I’m with the chatGPT guy. I’ve been wanting this for awhile. I want to be able to have a human level conversation with my smart hub and have it be able to respond accordingly both in regular conversation stuff and with automation items. For example. When a new person comes into the house and want them to be able to say turn the lights on. The assistant will respond saying of course, which light? They would say “oh, the light in the living room.” The assistant would turn the overhead light on and then say, was that the one you wanted? The person would say no I meant the lamp. The hub would switch the overhead light off and the lamp on and say all good now. This is what I want. I want an ai that’s aware of the smart devices in the home and be able to logically understand and interpret what the human is requesting. Also be able to answer other random questions. Like how many fish are between New York and maine. You know a lot closer to Jarvis in Ironman. I’ve wanted this same sort of thing on my phone too.
I run Homey Pro into my 4th year now and myst say I have become a big fan. The device suport is endless with the community apps. Advanced flow makes it so simple to implement exactly what logic you need. My recommandation is to get the ethernet adapter as well. Everything you can do with cable you should.
I almost bought the Homey Pro but I didn't see any support for Honeywell wifi thermostat and DSC alarm through Envisalink. From the forum, is sounds like people have been asking for these apps for years. I find id really odd that Homey does not support these.
Thank you for this! Very insightful! The Homey Pro also gives access to the community apps that aren't available for the cloud based Homey Bridge or app-only option. Looking forward to the 6 months later review!
The Smartthings Aeotec Hub has Zigbee Z_Wave Wifi Bluetooth Thread Matter and its cheaper then Homey which is also has all the smart home protocols. There both all in one hubs. But which is better to go with?
I think the ChatGPT comment is particularly due to the lack of personality and clarity from Google assistant and Siri. I’ve found that the experience of talking with CGPT is wholesome and leaves me feeling like I don’t want to strangle it like I do with Siri.. so yeah - put CGPT in this thing.
So does Homey Pro replace the base hub for things like Philips Hue? Or does the Homey Pro need to connect to the Philips Hue Hub after you have connected all of the lights to it?
It can replace the Philips Hue Hub, but if you already have one like I do, it will also just talk to the other hub if you don’t want to migrate everything over. Will investigate what features you’d potentially loose doing that.
I am running about 80 hue bulbs/devices (sensors, remotes, etc.) and I have Nest, Google Nest cameras, Level Lock +, and others (roughly 100 devices across a few platforms) and currently use a Orbi wireless mesh with a hue hub on each floor.. and it’s sluggish through Apple home at best. Q: Would I need to buy multiple of the homey hubs to run this or what? Will one sing hub be able to manage 3 floors of devices??
I think one single hub should be enough, but it’s not going to work with the nest cameras, and there might be other devices you have it can’t control. So just be aware of that. But for things like lights one should be enough to control the Zigbee mesh. If things are slow now, I’d def give it a shot. If it doesn’t work out you can always return it if you bought it through a place like Amazon. - Josh
My Hue Hub is full (49 devices, several scenes, rules etc.), and my Apple TV and HomePod doesn't support Zigbee and Z Wave, and my Frame TV and Dongle is painfully slow.... so I guess I need more, and am hoping this Homey Pro is a pretty futureproof solution. The £400 price tag is very steep though!
No it's not. I use the Homey for for the last six years now since their start-up day's and still happy about it. Run's the 74 different smart devices in my house perfectly !
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can a zwave wall switch that was not excluded from vera be paired to homy
I’m with the chatGPT guy. I’ve been wanting this for awhile. I want to be able to have a human level conversation with my smart hub and have it be able to respond accordingly both in regular conversation stuff and with automation items. For example. When a new person comes into the house and want them to be able to say turn the lights on. The assistant will respond saying of course, which light? They would say “oh, the light in the living room.” The assistant would turn the overhead light on and then say, was that the one you wanted? The person would say no I meant the lamp. The hub would switch the overhead light off and the lamp on and say all good now. This is what I want. I want an ai that’s aware of the smart devices in the home and be able to logically understand and interpret what the human is requesting. Also be able to answer other random questions. Like how many fish are between New York and maine. You know a lot closer to Jarvis in Ironman. I’ve wanted this same sort of thing on my phone too.
The samsung smartthings hub does support zigbee, zwave, thread and matter
Offline?
@Space-O-2001 it does have offline support
I run Homey Pro into my 4th year now and myst say I have become a big fan. The device suport is endless with the community apps. Advanced flow makes it so simple to implement exactly what logic you need. My recommandation is to get the ethernet adapter as well. Everything you can do with cable you should.
I almost bought the Homey Pro but I didn't see any support for Honeywell wifi thermostat and DSC alarm through Envisalink. From the forum, is sounds like people have been asking for these apps for years. I find id really odd that Homey does not support these.
This is one of the better reviews I have seen. Most reviews of this product came its better in every way then home assistant
Had a homey pro and now the new Homey pro 2023. Love it! Works great with Google!
Thank you for this! Very insightful! The Homey Pro also gives access to the community apps that aren't available for the cloud based Homey Bridge or app-only option.
Looking forward to the 6 months later review!
Of course and thanks for mentioning that! I'll def make sure we mention that in our full review.
Never heard about the home assistant yellow? Itis a plug and play hardware platform for home assistant
If you have spare cash get this. If you don't then home assistant is a worthy equivalent, just a lot finicky to get started with.
Can it speak through echo speakers without using virtual switches like smart things ?
Could you do a review of the Fibaro home centre 3 as well please
It looks good but that price is a killer. I don't mind paying a premium but it's difficult to justify that price
The Smartthings Aeotec Hub has Zigbee Z_Wave Wifi Bluetooth Thread Matter and its cheaper then Homey which is also has all the smart home protocols. There both all in one hubs. But which is better to go with?
I’m wondering too mate. Have an aeotec now. Wondering if I upgrade to homey
im new to smart homes. Can this act as a way to integrate my non-home kit products into home kit. like Hoobs ?
I think the ChatGPT comment is particularly due to the lack of personality and clarity from Google assistant and Siri. I’ve found that the experience of talking with CGPT is wholesome and leaves me feeling like I don’t want to strangle it like I do with Siri.. so yeah - put CGPT in this thing.
We need list of supported devices?
We are 6 months later! How is the hub still working and do you it as a stand alobe hub or for example with komekit? I'm dying for the new review!
We got a bit behind last month, it’s coming next week!
Cant wait!@@6MonthsLater
Is it possible to include shelly alterco products for example the shelly plus 1 pm (without zigbee)?
Can this replace my Lutron Hub?
i bought homey pro on amazon and returned it because i could not pair sonoff devices and tuya wifi.
maybe i should have waited and tried better
You saved yourself $400... I still can not get homey app to see any tuya devices or anything but matter....
When you were mentioning Home Assistant you meant as a whole? Does that include the green version or were you just referring to Yellow?
Just as a whole, yes.
So does Homey Pro replace the base hub for things like Philips Hue? Or does the Homey Pro need to connect to the Philips Hue Hub after you have connected all of the lights to it?
It can replace the Philips Hue Hub, but if you already have one like I do, it will also just talk to the other hub if you don’t want to migrate everything over. Will investigate what features you’d potentially loose doing that.
I am running about 80 hue bulbs/devices (sensors, remotes, etc.) and I have Nest, Google Nest cameras, Level Lock +, and others (roughly 100 devices across a few platforms) and currently use a Orbi wireless mesh with a hue hub on each floor.. and it’s sluggish through Apple home at best.
Q: Would I need to buy multiple of the homey hubs to run this or what? Will one sing hub be able to manage 3 floors of devices??
I think one single hub should be enough, but it’s not going to work with the nest cameras, and there might be other devices you have it can’t control. So just be aware of that. But for things like lights one should be enough to control the Zigbee mesh. If things are slow now, I’d def give it a shot. If it doesn’t work out you can always return it if you bought it through a place like Amazon. - Josh
I have a question. How well do these integrate into the voice assistants out there. Like Alexa, Siri, Google.
The integrate very fine, I have one, and I give commands to Alexa and Homey does the actions, all the devices is Homey are also usable by the Echo's.
Is this now available in the US I know at one point it wasn’t
It is now shopping to the US. Checked the pinned comment above, should be a US Amazon link for it. - Josh
How many Hubs you need to have in your home? 😏🤔
My Hue Hub is full (49 devices, several scenes, rules etc.), and my Apple TV and HomePod doesn't support Zigbee and Z Wave, and my Frame TV and Dongle is painfully slow.... so I guess I need more, and am hoping this Homey Pro is a pretty futureproof solution. The £400 price tag is very steep though!
Seems way overpriced for what it is.
No it's not. I use the Homey for for the last six years now since their start-up day's and still happy about it. Run's the 74 different smart devices in my house perfectly !