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The Athom Homey Pro, the best flexible home automation solution

The Athom Homey Pro, the best flexible home automation solution

The Athom Homey Pro is a home automation controller manufactured by Athom B.V. based in The Netherlands to setup a smart home. It is the base station for your smart home to control devices and collect data from them (for example temperature or energy consumption). It is available as a standard model, Homey, and as Homey Pro. Homey manages 7 communication protocols such as for example Z-wave, Zigbee, infrared and wireless.

This makes it possible to connect some 50000 devices from approximately 1000 brands. It can be accessed via iOS and Android mobile apps or via your internet browser to control devices directly, define rule based scenarios to steer devices and insight in your energy consumption and sensor data.

How to control Homeseer devices with Homey?

How to control Homeseer devices with Homey?

Devices within the domotica software Homeseer can be controlled by Homey Pro, for example via Homey Flows. Remote control of Homeseer devices is done by making use of the JSON standard, a standardised text based data interchange format that uses human readable text to store and transmit data. Controlling Homeseer devices with Homey is not complicated.

IKEA Fyrtur Block-out roller blind

IKEA Fyrtur Block-out roller blind

Ikea curtain automatic up/down based on sun rise test install distance of contact to homey no remote or amplifier used flow what did work/not work   FYRTUR Block-out roller blind, wireless/battery-operated grey80x195 cm Block-out blinds blocks light from shining through and completely darkens your room.The blind comes prepaired with the remote control and the signal repeater. For the blinds wireless functions to work, the signal repeater (included in the package) needs to be plugged in to...

Better integration with Google Home speech

Better integration with Google Home speech

Google Nest Hub and a Google Mini can be used to give voice commands to initiate actions.

In this project I will investigate the possibilities of Google Home combined with our Homey Pro to maximise the use of voice commands to control our smart home.

How to monitor water consumption via Homey

How to monitor water consumption via Homey

Monitori water consumption of our analog Elster V200 water meter via Homey involved some puzzling to find the right equipment to fetch the pulses from the water meter and make them available in Homey. I decided to go for:
– Elster Falcon PR6 pulse reading module
– Youless Energy monitor LS120
It provides us now water consumption charts, waterflow charts and Homey flow possibilities to initiate actions. This article describes my journey to get the water consumption monitored via Homey.