If you've ever tried to manage a smart home with a bunch of different brands, you know it can be frustrating. Homey aims for everyone to play nicely together.
Anyone who’s ever added smart home devices to their house knows you need to choose wisely, since some smart home gadgets don’t mix so well with certain digital assistant devices or some kinds of home hubs or bridges. There is a device, however, that aims to link disparate smart home gadgets and systems together and get them all working in sync, regardless of brand or technology. Meet Homey.
Homey also touts its system as privacy-first since there are no microphones inside the system and no Homey devices are listening to you. Put simply, all your smart home gadgets — whether they’re Philips Hue, Google Nest, Ring, or Belkin — would connect to the Homey Bridge instead of their own hubs or bridges, which are themselves wireless beacons that link a smart device to your home’s Wi-Fi system.
Homey Flow is similar to IFTTT in that it lets you create a series of automated rules that tie disparate devices together, no matter which brand or technology. For example, the company says you can “always dim lights in the bedroom when the drapes close” or “automatically turn the thermostat down, turn off the lights and enable the alarm when I lock the front door.
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