Homey Pro Smart Home Hub Review - 6 Months Later

Is 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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🕰️Timestamps:
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]

Very well made video!💪👍 Nice approach.

[VideoNOLA]

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]

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.

[scpipad]

When much does it cost 100 dollars i will replace my home assistant for Homey

[Saturn]

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.

[Saturn]

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.

[jeffg]

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

[KeenerLinder]

Hey it's Bon Jovi from the 2011 Lib Dub challenge

[boudewijndejong]

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.

[RonnoNL]

If you were to connect the Ethernet adapter the way you show us at 1:13 it will definitely fail.
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?

[Akeran]

Not enough compatibility with Google Nest products for instance, so I'm gonna wait until then.

[mysoundiicon]

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.

[martinskumat]

The video didn't provide enough practical examples of how to connect devices to Homey or how Homey integrates with specific smart home devices.
The reviewer spent too much time on general information about Homey and not enough time on the specifics of how it works.
The video was overall a waste of time and the reviewer's comments were not very informative.