I am not. I do have Google home but to be honest, I don’t use it much.
OK I had some device paired to apple home and some to my Aqara hub, once they were paired to my Apple Thread network everything worked
I have managed to install docker and have homey running in docker. When I go to the homey app it can’t find the ip address of the self hosted server. Docker has a different ip address than my Mac? Do I need to change a setting in docker
That depends on how you setup your docker.. ip could be shared with the host or could have its own… If you go into the console of the docker you could do an ifconfig to see what it is…
If that all is unknown then we need to get you the commands but honoustly: in that case think about if shs is the way for you…
Hi Marc
Forgive my lack of knowledge, I have never used docker and this is the first time, can you tell me how to do the ifconfig in docker. I have managed to do the plex server, sonnarr, raddarr and liddar on the mac, with a little guidance im pretty sure i can get this working as well 
Interesting. I hope you do note that Homey SHS is considered a DIY solution and your current setup isn’t among the known setups for Homey Self Hosted Server. For Mac OS there is an app that you can use, but you chose to manually run the docker container on MacOS, so the known setup “Docker on Linux” might come closest.
Please be aware that support for this specific installation (also from the Community) can get quite complicated. To try out Homey SHS, that might work. But think again before you start setting things up and start “depending” on it.
To start: How did you install? Do you use a docker compose file? what’s the content?
Hi
The reason I’m using docker is that I have a Mac with an intel chip which can’t run the homey app. The only way I can run this is via docker. I have run the command in terminal and appears to be working. I will need to wait till I get home tonight to see if I can connect to server with my phone, fingers crossed.
If it’s up and running you can reach it per https://my.homey.app as well, Paul, but only if you accessed it per mobile app at least once, for HSHS to have it registered.
Both interfaces can access Homeys from anywhere.
Hi Peter
I appreciate the quick reply, it’s telling me it up and running, once I’m back home later on tonight fingers crossed, when I go to the homey app on my phone, it will connect this time 
Hi, new to Homey. Trying the 1 moth free self hosted on a Mac mini M4 with the latest macOS.The Homey app stays open in the menu bar, but after some time the iPhone app cant reach the self hosted homey when I’m away from home. As soon as I return home and log into the Mac, Homey immediately becomes reachable again. Is Homey Self-Hosted on macOS supposed to work fully in the background with the session locked, or does it currently depend on an active user session?
Here’s an easy test: log out from your Mac and check if it still works. Then check if it still works after 15 minutes or so. If it still works, then no, it doesn’t depend on an active user session.
I tested it.
When I quit the Homey Self-Hosted Server app, Homey immediately goes offline, both on Wi-Fi and mobile data.
I also tried logging out of macOS, not just locking the screen. Homey went offline as well.
So it seems that, at least on my Mac, Homey Self-Hosted only works while the app is running inside an active macOS user session. It does not seem to run as a background daemon/service after logout.
Is this expected behaviour?
If you quit an application, either directly (by quitting it) or by logging out (which stops all your active applications), then I would think it’s expected, yes. Locking the screen will keep your applications, including the Homey app, running.
It would make more sense to run as some sort of background process, but I’m sure that has been considered and dismissed for some reason.
