Homey Pro Smart Home Hub Review - 6 Months Later
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Күн бұрынIs the Homey Pro smart home hub worth its $399 price? 6 Months Later, what are its best features? What are the downsides of using it and who exactly should pick up this hub for their smartphone? We’ll answer all of those questions in this review plus compare going with the Homey Pro to Home Assistant and who should go for each type of smart home hub.
We’ll also take you through what hardware standards Homey Pro supports, the Homey app, Flows and Advanced Flows, which are what Homey calls their smart home automations, Homey Pro apps, Homey Script, the downsides of going with Homey over other smart home solutions, and our recommendations.
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0:00 - External Design and Hardware
1:16 - Homey App
3:32 - Homey Flows and Advanced Flows
5:24 - Battery Status and Automated Updates
5:50 - Homey Pro vs. Home Assistant
6:28 - Downsides
7:34 - Recommendations
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@aleksekokorev 2 ай бұрын
Very well made video!💪👍 Nice approach.
@VideoNOLA 2 ай бұрын
Needed to see this, so i could understand what all the hooplah is about. I've seen friends hop into the Home Assistant camp *and* the Homey Pro camp, each group claiming theirs is the "winner". I'd love to see a Venn diagram of where their respective userbase overlaps, if at all.
@DennisSchmitz 3 ай бұрын
Eagerly waiting for the Aqara M3, every single sensor and light in my place has matter support anyway. It should still be easy to operate and I also want to get their Doorbell and U200 lock at some point. Much cheaper than the Homey Pro as well.
@evilboy7548 3 ай бұрын
AND they are exposing a ir sensor to matter
@scpipad 3 ай бұрын
When much does it cost 100 dollars i will replace my home assistant for Homey
@Saturn2888 19 күн бұрын
I'm a JavaScript developer, and love the idea of writing JS; potentially TypeScript, over Python like Home Assistant. Still, I was burned by SmartThings and so many other solutions over the years that I picked a few manufacturers and kept with those solutions. Home Assistant looks like it'll hold out longer, and it's not tied to a single device.
@MichaelToub Ай бұрын
Great Video!
@jeffg8065 3 ай бұрын
You're wrong about the Aqara FP2 sensor @ 2:30. It works amazingly well with Homey Pro through the Homekit Controller app, not Aqara app on the Homey Pro. P.S. I don't even have or use the apple ecosystem in my house. Team Android 💪🏾. I own 2 FP2 sensors that work with Homey and I don't use the native Aqara app at all, only during the intial setup and for updates. Homey like every other smart home device is for tinkeres. Just like Home assistant. Just nicer to look at and on a lesser scale. Everything in the smart home realm has its pitfalls. Its a relationship with a woman. Some real great days and more bad days. But you love them anyway and you're not going anywhere. Even when you're caught cheating. Lol food for thought
@Saturn2888 19 күн бұрын
Those flows are a super old concept from back in 2015 then IoT was starting to pickup. Is that unique to Homey and not part of Home Assistant? it's something I really wanna setup so I'm not tied to a single manufacturer's products.
@fallenwout 2 ай бұрын
Djeez that price!
@KeenerLinder 2 ай бұрын
Hey it's Bon Jovi from the 2011 Lib Dub challenge
@boudewijndejong9134 3 ай бұрын
You obviously missed the mess last week that showed that Homey is not as local as advertised. The authentication is done on the web and last week’s server problem proved that. Additionally, you really don’t want Homey to update automatically as that will break your community apps at some point due to developers not updating their apps. As both the Homey and community apps are closed source, forking is not possible.
@frydenland 2 ай бұрын
This is the caveat of scaling a small company with (for now) limited resources. You simply cannot address every single small issue at once. This has, since the incident, been addressed and then promised fixed. Do you honestly want me to believe that you leave automatic system updates ON for something like Home Assistant? I run both systems. Rarely does a system update affect community apps for Homey. The same thing cannot be said for Home Assistant (with its rapid rather, chaotic development timeline). At times, I spend HOURS debugging the mess an update leaves behind on Home Assistant. (If you wonder why I address Home Assistant, I got one tell tale for you: «closed source». This seems to be the number one anti argument for nearly every single HA fanboy that I have encountered. Let aside, only a few select of you are even able to, or have the time to fork a codebase (and then eventually proceeding to actually FIXING the issue an update causes). Further more, Homey is actively recruiting big brands to make OFFICIAL apps (with dedicated, paid development teams. Teams that can, and will push out regular updates as needed). This is, in my opinion, certainly the way to move forwards towards a simpler, and more time efficient smart home future , compared to something like HA's community driven strategy, with its independent, non-paid , non-official, and most of the times amateur developers (short cuts, hacks, exploitation of API's, drop in interest, life changing priorities and all that...). As an example, Home Assistant's Homekit integration is sketchy as fuck (i wonder when Apple will pull the plug on that one). Granted, Homey does still rely heavily on community apps. Thankfully, most of the ones that are worth keeping, are being replaced by promptly updated official apps.
@frydenland 2 ай бұрын
This is the caveat of scaling a small company with (for now) limited resources. You simply cannot address every single small issue at once. This has, since the incident, been addressed and then promised fixed. Do you honestly want me to believe that you leave automatic system updates ON for something like Home Assistant? I run both systems. Rarely does a system update affect community apps for Homey. The same thing cannot be said for Home Assistant (with its rapid rather, chaotic development timeline). At times, I spend HOURS debugging the mess an update leaves behind on Home Assistant. (If you wonder why I address Home Assistant, I got one tell tale for you: «closed source». This seems to be the number one anti argument for nearly every single HA fanboy that I have encountered. Let aside, only a few select of you are even able to, or have the time to fork a codebase (and then eventually proceeding to actually FIXING the issue an update causes). Further more, Homey is actively recruiting big brands to make OFFICIAL apps (with dedicated, paid development teams. Teams that can, and will push out regular updates as needed). This is, in my opinion, certainly the way to move forwards towards a simpler, and more time efficient smart home future , compared to something like HA's community driven strategy, with its independent, non-paid , non-official, and most of the times amateur developers (short cuts, hacks, exploitation of API's, drop in interest, life changing priorities and all that...). As an example, Home Assistant's Homekit integration is sketchy as f*** (i wonder when Apple will pull the plug on that one). Granted, Homey does still rely heavily on community apps. Thankfully, most of the ones that are worth keeping, are being replaced by promptly updated official apps.
@frydenland 2 ай бұрын
This is the caveat of scaling a small company with (for now) limited resources. You simply cannot address every single small issue at once. This has, since the incident, been addressed and then promised fixed. Do you honestly want me to believe that you leave automatic system updates ON for something like Home Assistant? I run both systems. Rarely does a system update affect community apps for Homey. The same thing cannot be said for Home Assistant (with its rapid rather, chaotic development timeline). At times, I spend HOURS debugging the mess an update leaves behind on Home Assistant. (If you wonder why I address Home Assistant, I got one tell tale for you: «closed source». This seems to be the number one anti argument for nearly every single HA fanboy that I have encountered. Let aside, only a few select of you are even able to, or have the time to fork a codebase (and then eventually proceeding to actually FIXING the issue an update causes). Further more, Homey is actively recruiting big brands to make OFFICIAL apps (with dedicated, paid development teams. Teams that can, and will push out regular updates as needed). This is, in my opinion, certainly the way to move forwards towards a simpler, and more time efficient smart home future , compared to something like HA's community driven strategy, with its independent, non-paid , non-official, and most of the times amateur developers (short cuts, hacks, exploitation of API's, drop in interest, life changing priorities and all that...). As an example, Home Assistant's Homekit integration is sketchy as f*** (i wonder when Apple will pull the plug on that one). Granted, Homey does still rely heavily on community apps. Thankfully, most of the ones that are worth keeping, are being replaced by promptly updated official apps.
@RonnoNL 3 ай бұрын
If you were to connect the Ethernet adapter the way you show us at 1:13 it will definitely fail. It is neatly explained here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oa6jqZh4rZ-Xfas.html About the company you refer to at 1:41 - it's Athom, not Anthom. As for the rest: what did you yourself think of this review?
@mazenkheder3309 3 ай бұрын
This device has customers very low rating??!!!!!!
@Akeran 2 ай бұрын
Not enough compatibility with Google Nest products for instance, so I'm gonna wait until then.
@frydenland 2 ай бұрын
Google Nest has effectively shut down their API's a long time ago. Google DOES NOT want to make friends with third parties like Homey (or literally ANY other smart hub). That bridge is burned.
@mysoundiicon8473 Ай бұрын
if your asking your self should i buy this. then no don't ! it's grate when it works for sure.... but this is beta. no one told me it was F -ing Beta. this is to much for beta... i was also told it would work local that was bullshit cos i need to have internet so i can use the app and homey pro need internet so it can connect to the server so i can access it through the app. if internet is offline the it will still control your light and stuff for about a week unless you restart it cos the light is red. and don't turn off the update cos i did that after updates forced my box to go offline for 2-3 weeks. i don't know whats wrong with the f-ing thing it works but it loses connection to the dns server now and then. the box is right there but the server is not letting it connect so i can't do shit.
@DjBlaaack 3 ай бұрын
Way too expensive
@frydenland 2 ай бұрын
$ 399 is to expensive? Home Assistant would cost you way more in both hardware, man hours and loss of brain cells in the process of setting it up/maintaining it. The automation creation tool alone (Homey Advanced Flows) would literally save you dozens of hours, compared to something like Hubitat or HA. And we all now time is money. We would not be automating stuff, if not.
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