Please send me an e-mail at emile [at] athom [dot] com.
Thereās a new version of the macOS app! 
This version has a built-in updater, so youāll be notified automatically once a new version of Homey Self-Hosted Server is available.
Instructions: https://support.homey.app/hc/en-us/articles/23975134909724-How-to-install-Homey-Self-Hosted-Server-on-macOS
Direct Download: https://shs-macos.homeycdn.net/releases/Homey-Self-Hosted-Server-latest.dmg
FYI The VM it runs is indeed capped to 4GB, which should be more than enough. If you exceed it, please let me know, we could always make it larger or configurable if itās really necessary.
Nice, thx @Emile ! On https://support.homey.app/hc/en-us/articles/23975134909724-How-to-install-Homey-Self-Hosted-Server-on-macOS it is explained how to create a backup. Can this be copied without stopping Homey SHS? Hengelo, isntāt there a risk that data gets corrupted when copying the files while Homey SHS is running?
Yeah itās better to stop it first, but in practice it shouldnāt matter that much.
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@Emile thanks, it works now! In my case, my Mac mini has 3 ways to connect with my network (USB - Ethernet, Wifi and Ethernet directly) I had the wrong one in the dropdown. Easy fix with the help of @Emile ā¦ Finally can play around with this now!
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Is there a different approach needed to connect to local login with the latest macOS version of SHS? I tried to access on my local network using the IP address of the Mac hosting SHS and get no response (āthe server where the page is located is not respondingā). Also I noticed that the Homey VM on the Mac seems to get its own IP address so I tried that and got the same error. I also noticed in the Homey iOS app when connected to SHS it has a .local URL which in my case is homey-shs.local so I tried that and got the same response.
From the machine Iām trying to access the local login from I can ping homey-shs.local and get a response from the IP address of the Homey VM on the Mac. Pinging that IP directly unsurprisingly also works.
Iām thinking maybe thereās something I have to do to a firewall on the host Mac or something?
EDIT: I think I worked out what the problem must be. I just have no idea how to solve it. I am running Tailscale on the Mac hosting SHS. I will try to verify by quitting Tailscale to see if that fixes the issue but thatās not a sustainable option for me.
EDIT 2: Nope, that wasnāt it. Quitting tailscale on the host Mac made no difference. Cannot even access local log in on the Mac thatās hosting Homey SHS. Iām going to http://192.168.1.208 in a browser on the same Mac (thatās the IP address copied from the Network menu item of Homey SHS).
Turning off the firewall on the host Mac also had no effect.
Any ideas very gratefully received
I am happy that my Homey server is running, but after several hours, it is switched off. So I thought it might be related due to energy settings of my Mac Miniā¦ These are my current settingsā¦ Any other suggestions settings to look at?
For anyone else finding the same problem as me with local login, I solved it in the end. Seems like the official instructions (https://support.homey.app/hc/en-us/articles/22924537226268-Using-Local-Users-on-Homey-Pro) are wrong. They say for access on local network you should just enter the IP address of the Homey SHS server. For me at least that does not work. Instead, I have to specify port 4859 (which is mentioned in the instructions as being needed when using port forwarding to access remotely).
After some further testing, this appears to be true with Homey SHS hosted as a Docker container on an RPi as well as on macOS. Accessing the local login for my Homey Pro 2023 on the local network does indeed work without specifying a port so it seems to be specific to SHS.
EDIT: Iāve submitted a support ticket to Athom so hopefully they can correct the support article (which also has the wrong title since it specifies Homey Pro but then is tagged as also applying to SHS, which it nearly does)
EDIT 2: Received a very quick response from Athom confirming they will update the knowledgebase article to correct this
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I still have Homey server going down, wanted to run diagnostic report, but got this errorā¦ Any suggestions (besides reaching out to support?)
check logs and share
Use the mobile app to create a diag.
Logging on mac mini is on, but not so long lasting and on mobile phone same error ādonāt overload meā
Hmm, itās device specific then, Wout.
Pro 2026 creates a system diag just fine @ mobile app.
Only in the web app I canāt enter anything, because the onscreen keyboard doesnāt get activated.
