Homey Pro Smart Home Hub - Your Questions ANSWERED!

Who exactly is the Homey Pro for in a world where Home Assistant exists? Why would someone buy this hub vs. using Apple, Google or Amazon's smart home platform? We'll answer these questions and more from our subscribers in our first look at the Homey Pro smart home hub, which recently was launched in the United States and Canada.

Some other topics we'll cover include what exactly you get with the Homey Pro, and if you can use it in a similar way to Homebridge by being able to import devices into Apple's HomeKit.

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🕰️Timestamps:
0:00 - Homey Pro vs. Home Assistant
1:27 - Do you have to know code to use it?
2:41 - Who is this device for with the Matter standard?
5:05 - Homey Pro vs. Homey vs. Big Tech
6:43 - Homey Pro and Homekit vs. Homebridge
7:51 - Who should get this vs. Home Assistant?
9:06 - Chat GPT, Home Assistant, Generative AI

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[redman]

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.

[joeylockie]

This is one of the better reviews I have seen. Most reviews of this product came its better in every way then home assistant

[Killingsteak]

The samsung smartthings hub does support zigbee, zwave, thread and matter

[sabohn]

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.

[sen-sai]

Had a homey pro and now the new Homey pro 2023. Love it! Works great with Google!

[TechNovelTies]

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!

[dennismcreynolds]

What is the difference from the original homey and the homey pro

[MichaelToub]

Can it speak through echo speakers without using virtual switches like smart things ?

[Annabannana]

im new to smart homes. Can this act as a way to integrate my non-home kit products into home kit. like Hoobs ?

[carlowisse]

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?

[nurdi]

Never heard about the home assistant yellow? Itis a plug and play hardware platform for home assistant

[AdamW-cm]

Could you do a review of the Fibaro home centre 3 as well please

[mrfreezey]

When you were mentioning Home Assistant you meant as a whole? Does that include the green version or were you just referring to Yellow?

[PsychoticShine]

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?

[justinverschoor]

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!

[Kickdrumsnare]

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??

[AndrewSigner]

Is this now available in the US I know at one point it wasn’t

[redman]

I have a question. How well do these integrate into the voice assistants out there. Like Alexa, Siri, Google.

[francosabatini]

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