Frequently Asked Questions
Q0: Does this app work on my Homey?
A1: Homey Pro: YES
A2: Homey (Early 2016): YES
A3: Homey (Early 2018): YES
A4: Homey (Early 2019): YES
A5: Homey Cloud (Bridge): NO (Status: checking with Athom)A6.1: All old Homey’s are Pro now. (The white ball) Only with less cpu and memory.
A6.2: HOMEY is now a cloud service you can run free or with subscription and a Bridge as a local antenna.
Q1: What is the purpose of this app?
A1: With this app it’s possible to gain insights in your Synology DiskStation
A2: Next to that it’s possible to shutdown and start your DiskStation from Homey.
A3: This app is not meant for Surveillance Station features, There’s already an app for that.
Q2: My HDD is not hibernating
A1: This app calls the Synology API. This will function the same as opening DSM, so it will wake-up your HDD
A2: To prevent waking up you can disable auto-update in the device settings.
A3: To keep getting updates, but minimize the HDD hibernation wake-up you can use theupdate dataflowcard/button
Q3: My Synology doesn’t restart/power ON
A1: This requires Wake On Lan to be enabled in your DSM:
DSM → control panel → hardware & power → WOL on lan 1
A2: Get the mac address:
DSM → control panel → info center → network → Lan 1 → mac address.
A3: : Fill this mac address in the device settings in Homey
