Homey Pro (Early 2023) | Smart Home Hub for Automation – Z-Wave Plus, Zigbee, Wi-Fi, BLE, Infrared, Matter & Thread. Compatible with Siri, Alexa & Google Home

I have been using Homey Pro for a little over a year now. Prior to switching to Homey, I was using Apple HomeKit. That was great when I was new to building a smart home, but as time went on, I was growing more and more frustrated with Apple refusing to allow for any kind of advanced automations and with them taking forever to implement even the most basic features and device types. After wanting to try something else, I started using Home Assistant. That is extremely powerful and there isn’t much you can’t do with it, but I also felt like I needed a coding degree to set up even the most basic automations. Having a smart home is fun for me and I had very little fun using Home Assistant. This is when I decided to give Homey a try and I am SO glad I did. Homey has been nothing but amazing. They are fairly new to the US market, so there are some apps and some brands that don’t work at the moment, but unlike Apple, Homey actually interacts with and listens to it’s users. There have been so many new features, small and large, that have been implemented in just the past year alone. They are constantly working with companies to get more brand compatibility as well. I’ve really only had one brand that didn’t work for me and it wasn’t a big deal at all. VOCOlinc. Everything else that I already had, worked like a charm. Creating automations with Homey Pro is super fun. The smallest, simplest automations and the most complex ones. So far, there hasn’t been an automation that I wanted to do with Homey and wasn’t able to. The automations are fast and never fail to work. If an automation were to not work properly, you can get a notification sent to you and troubleshooting it is easy. You can see exactly where the automation failed and get right to fixing it, rather than having to test every part of it individually. People always complain about the price being too high, but honestly, if you can’t afford this, you probably got into the wrong hobby. It’s really not that bad, especially with everything you are getting and everything already being built in to the Homey Pro itself. I don’t need to go buy dongles and other accessories for it to work how I want it to, like I would with Home Assistant, for example. One purchase and you’re set. It’s hard for me to come up with anything I don’t like about Homey. It’s truly a great system and I would recommend it to anyone. Best smart home decision of my life.

My Homey Pro hub has performed exactly as advertised. Good support is readily available from a knowledgeable real person. One of my positive experiences concerned a Phillips Hue motion detector. Phillips is essentially a light bulb company so their focus is on controlling lights. My intended purpose was to detect unwanted people in my house. So I had to hack through all the stuff about controlling lights and about needing a bridge. Eventually, I discovered that the Phillips App would not run on my Android 9 phone. I was ready to give up and pitch the Phillips motion detector when Homey came to the rescue. I found out, after a little more hacking around, how to put the motion detector into pairing mode and presented it to my Homey hub. Homey found the motion detector and indicated that there was an App available to support it. Homey then downloaded the App to the hub and the motion detector works just fine. For those having frustrations with their Homey hub, be aware that these hubs are addressing a serious data communication problem. Being able to communicate with a vast array of devices from a large number of different manufacturers, many of whom would prefer that you used exclusively their hardware is seriously a non trivial problem.

I tried to integrate my home and a lot brands work with Homey Pro…it misses yet the brands in America….its because I returned it but in my test the technologies I can integrate worked very well…the only thing is when I remove the internet and close the app, it was NOT possibly to reconnect locally but if we leave the app open, all will work locally…

​The Homey Pro is easily the best smart home hub EVER. The Advanced Flows are an absolute game-changer and let you build automations that simply aren't possible on other platforms. If you have devices scattered across different brands and want them to actually work together seamlessly, this hub is worth every single penny. ​Flawless Ecosystem Bridge: It effortlessly connects everything in my home. My Google Minis, Alexa devices, LG appliances, Philips Hue, and GE lights all talk to each other without a hitch. ​Next-Level Automation Logic: The Advanced Flows are unreal. At night, a presence sensor triggers a soft light path to the water cooler so no one stumbles in the dark. Fun Custom Alerts: Whenever the washing machine finishes a cycle, Homey automatically blasts Outkast’s "So Fresh, So Clean" through the house—easily my favorite automation! ​If you want complete control over your multi-brand smart home and automations that other platforms just can't touch, buy this now!!!

Tried setting it up, would not connect to wifi. Retrying multiple times, finally got it to connect but stuck infinitely at updating software prompt. Disappointed and have started my return.