Hi,
I have a Homey Pro and a Homey Bridge as part of a single installation. The bought the bridge to extend the range but thought it would also provide some resilience.
My Homey Pro lost power today. Should I have been able to use the Homey App on my mobile to administer the system? Because if I should have been able to, I wasn’t.
When you add a Homey Bridge to an implementation, is there any configuration needed? I simply added it in. It shows as any device does.
Many thanks.
Adding a Homey Bridge to you Homey Pro 23 (satellite mode) “just” adds another Zigbee router, Z-Wave router, 433 MHz antenna and IR transmitter.
That’s it. Your HP23 stays the “heart” or your system.
If you mean by “resilience” that the Bridge functions as some kind of backup or workaround for when you HP23 is offline or malfunctions: no, that is not how it works…
If your HP23 looses power, you won’t be able to use your Homey app and everything that is automated by your HP23 at all.
Thank you. That makes sense.
It is kind of what I suspected, but I had hoped it would have more capabilities.
Do you need to do anything with it apart from adding it to work in satellite mode?
Thanks again.
No, not really.
If you add a 433MHz or IR device, you can choose which antenna/transmitter should be used for that device: HP23 or the Bridge.
With Zigbee or Z-Wave the Bridge just adds as any other router (like a socket of light bulb).
Thanks again. 
