I’m a new beta tester of the homey app, before purchasing homey bridge or homey pro.
I understood the homey app can be used without any homey device. It’s indeed working for my philips hue lights, but I don’t manage to install any other appli, like yamaha (AV Receiver), broadlink (RM4), which doesn’t need the bridge theoretically
Do you now why? Would it work if I purchase un Homey Bridge?
There are several reasons:
No, you’re going to need a Homey Pro for these apps.
Thank you for the answer.
For example, the SOMFY RTS apps does not work. So it means it does not work neither which the Homey Bridge, which claims being compatible with SOMFY RTS…
Is this right?
The Somfy RTS app doesn’t say it’s compatible with Homey Cloud, which would mean it won’t work with a Bridge either. I don’t know where it says the Bridge is compatible with Somfy RTS.
Somfy RTS is an RF protocol app. So one day Athom may decide to make it compatible with the bridge. but currently it is not. Athom may also expect Somfy to build something. If Somy will they will probably make it a cloud connection to their Tahoma bridge. Them implementing Somfy RTS is not think likely as Homey then competes with their Tahoma product.
Perhaps tell the reseller that their info is wrong 
Or maybe they forgot to add "soon™ " 
Not sure to understand the purpose of the bridge then if you can not use most of the apps of the homey pro.
And you have to buy it without knowing what you’ll be able to do…
I told the french reseller btw
It’s a “lowest common denominator” device: limited in its use, supports most of the devices that regular folks have (a few smart lightbulbs, a few smart switches, etc), and it’s cheap. It’s expressly not meant for people that want to control every aspect of their (smart) home or want more advanced features.
Well, if you’re really diligent, you check all the apps for each of the devices you want to control to see if that app has Homey Cloud/Beta support.
Fwiw: Somfy RTS should work on the bridge now.
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