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With Athom's base station, called Homey, you won't need a remote any longer. Control all smart devices in your home through this single base staton. Let several products of different brands communicate with each other, thanks to the open platform. How do you control the products? Use the Homeys Flow Editor as an app on your smart device. It's also possible to control Homey with your voice. You do need the Google Home or Amazon Echo to do this. Use the app (Android and iOS) to set various scenes. For example, set all living room lamps to switch on the moment you get home, and turn down the thermostat when you leave the house. Since the Homey knows many protocols (including Somfy, Z-Wave, Z-Wave Plus, and ZigBee), the station can communicate with a lot of different brands.
The following brands are, among others, compatible with the Homey base station: Fibaro, Philips Hue, Honeywell Evohome, Smartwares, Toon, Nest, Plugwise Anna, Alecto, KlikAanKlikUit, Qubino, Doorbird, and Ring
Smart home platform | Amazon Alexa, Apple HomeKit, Google Assistant, Homey, IFTTT | |
Power supply type | Power grid | |
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Linkable to a protocol |
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That was a bitter pill, 300 peanuts, It can cost something. Whew, ouch, #schatzoujedatweldoen #yessuretreasurethatmakes your life more beautiful
A white sphere with a nice edge with LED lights, it could control my click-on-click-off lights, cool.
Unpacked, installation was a bit difficult (my internet is crap, it's not the Homey, but it didn't 'repack' itself well either) but in the end I got it to work.
The interface looks slick. You can configure and operate the entire device via a Windows or Mac PC. Nice interface, works smoothly. It's a pity that so far this is only possible via PC. I do believe that Athom (the creators of the Homey) will eventually put more effort into a smartphone app that supports more. At the moment you can just control all your devices but not adjust flows and settings.
The smartphone app they have now is nice. It's great if you happen to want to turn off a light while you're lying on the couch with a bag of peanuts and your cat.
The interface is (as said) nice to work with, nice! Playful, beautiful, professional and yet also like "ey, if you don't understand it, then I look great". Sun factor. Old cheese with red wine, not everyone likes that either, but it is seen as something beautiful and therefore accepted more quickly.
Once I played with the flows and my Click-on Click-out system I found out that Homey has an app for Milight that works! (Don't know Milight yet? Wow, check china shops!)
Milestone 1: "Okay Homey, we're going to sleep", and this white friend just turns off all the lights AND the TV! He also says "Sweetheart, sleep well". In the morning he asks me via my smartphone if I want to know the news, and when I press "yes", he just reads the news!
Milestone 2: "Yo, black cheese, do you want to hear music?" - he just asks as soon as I get home. I say "yes", and the TV switches on, switches to 1802 (Sublime FM!) and independently goes to the menu and chooses "switch off picture", I have pure music. Secretly programmed through a "FLOW" (◕‿◕✿). My girlfriend thought it was funny too.
Milestone 3 : "Yo, can you turn on the oven for me?", "Yes" I got back, and my girlfriend turned on the oven. It was time for pizza!
Milestone 4 : Bought a photo frame at the Xenos, 6 peanuts, cut away plastic with a multi-tool so that my old frikandel iPad 2 fits in here. I thought "I'm going to run the Homey app on that". List ready, no homey app. There is no app for tablet, so, balls.
Fortunately, there is an 'app' in the 'Appstore' of the Homey! It's called "Homeydash"! And it works fine. You can then control devices and flows (GEEK Shizz : do you want to control a flow? You can start flows with 'virtual devices', you create flow as you want, link it to a 'virtual button' and set that 'virtual button' your homeydash #ploep).
Now, I also see that the Homey supports Google Play, among other things. Spotify is not supported, and oh, neither are bluetooth speakers (YET). So maybe I'll switch, so I can have music coming from different speakers, machine.
And, Homey supports Ikea lamps I saw, cost: teenager per dimmer or lamp. Order 1 every month! For example, I could replace all the lamps in the house with the 'Ikea TRÅDFRI' (+ a TRÅDFRI dimmer). Not bad for an LED lamp with such a light and specifications. You can then for example:
If [girlfriend] puts the phone on the charger AND [moi] puts the phone on the charger AND it's during the week AND it's between 11 PM and 6 AM, THEN EVERYTHING turns off! And, you can still control everything via the dimmers on the wall (DIMMERS!). Very female friendly. Just like old cheese with mustard, also pleasant.
Furthermore, I now intend to burn all my savings on fun shizznit. Homey supports many devices, but not all of them. For example, I have a wireless doorbell from LIDL (cost: same as 4 packs of cheese, slightly less) that works via RF signal, but there is no app for that yet. You also cannot record and use RF signals (user-friendly), unless you have a good dose of development knowledge.
I'll check out some motion sensors that are compatible with what's in the app store. The next step is to be able to control the lamp by the front door (if someone calls, then switch on the lamp. If the time is between 20:00 and 04:00, the lamp is on, etc. And smoke detectors, Coolblue sells 3 wireless smoke detectors (ALECTO SA-33) for a nice amount Homey should cooperate with it if I believe the app store.
I hope this is of some use to you. It would be a shame if I could also spend all this time eating tasty tapas. Or wine.
IN SHORT : I think it's a cool thing, and I believe very much in the progress and development of the Homey. It's expensive for what I have now. But for what I'll have in a year's worth of equipment, it's more than worth it. Apart from the hardware, there is also a lot of skill in the field of software (buienradar, nu.nl, weather, location, presence).
WOW. I barely even talked about voice control. You can best control the above things with a voice command, but it just doesn't work well yet.
With my soft G I'm already out of the loop, but you don't have to do it (yet) with the voice control. It's nice, but sometimes you have to AR-TI-CU-LE-REUHH like a half-wit, and then Homey says: "Okay, G. I get this".
p.s. the forum is great to poke around, and their roadmap.
Joey van der Beek
17 October 2017
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Hi, Joey here. From the other review "Good shizznit!". I couldn't find a way to update my review but I would like to vent.
The Homey still works great! What is nice to know: they are working on a big smartphone app, which is already live with a basic variant. You can now edit flows, control devices etc. really cool.
Furthermore, the Homey is nice and stable! The tablet is still hanging on the wall, works, lights turn on automatically, I only have to press 1 button when I go to sleep and Homey turns everything off and switches on the alarm, when someone is at the door I get a photo on it the smartphone, when I'm at work Homey asks "Yo menn, when you get home, shall I turn everything on?", and then when I get home (AND, my girlfriend isn't home yet, AND the time is between 17: 30 and 18:30 (done with work) then the Homey turns on my lights and radio, SAY WHAAAT?. The cousin reacts to a door sensor from Neo Coolcam, bought from AliExpress for 15 peanuts ATTENTION : buy EU version!
Furthermore, the meistro reminds us that the organic waste bin or waste paper must be taken out, he can switch the entire ground floor on or off, he still asks on Thursday if we are having a movie night and he regularly asks "Do you feel like pizza?", if I then select 'yes' he sends a message to my beloved friend.
Very sometimes the commands don't reach my TV, so I zap to channel 181 instead of 1812, then he misses the 2, which I miss too. 2 is fine. Well, that is simply a limitation of the protocol. If you have Z-Wave, Wifi or Zigbee, the Homey can still check whether the signal has arrived and if not, send it again.
What does give me dry skin is: they still don't have blue tooth support for normal billy blue tooth speakers. They promise to come with it in the next update, expected in a few months, I'm curious. At that time I will post a 3rd review.
Joey van der Beek
22 December 2017
Automatically translated from Dutch
After testing Zipatile for a few months, I was curious about the Homey because I had some problems with the z-wave range and my lamps were inexplicably not switched on some days... otherwise I didn't feel like going back every year. 100 euros to be allocated for the 'proversion'
Fortunately, the Homey was back in stock and had it in the same day. The shipping and keeping informed of who the deliverer is and what time the package will be delivered is TOP arranged!
The initial setup was easy with the laptop included. The LED ring looks very cool and had learned the z-wave modules from Fibaro and Neo Coolcam again. The support of the various products can be easily installed via their own Appstore and what strikes me is that this is arranged much better than with the Zipatile. Unlike the Zipatile, my Z-wave mash environment now works perfectly! Creating an account and installing the App on iPhone is also easy and you can also enter the voice commands via your phone. The Homey also sees, based on your mobile, whether you are coming home or leaving. Of course this product is still in development, but because of the open source many products and apps are already available and this will only increase rapidly! In summary, I can say that this is a big improvement on the Zipatile! So highly recommended!!
Point of improvement: Although there is a lot to be found on the internet about the various flows, it would have been nice to have a number of standard flows in the manual to start with and get an idea of what is possible.
O. Goedhart Bakker
16 March 2018
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Product number | 792927 | |
Manufacturer code | Athom | |
Brand | Athom | |
Warranty | 2 years | |
Processing of your defect | Carry-in warranty |
Height | 12 cm | |
Depth | 12 cm | |
Width | 12 cm | |
Weight | 6 kg | |
Touchscreen |
Power supply type | Power grid |
Link to router | Wired |
Controls via app | ||
Compatible with smartphone / apps | ||
Controlled via Apple app | ||
Controlled via Android app | ||
Controlled via Windows app | ||
Linkable to home automation | ||
Control panel included | ||
Smart home platform | Amazon Alexa, Apple HomeKit, Google Assistant, Homey, IFTTT |
Voice control | ||
Clock speed | 1 GHz | |
Frequencies | 433, 868 | |
Number of frequency channels | 2 | |
Protocol | 433.92 MHz, Bluetooth, WiFi, Z-Wave, Z-Wave Plus, Zigbee |
