I have been building a smart home for my daughter using Homey, and while designing the automations, I started thinking about something that I wanted to share as an idea — perhaps not a technical one, but something about what a smart home should be. My daughter is 32 and works as a surgeon. When she…

Yeah sure. Do you even have a Homey in the first place? [image] warning ATTENTION COMMUNITY: New AI-Assisted Spam Tactics Announcements warning ATTENTION COMMUNITY: New AI-Assisted Spam Tactics We have observed a surge in sophisticated spam accounts using AI …

Well, it’s a nice story. Yeah, could be written by or with help of AI. Nevertheless I think it holds some truth.

The story is completely true. Unfortunately, I don't speak English very well, and the translation from my native language—Romanian—into English was done by AI. It might not be translated exactly the way I originally wrote it.

Homey is a choice I made 3 months ago. I’m a beginner but I’m learning. I thought about my daughter’s smart home with many local functions, for this reason I use zwave a lot where I can make direct associations, so I don’t go through homey anymore. What is essential connects directly, what is non-es…

I understand your “possible future spammer alert”, as the post by Sorin is a peculiar first post. What I usually do is to try to distinguish a human user from AI, I always check the stats first: AI doesn’t read posts, doesn’t view topics, isn’t online for longer than a few minutes etc, and it crea…

It’s because there’s no Homey-specific words in the text. “Automations” for example, Homey doesn’t have automations, it has Flows. And “Scenes”, Scenes are a Hue thing, Homey calls them Moods, etc.

I see that my post bothers you, some people find it a strange post. I don’t know how AI would express certain feelings, but I see that you didn’t understand anything from it. I’m an electronics engineer and I’ve been working in industrial “AUTOMATIZATIONS” for many years. Did you catch the period wh…

A thought about smart homes: sometimes, not automating something is the right choice

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smarthomesven August 19, 2026, 7:20pm 2

Yeah sure. Do you even have a Homey in the first place?

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A thought about smart homes: sometimes, not automating something is the right choice

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