '66': 'oh:light-60', '67':
'oh:light-60', '99': 'oh:light-on' }[@props.lightLevel] ||
'oh:light-off'"
iconUseState: true
title: Light
actionItem: =props.lightLevel
action: options
actionOptions: 0=Off,33=Low,66=Medium,99=High
slots:
after:
- component: Label
config:
text: =({0:'Off',33:'Low',66:'Medium',99:'High'})[Math.round(@props.lightLevel /
33) * 33] || @props.lightLevel
style:
margin-right: 10px
font-size: 20px
font-weight: bold
- component: oh-list-item
config:
title: Fan
icon: "={ '0': 'oh:myfan', '25': 'oh:myfan-25', '50': 'oh:myfan-50', '75': 'oh:myfan-75', '100' : 'oh:myfan-100' }[@props.fanSpeed] ||
'oh:myfan-off'"
iconUseState: true
actionItem: =props.fanSpeed
action: options
actionOptions: 0=Off,25=1,50=2,75=3,100=4
slots:
after:
- component: Label
config:
text: =@props.fanSpeed/25
style:
font-size: 20px
font-weight: bold
margin-right: 20px
- component: oh-list-item
config:
title: Timer
icon: '=(@props.timerOn == "ON") ? "oh:time-on" : "on:time"'
slots:
after:
- component: f7-row
slots:
default:
- component: oh-toggle
config:
item: =props.timerOn
style:
margin-right: 20px
- component: oh-stepper
config:
color: black
item: =props.timerMinutes
step: =props.timerStep
min: 1
- component: oh-list-item
config:
title: Thermostat
icon: oh:temperature
slots:
after:
- component: f7-row
slots:
default:
- component: oh-toggle
config:
item: =props.thermostatSwitch
style:
margin-right: 20px
- component: oh-stepper
config:
color: black
item: =props.tempSet
min: 55
max: 75
step: 1
your code goes here
I’m not sure I understand the timer. If I set the Timer number to 1, it sets the timer for 1 hour when I turn it on. If I set it to 0.0167 ie 1/60 it still sets the timer for one hour when I turn it on. Since the timer is actually a function in the remote, I’m tempted to use a timer in an openHAB rule instead.
Timer units are minutes. Integers only. If I set mine to 15, the remote says 15 minutes remaining.