Comparing Homey Pro to SmartThings ~ 8 Essential Apps for Your Homey Smart Home

In today’s episode, I'll present eight must have Homey apps that I've will likely be of interest to those who may be contemplating a switch to Homey from the SmartThings ecosystem.

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00:00 Introduction
00:40 Amazon Alexa App
01:18 Heimdall App
02:09 Homey Community Space App
02:52 SmartThings 2 App
03:25 SharpTools App
03:55 Virtual Devices App
04:17 Smart Presence App
04:52 Ring Security app
05:17 My Conclusion

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[latinfm]

Bud. This was amazing and since you will be covering Homey Pro, I am now an official subscriber. Keep them coming…. I’m eagerly watching 👍🏼

[dankelley]

Thanks Bud for your continued deep dive on the Homey Hub. I’m very interested in seeing where this is heading & if you will eventually move everything over to the Homey Hub. I’d hate to lose your input on SmartThings, but could be coaxed to change if this is a better future route to be on.

[goshawk]

definitely be interested in video showing how setup sharp tools or any video on dashboards. My one biggest issue with homey is lack of documentation and assumptions on technical programming/script knowledge.

[MaliceVanRow]

Thanks for the continued homey pro videos. I've been looking at it for a while. Been with smartthings for 5+ years and things just don't seem to be evolving. Been checking homey out for a while. Trying to justify the $400 price tag.

[RobertDionne-xwik]

Hello Bud, Thanks for a great video!
Thank you for telling us about the Homey Community Store. However, I'm having trouble installing the app for this. I followed your link and then the instructions. At some point it takes me to a screen that says "Could not automatically log you in. Please copy & paste the code below in the command-line." And then there is a long string of characters to copy and paste, such as But I don't know where to paste this code in the "command-line."
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks again!

[dimitrios]

Hi, how we control the Homey outside the house and what happens if the Homey company goes down? Does this Smart Home System rely only on the Cloud? Keep up with those videos!

[JamesDLegan]

Hi Bud. Always look forward to your expertise and it is appreciated. Regarding Smartthings I currently have my alarm connected to the Konnected alarm panel and monitored through Smartthings Home Monitor. If nothing else I assumed I would still need to run Smartthings hub for that alone, but when you mentioned Smartthings 2 app in Homey now I am wondering if I would actually be able to transfer that also and monitor alarm? Do you find Homey Pro much faster in processing as when I hit a switch the lag to my devices is much less?

[nunoalves]

hello bud
Can you make a video showing how the homey community store works?
thank you

[kevinjackson]

Hey Bud, been following your channel for a while now and I have a question for you. I have the Homey Pro and an Aeotec HubV3 with Alexa as my voice assistant. When I tried to integrate my Echos through the Amazon Alexa app in Homey i keep getting an error saying unsecured website and it won't allow me to sign into my Amazon account. I'm running Chrome for my browser. Just curious if you were having any issues on your end when you ran the app? Not really getting a lot of useful information from the community forum.

[HasimFN]

You dont need virtual switches app. You can enable virtual devices in homey settings

[philipperostin]

Homey. like Hubitat, is terrible with cameras and thermostats. At that price it should be compatible with almost anything, but yet it's not ! As for Smart Things it is becoming less and less reliable ! I had yet another day of device offline device online device offline .... for the entire day. It was refusing to go back online with the LAN but was doing ot with wifi ???? The 3D room maping in ST is a running joke as even a 5 years old can respect dimensions more precisely than Samsung ! I dont where we are going with home automation, but it is not improving, but the opposite. Matter is still a trial and error thing and hubs are increasingly less reliable but more expensive ! What a mess they created !