# Homey Self-Hosted Server on macOS | Megathread

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-macos-megathread/146435>\
**Category:** Homey Self-Hosted Server\
**Created:** [December 5, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-macos-megathread/146435 "2025-12-05T14:11:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Emile](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/emile/32/115314_2.png) [@Emile](https://community.homey.app/u/Emile)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-macos-megathread/146435/1 "2025-12-05T14:11:26Z")

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In this thread we can discuss running Homey Self-Hosted Server on macOS.

**Installation**

Learn how to [Install Homey Self-Hosted Server on macOS](https://support.homey.app/hc/en-us/articles/23975134909724-How-to-install-Homey-Self-Hosted-Server-on-macOS).

**Known Limitations**

None at this moment.

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**Author:** ![mbnn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/mbnn/32/36655_2.png) [@mbnn](https://community.homey.app/u/mbnn)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-macos-megathread/146435/2 "2025-12-17T15:19:16Z")

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I was trying to setup Cloudflare tunnel to my self hosted homey, but that gives:

While forward is working and set to localip:4859

![Screenshot 2025-12-17 at 16.18.46](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/8/e/8eb4c013e9ad646573ee588c07e838cc0252c0e5.png)

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**Author:** ![Dirk\_De\_Backer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dirk_de_backer/32/147980_2.png) [@Dirk\_De\_Backer](https://community.homey.app/u/Dirk_De_Backer)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 4:39pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-macos-megathread/146435/3 "2025-12-17T16:39:52Z")

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i can’t login to the server on my mac, my credentials are invalid. Or i’m stupid and have somewhere missed what i should fill in or there is a problem, I use my credentials (email+password) from my account.  
On the ios app al works fine

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**Author:** ![Emile](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/emile/32/115314_2.png) [@Emile](https://community.homey.app/u/Emile)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-macos-megathread/146435/4 "2025-12-17T17:02:43Z")

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The local web app requires a user with a local password.

Visit [https://my.homey.app](https://my.homey.app), navigate to Settings → Family & Guests to create a local username & password for your user.

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**Author:** ![marcel\_ridder](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/marcel_ridder/32/3771_2.png) [@marcel\_ridder](https://community.homey.app/u/marcel_ridder)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-macos-megathread/146435/5 "2025-12-17T17:23:05Z")

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Is there no memory limitation anymore? It can use the full memory of your mac?

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**Author:** ![Craig\_Gurrie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/craig_gurrie/32/60107_2.png) [@Craig\_Gurrie](https://community.homey.app/u/Craig_Gurrie)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 7:46pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-macos-megathread/146435/6 "2025-12-17T19:46:40Z")

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getting the following error

**You can’t use this version of the application “Homey Self-Hosted Server.app” with this version of macOS.**

Running Sequoia 15.6 on M2 Mac mini

Guess I’ll upgrade to Tahoe…..

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**Author:** ![Takrbacker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/takrbacker/32/148069_2.png) [@Takrbacker](https://community.homey.app/u/Takrbacker)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-macos-megathread/146435/7 "2025-12-18T15:24:59Z")

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I keep getting the Error: Not in Setup Mode. I had previously set up a self hosted server on my Mac, but then deleted it, but now won’t let me start over. How can I reestablish?

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**Author:** ![Kjell\_Blomberg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/kjell_blomberg/32/68738_2.png) [@Kjell\_Blomberg](https://community.homey.app/u/Kjell_Blomberg)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-macos-megathread/146435/8 "2025-12-18T16:37:18Z")

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Why is the memory allocated for the server limited to 4Gb in the Mac version ? I have 24 Gb in the Mac mini. If this is true and unable to increase the memory for the server I just wasted € 1500 for the Mac mini. In the Qnap version it shows the total memory of the Qnap device i.e in my case 8 Gb.

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**Author:** ![Kjell\_Blomberg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/kjell_blomberg/32/68738_2.png) [@Kjell\_Blomberg](https://community.homey.app/u/Kjell_Blomberg)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 8:53am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-macos-megathread/146435/9 "2025-12-21T08:53:38Z")

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I made a try with two setups. One one the QNAP NAS 8 Gb ram and one on a Mac mini 24Gb ram. I had as several others problems with low ram on my HP2023. The allocation of ram on the Mac seams to be capped to 4 Gb

 ![Mac Ram](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/9/2/926f83eaaf27f953d95bc60b23233e06927b4abe.jpeg)

The allocation on the Qnap are as I understand, what you have you get.

 ![Qnap Ram](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/d/0/d0441631950ae5d9763b09053a84d01a9230c384.jpeg)

The Qnap version is very stable.

The Mac version is a disaster, eating memory just increasing size for Homey up to 1 Gb before restarting the SHS on the Mac its back to around + 300 Mb but on Qnap its rock solid on approx. 250 Mb. Also after a restart on the SHS Server on the Mac several apps are not running so you need also to restart the inside the SHS app to get it to work.

So I don’t understand why the memory is capped on the Mac version.

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**Author:** ![Marc\_Jurriens](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/marc_jurriens/32/11951_2.png) [@Marc\_Jurriens](https://community.homey.app/u/Marc_Jurriens)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 10:48am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-macos-megathread/146435/10 "2025-12-21T10:48:34Z")

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If memory would be capped that would take away all the positives…

I expect that is more of a docker thing though.. I expect you can change that…

In the meantime I left my bed this morning at 06:15, it’s now 11:45 and I have migrated almost all my flows.

Only weird thing I encounter is that Indo not seem to be able to link the Alexa app … hope I can solve this since my home automation relies heavily on the speech Alexa does for me..

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**Author:** ![Jens\_Fiedler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jens_fiedler/32/120752_2.png) [@Jens\_Fiedler](https://community.homey.app/u/Jens_Fiedler)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-macos-megathread/146435/11 "2025-12-21T13:47:04Z")

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Same here on machining m4 with 26.2

Restarted the installation process several times. Always the same error. Funnily after some time meanwhile I have more than 5 self hosted servers in my account (even after deleting these) and still none of them working.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-macos-megathread/146435/12 "2025-12-21T14:09:13Z")

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> [@Kjell\_Blomberg](#):
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> So I don’t understand why the memory is capped on the Mac version.

Find the “config” or “edit” button on the Mac I’d say:

> [@Homey Self-Hosted Server with Docker on Linux | Megathread](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-with-docker-on-linux-megathread/146441/15):
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> however, if you run Docker on macOS, it will run inside a virtual machine that is, by default, limited to using 50% of available RAM, but that’s configurable).

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I just found a possible howto:

You can do this via the command line. For example, to change the machine to 2cpu/6144MB RAM run:

```auto
docker-machine stop
VBoxManage modifyvm default --cpus 2
VBoxManage modifyvm default --memory 6144
docker-machine start

```

You can then check your settings:

```auto
VBoxManage showvminfo default | grep Memory
VBoxManage showvminfo default | grep CPU

```

And for docker-machine inspect to report the correct state of things, edit ~/.docker/machine/machines/default/config.json to reflect your changes.  
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or by GUI, something similar to:

 ![Screenshot_20251221_151724_Firefox](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/4/2/4201aee3ee4441b768ba551dcf66f3b25dfd0413.jpeg)

Source:  
[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32834082/how-to-increase-docker-machine-memory-mac](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32834082/how-to-increase-docker-machine-memory-mac)

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**Author:** ![Kjell\_Blomberg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/kjell_blomberg/32/68738_2.png) [@Kjell\_Blomberg](https://community.homey.app/u/Kjell_Blomberg)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 9:13am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-macos-megathread/146435/13 "2025-12-22T09:13:30Z")

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So I did try to do this but I was not able to download the image to use for container.

Is there a guide for the setup ?

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**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 9:19am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-macos-megathread/146435/14 "2025-12-22T09:19:12Z")

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[https://support.homey.app/hc/en-us/articles/24010537261980-How-to-install-Homey-Self-Hosted-Server-with-Docker-on-Linux](https://support.homey.app/hc/en-us/articles/24010537261980-How-to-install-Homey-Self-Hosted-Server-with-Docker-on-Linux)

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**Author:** ![Takrbacker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/takrbacker/32/148069_2.png) [@Takrbacker](https://community.homey.app/u/Takrbacker)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2025, 4:26am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-macos-megathread/146435/15 "2025-12-24T04:26:53Z")

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I submitted a support ticket for this issue and this was the response I received:

_In the mobile app can you add it. There you can enter setup mode.  
If this also doesn’t work, I unfortunately can’t help you further as this is out of our scope. Please ask our [community](https://community.homey.app/) to find a proper solution._  
\*  
For now this is all I can do for you, which is why I’m closing your ticket.\*

#1: you can’t add the self-hosted server if the host doesn’t enter setup mode

#2: I was thinking about purchasing the new homey pro, but not if this is the support they offer, here’s a product, now you all go figure it out and fix it

NO

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 2:08am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-macos-megathread/146435/16 "2025-12-25T02:08:58Z")

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Uhm this is a user forum, just ask what you’d like to know and maybe you’ll get some help.  
Your “improvement propositions” really should be addressed to Athom 🤷‍♂️  
Merry Xmas and cheer up 🎄😉

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**Author:** ![Marc\_Jurriens](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/marc_jurriens/32/11951_2.png) [@Marc\_Jurriens](https://community.homey.app/u/Marc_Jurriens)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 5:33am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-macos-megathread/146435/17 "2025-12-25T05:33:14Z")

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This is meant in a positive way:

There is a reason the SHS was launched as a gift to “the nerds. Personally I think it is a great solution and it is already running and doing what it needs to do for me.

But I think you will notice that a level of knowledge on docker docker / self hosting wil be needed.

Be careful on doing this if you are not aware how this stuff works, the homey pro/mini/cloud/bridge are created to be used outing the box as a seamless experience.

SHS is not, it is also very new so some issues can be expected. Tread carefully !

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**Author:** ![footlooseboss](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/footlooseboss/32/149337_2.png) [@footlooseboss](https://community.homey.app/u/footlooseboss)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2025, 8:31am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-macos-megathread/146435/18 "2025-12-28T08:31:15Z")

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for far more control, probably far better performance, and almost certainly far less support, [docker](https://support.homey.app/hc/en-us/articles/24010537261980-How-to-install-Homey-Self-Hosted-Server-with-Docker-on-Linux) instructions + [orbstack](https://orbstack.dev/) (proprietary drop-in docker desktop for macOS) might be an alternative route

_possible side effects could include: seamless superior electron-free fruition, headaches, wasted Sunday afternoons_

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**Author:** ![Carsten\_Knobloch](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/carsten_knobloch/32/121334_2.png) [@Carsten\_Knobloch](https://community.homey.app/u/Carsten_Knobloch)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-macos-megathread/146435/19 "2025-12-28T18:27:47Z")

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Same here.

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**Author:** ![Jore\_Van\_Eetvelde](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jore_van_eetvelde/32/120728_2.png) [@Jore\_Van\_Eetvelde](https://community.homey.app/u/Jore_Van_Eetvelde)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-macos-megathread/146435/20 "2025-12-30T14:59:47Z")

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I’m experiencing an issue with the self-hosted Mac version of Homey. When I connect remotely, I run into connectivity problems. When I’m on the local network, it works much better.

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