Athom Homey Bridge

convenience, broad community, just gives you the extra flexibility to get the behavior of your domotics just right

One hub for all. Although the Homey is more than a hub. It is a complete smart home. 8 antennas for connectivity with many types of devices. But for me the most important thing is the flows. The ease with which you can create flows without programming skills. I started with Apple Home. Fine, but soon ran into limitations with devices that were not compatible. Homey can even talk to my dishwasher, washing machine and click-on-click-off. And all this without the use of extra hubs. There is still more for me to discover.

The WiFi of the homey works well, but sometimes it drops out without recovering. I am not alone in this experience. 2 colleagues have the same experience. Advice: buy an extra Ethernet adapter.

It is a very versatile device that can handle many devices. But nowadays most products are suitable for thread of matter and I bought the Homey to connect precisely those products that are not. As examples: the airco unit (Daikin), Brel TopDownBottomUp curtains and Somfy sun screen control. But now those devices work very awkwardly in terms of operation in Homey. The airco control is very confusing in Homey, the Brel TDBU are reversed in the Homey app and then do not work via Matter in Apple and Google Home systems. So, nice for the flows and automations, but for me it adds very little in terms of ease of use and functionality compared to existing Home systems.