Sorry to hear that Lee. Would you be prepared to put the app into a public repo before you go so that we can pick it up and keep it going until the hopeful day when the official app starts to support more products?
For anyone interested I contacted Homey support as itâs now been two weeks since the apps release and my device is still not pairing. Dreo confirmed only the following products are supported in the Homey App.
DR-HEC005S
DR-HEC006S
DR-HTF021AS
DR-HTF024S
DR-HPF015S
DR-HPF017S
DR-HAC005S
DR-HAC006S
DR-HAC008S
They didnât provide a timeframe for when support for more devices will be added.
Thatâs really frustrating. Looks like they only provided support for their newest models, and not for any existing models that most people would likely have already. Great way to disappoint your loyal customers who have multiple devices already Even my most recent purchase of a DR-HPF008S didnât make that list.
Fortunately the rest of my Dreo devices work with the community app, so I only have one device that doesnât work with either.
Ditto. Bought mine last week so hardly a discontinued model! I got the same list from Dreo support. Apparently it âtruly appreciates my understandingâ - donât know where it got that idea from.
It is kind of a mick take when a community written app by one bloke at home in the space of a week or two offers more comparability/functionality than the official app written by the manufacturer, and that we waited months for. Colour me not impressed.
I donât know for sure but Iâd guess the community app was built on top of the reverse-engineered community API implemented for the Home Assistant Dreo unofficial integration whereas the official Dreo app is clearly implemented on top of their official API. So to extend their app, Dreo would have to extend their the scope of their official API and that would extend their support costs. So I guess they want that to pay for itself in new device sales. Personally I think thatâs a naive strategy that wonât work but thatâs by the by.
It would have been great if the author of the community homey app had opened the source before they left the community but actually if someone has a spare day and a Claude account itâs probably not a huge lift to build a new Homey community app wrapped around the existing unofficial API linked above. Especially now Homey supports python (which that is). If nobody beats me to it, I might well do this myself if the existing community app ever stops working or I want to extend it. But I donât have the spare time right now.
If someone does have a go at this, please please put it in an open repo!
Annoying that they are just supporting their new products, bought a fan and humidifier back end of last year to add to the heater I already had after comments that they were bringing out an official app thinking I could use them in some automations. Goes to show, never buy on the promise that something is coming down the line, maybe the Homey guys can encourage them to add their other products or change their YouTube short announcing that Dreo now works with Homey to works with Homey if you have their latest products