2024 the best home automation hub review
Price: $397.99
(as of Nov 04, 2024 16:39:09 UTC - Details)
Warranty & Support
Feedback
Product Description
YOUR HOME CONNECTED: Unify your smart home devices with Homey Pro. Manage your entire home from anywhere in the world. Control and automate your devices, view real-time and historical energy usage and receive sensor alerts.
YOUR HOME, YOUR RULES: Make all your devices work together seamlessly with Homey Flow. Switch your entire home off with the push of a button. Automatically play music when you arrive home. Create Flows right within the Homey app on your phone, or create Advanced Flows in the Homey Web App.
THE BRANDS YOU LOVE: Homey Pro works with over 50,000 devices from more than 1,000 brands. Take your pick from the likes of Sonos, Philips Hue, Kwikset, Govee, Aqara, TP-Link, iRobot, Ecobee, Spotify Connect, IKEA, Yale, LG, Dyson, Withings, Shelly, Somfy and many more. Thanks to Homey’s open platform, new devices are added daily, and Homey Pro supports both Official and Community-built Homey Apps. Visit the Homey website to check all the supported brands.
SEVEN(!) TECHNOLOGIES IN ONE LOCAL-FIRST HUB: Homey Pro features Wi-Fi, Zigbee, Z-Wave Plus, Infrared, BLE, Matter and Thread. That’s more protocols than any other smart home hub. These are all controlled locally: Homey Pro processes everything on-premise. Your data is stored on Homey Pro itself, and cloud-dependency is minimalized.
POWERFUL ENERGY SAVINGS: Automate your home to save energy, or schedule your usage according to solar generation or dynamic tariffs. Save on your energy bill without losing any comfort.
Reviewer: Ramon Padilla
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The Best Home Automation Hub
Review: I got rid of all my hubs, this one is superb. Not perfect, it started in Europe so many devices on this side of the ocean are still not supported but there is a great community making things happen. As for my setup, only some motion sensors not working. Pairing devices is a snap, very responsive.
Reviewer: Sandy
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Regret buying it. Please read before making the same mistake I did.
Review: I recently bought a new home in June of 2023 and immediately started converting everything to smart tech. As anyone who has done this knows, this means ending up with devices controlled/linked to multiple apps/protocols.I watched all the social media influencers videos about Homey Pro and thought it would be my best option by far for me. But it most definitely wasn't!Most of my devices (Tuya, SONOFF/Ewelink controlled) do not have legit Homey Pro apps.When I went to the Homey forums for assistance/guidance, what I discovered is basically almost all of the community app creators/coders have abandoned Homey and gone back to Home Assistant and all of their community Homey apps are now just abandoned and not being upgraded/updated. At this point, there is literally one guy on the forums who tries to assist and no one else.When it come to SONOFF devices, they claim to have an official app, but it has next to no devices added and when I reached out to them (via email) to ask them to add my SONOFF T5 TX Ultimate smart switches (I have over ten of them in my home), they told me it wasn't on their list of what they are adding and they wouldn't add it any time soon.They do not have working apps or community creators/coders to add Tuya devices, and even when they claim to have an "official" app like for SONOFF, it's very limited to a handful of devices and they refuse to assist in adding new devices when a customer makes a request.In addition, reaching directly out to Homey Pro is completely useless, they never reply. Sadly, they have taken advantage of sending their products to many social media influencers for review and received less that completely honest/educated reviews which clearly miss lead buyers like myself and the many more dozens who have taken their time to leave similar reviews/warnings.I have so many projects going on with my new home and life so I made the mistake of not opening and setting up the Homey Pro right away and by the time I realized I had been scammed, it was too late to return it :(.
Reviewer: jesse cleary
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: High Ticket, Big Disappointment
Review: I was very nervous on spending a lot on this smart home hub. After seeing screenshots of its UI, I needed to have it. I loved the graphs and reports on how and when devices reported, like seeing how temperature measures throughout the day. I loved the way the smart phone app looked. It seemed very user friendly. I was, however, extremely disappointed by the lack of automations that you can create. Processes that seemed so simple, were not existent. I have over 200 smart home devices, and had I transferred everything over, I would have lost half of my automations. Some of the devices I did transfer were missing features that my previous systems had.This may be a good for basic users who simply just use their phone to turn devices on and off. If you create a wide range of automations, I would steer far away, regardless of how simply and great the âflowsâ process looks. It is extremely limited and lackluster.
Reviewer: Austin M
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Powerful but limited integrations
Review: Iâve been wanting to get a homey ever since I first saw it in 2019 but they were limited to EU. The homey pro allowed me to replace multiple hubs and gives me very nice advanced abilities with a nice ui without 100s of lines of yaml code like HA.That said the integration claims are way over exaggerated and there isnât a strong marketplace yet for products that are primarily US based. This will just come with time and the system is open enough for companies and devs to easily expand it.Iâm not sure I would recommend this to anyone who isnât technically inclined. Itâs kinda pricey but remember no subscription and all local. Companies like Arlo make their devices so cheap and handicap them without a subscription. Because they rely on network they are vulnerable to hacks, high network usage and useless without internet.Overall, nice device with lots of capabilities and potential for growth. Iâve scoured the internet for a device like this and this is pretty much it unless you love writing yaml and like bad uis.
Reviewer: Kevin
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Tried setting it up, would not connect to wifi.Retrying multiple times, finally got it to connect but stuck infinitely at updating software prompt. Disappointed and have started my return.
Reviewer: Gino Bellavance
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Thank
Customers say
Customers like the ease of use of the remote control. They mention it's user-friendly and easy to set up simple or complex automations. However, some customers have reported issues with functionality and responsiveness. They also dislike the user interface. Opinions are mixed on device support and value for money.
AI-generated from the text of customer reviews