# Homey Self-Hosted Server on Raspberry Pi | Megathread **URL:** \ **Category:** Homey Self-Hosted Server\ **Created:** [December 5, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-raspberry-pi-megathread/146433 "2025-12-05T14:09:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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, 2:09pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-raspberry-pi-megathread/146433/1 "2025-12-05T14:09:05Z")
In this thread we can discuss running Homey Self-Hosted Server on Rasperry Pi. ## Installation Learn how to [Install Homey Self-Hosted Server on Raspberry Pi](https://support.homey.app/hc/en-us/articles/23975075444124-How-to-install-Homey-Self-Hosted-Server-on-Raspberry-Pi). ## Known Limitations None at this moment. ---
**Author:** ![Aman\_Saroha](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/aman_saroha/32/121047_2.png) [@Aman\_Saroha](https://community.homey.app/u/Aman_Saroha)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-raspberry-pi-megathread/146433/2 "2025-12-17T16:20:27Z")
Can I use sonoff zigbee dongle with the self hosted server? ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_West](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/martin_west/32/47625_2.png) [@Martin\_West](https://community.homey.app/u/Martin_West)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 9:27pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-raspberry-pi-megathread/146433/3 "2025-12-17T21:27:02Z")
Hi. Any idea why “self-hosted server” don’t show up, when I select “Add new Homey”? I only have the option: Homey Pro, Homey Pro mini, and previous generations, and off course the “Addons” Homey bridge and energy dongle. ---
**Author:** ![Henk\_Renting](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/henk_renting/32/87634_2.png) [@Henk\_Renting](https://community.homey.app/u/Henk_Renting)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 9:54pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-raspberry-pi-megathread/146433/4 "2025-12-17T21:54:06Z")
Have you updated your Homey (Android/iOS) app to (at least) v9.6.6 yet? ![1000032595](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/9/a/9a7962923eca0511a9120ba450d4300d52de6238.jpeg) Then you should be able to add your SHS to the Homey app. ---
**Author:** ![Ogiewon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/ogiewon/32/148168_2.png) [@Ogiewon](https://community.homey.app/u/Ogiewon)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-raspberry-pi-megathread/146433/5 "2025-12-18T17:04:45Z")
First time Homey user. I had a Raspberry Pi 4 in a drawer, so I thought I’d give the new Homey Self Hosted Server a spin. I have used many other smart home systems over the years (X10, SmartThings, Wink, Iris, Hubitat, Home Assistant, etc.) and always curious to try additional ones. So, this recent Self Hosted Server came as a nice surprise. I was able to get Homey SHS up and running on my RPi 4 with 8GB RAM, a 64GB uSD card, and Ethernet connection. I added this Homey server to the Homey mobile app on my iPhone without any issue. So far, so good. There is one oddity, though… Perhaps this is a new user thing, or perhaps it is related to the new SHS software? 🤔 On the Homey Mobile app’s main screen (i.e. Home is selected at the bottom) the title is displaying “Home Self-Hosted Server”. Just below that, it displays a temperature and “Few Clouds”. The temperature value is way too high, and is changing periodically to other crazy values. Right now it shows the temperature as 1038 degrees F. Does anyone know what is up with that crazy temperature reading? Thanks! Looking forward to playing around with the Homey platform. UPDATE: It appears the built-in weather data has corrected itself and is now reporting the local weather data properly. UPDATE 2: Back to crazy temperatures. 🤷‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![Filip\_Argy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/filip_argy/32/123115_2.png) [@Filip\_Argy](https://community.homey.app/u/Filip_Argy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-raspberry-pi-megathread/146433/6 "2025-12-18T21:58:40Z")
First time Homey user also. I guess Raspberry Pi 3 Model B is not supported right? As it has a 64bit CPU but it is not officially listed. ---
**Author:** ![Pascal\_Nuti](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/pascal_nuti/32/124397_2.png) [@Pascal\_Nuti](https://community.homey.app/u/Pascal_Nuti)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-raspberry-pi-megathread/146433/7 "2025-12-20T14:05:23Z")
![IMG_20251220_145818756_HDR](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/7/7/776259e9875b6f8aec26d77cd4399748806fd42b.jpeg) I’m not able to login after a clean install on Raspberry 5, someone had sucsess ? ---
**Author:** ![Pascal\_Nuti](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/pascal_nuti/32/124397_2.png) [@Pascal\_Nuti](https://community.homey.app/u/Pascal_Nuti)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-raspberry-pi-megathread/146433/8 "2025-12-20T14:05:56Z")
Here is my apk picture … ![Screenshot_20251220-145633.Homey](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/5/d/5d0a2b889480dccbc25401fce27a886c985566b6.png) ---
**Author:** ![Vibs](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/vibs/32/123721_2.png) [@Vibs](https://community.homey.app/u/Vibs)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-raspberry-pi-megathread/146433/9 "2025-12-21T15:37:07Z")
I was looking forward to testing this out on my new Raspberry Pi 5. But I will use Home Assistant instead for now. The only reason for this is that I cannot use the built-in Bluetooth module of the Pi 5 with Homey Self Hosted Server. While this works out of the box with Home Assistant, on Homey Self Hosted Server I always get the message that I have to purchase the Homey Bridge for this. Well, no I don’t. Just do what Home Assistant does and make the bluetooth module of the Raspberry Pi 5 available in Homey. I would be very willing to pay the lifetime fee for Homey, but I am absolutely not going spend additional money on a bridge which I do not need. What is the point of making Homey available on different systems if the onboard capabilities of those systems cannot be used? So now I won’t be buying anything from Homey - neither the subscription nor the bridge. ---
**Author:** ![Gertjan\_Schuttert](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/gertjan_schuttert/32/30200_2.png) [@Gertjan\_Schuttert](https://community.homey.app/u/Gertjan_Schuttert)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-raspberry-pi-megathread/146433/10 "2025-12-23T19:41:20Z")
I have tried to instal HomeySHS on an usb stick but it don’t work does somebody have an idee what to do? ---
**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 24, 2025, 3:24am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-raspberry-pi-megathread/146433/11 "2025-12-24T03:24:49Z")
I suggest to try one of the 12 documented ways, GertJan. A USB dongle isn’t one of them: [https://support.homey.app/hc/en-us/search?page=1&query=server&utf8=✓#results](https://support.homey.app/hc/en-us/search?page=1&query=server&utf8=%E2%9C%93#results) ---
**Author:** ![BigSniffer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/bigsniffer/32/148769_2.png) [@BigSniffer](https://community.homey.app/u/BigSniffer)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-raspberry-pi-megathread/146433/12 "2025-12-25T22:27:15Z")
I tried upgrading my RPi install to the latest version this morning, but it refuses to come back up. I’m not great with Linux - would some kind person be able to give me some pointers please? Here’s what’s in the log: > #####@homey-pi:~ $ journalctl -u homey-shs.service -n 1000 -f > Dec 25 22:12:51 homey-pi systemd[1]: Starting homey-shs.service - Homey Self-Hosted Server… > Dec 25 22:13:34 homey-pi docker[1050]: latest: Pulling from athombv/homey-shs > Dec 25 22:13:38 homey-pi docker[1050]: Digest: sha256:5385f2d8a558a9707013c70e51df792fa4c50471c177c897114e4acbdea12413 > Dec 25 22:13:38 homey-pi docker[1050]: Status: Image is up to date for [Package homey-shs · GitHub](http://ghcr.io/athombv/homey-shs:latest) > Dec 25 22:13:38 homey-pi docker[1050]: [Package homey-shs · GitHub](http://ghcr.io/athombv/homey-shs:latest) > Dec 25 22:13:38 homey-pi docker[1068]: Error response from daemon: No such container: homey-shs > Dec 25 22:13:38 homey-pi docker[1078]: Error response from daemon: No such container: homey-shs > Dec 25 22:13:38 homey-pi systemd[1]: Started homey-shs.service - Homey Self-Hosted Server. > Dec 25 22:15:41 homey-pi systemd[1]: homey-shs.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=139/n/a > Dec 25 22:15:41 homey-pi systemd[1]: homey-shs.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Garrett\_Gauthier](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/garrett_gauthier/32/121867_2.png) [@Garrett\_Gauthier](https://community.homey.app/u/Garrett_Gauthier)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 9:29pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-raspberry-pi-megathread/146433/13 "2025-12-31T21:29:47Z")
Using PI image creator I followed the instructions to build a PI version of homey. But there is no container built. The homey-shs.service starts, pulls the image but fails at no container exists. The directory /home-shs exists but is blank. ---
**Author:** ![BigSniffer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/bigsniffer/32/148769_2.png) [@BigSniffer](https://community.homey.app/u/BigSniffer)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 11:29am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-raspberry-pi-megathread/146433/14 "2026-01-02T11:29:27Z")
I also had trouble. Have you tried looking at the logs (instructions on the Homey RPi web page)? From memory I had to restart docker to re-initiate the pull. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2026, 5:38am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-raspberry-pi-megathread/146433/18 "2026-01-05T05:38:28Z")
You could have just removed your post instead. (in no way meant as what you think is “rude” 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![Eric\_Welch](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/eric_welch/32/150347_2.png) [@Eric\_Welch](https://community.homey.app/u/Eric_Welch)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2026, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-raspberry-pi-megathread/146433/19 "2026-01-05T13:18:23Z")
Thanks for the tip! ---
**Author:** ![Zain81](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/zain81/32/150703_2.png) [@Zain81](https://community.homey.app/u/Zain81)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2026, 11:04am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-raspberry-pi-megathread/146433/20 "2026-01-10T11:04:12Z")
Hi everyone, I’m running Homey SHS on a Raspberry Pi with a Homey Bridge. Everything is working well so far, but I’m trying to create a proper backup. I’ve tried Rufus, BalenaEtcher, and a few other methods, but I’m not sure what the correct backup approach is. Is there an official or recommended way to back up Homey SHS? Also, is any kind of cloud backup supported? Additionally, I couldn’t find the /homey-shs/ folder on my system. Any guidance would be appreciated. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2026, 2:34pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-raspberry-pi-megathread/146433/21 "2026-01-10T14:34:42Z")
> [@Zain81](#): > > Is there an official or recommended way to back up Homey SHS? No. You’d use the available possibilities to backup linux files. I’ve read some posts about ‘live’ backups, but it looks like you’d temporary turn off Homey SHS in order to backup it’s files. This can be automated with bash scripts though. > [@Zain81](#): > > Also, is any kind of cloud backup supported? Not by Athom. > [@Zain81](#): > > couldn’t find the /homey-shs/ folder homey-shs is a hidden folder → these start with a dot: `./homey-shs` In GUI file explorers you have to enable ‘show hidden files’ to view hidden folders and files. ---
**Author:** ![Christopher\_Vetrano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@Christopher\_Vetrano](https://community.homey.app/u/Christopher_Vetrano)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 2:41pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-raspberry-pi-megathread/146433/22 "2026-01-13T14:41:41Z")
I’m having issues adding Matter devices to my Homey Self Hosted Server on my raspberry pi 5. Is there any update on this? It just hangs and does not let me add anything with matter. ---
**Author:** ![Ton\_van\_Rijnsoever](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/ton_van_rijnsoever/32/6351_2.png) [@Ton\_van\_Rijnsoever](https://community.homey.app/u/Ton_van_Rijnsoever)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-raspberry-pi-megathread/146433/23 "2026-01-15T13:18:00Z")
Hello, yesterday I received a message that there is an update for SHS (Version 12.11.0). My SHS is version 12.10.1 and runs on an RPI. I disconnected the RPI from power several times to install the update, but without success. Are other users experiencing this issue? [Next page](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-self-hosted-server-on-raspberry-pi-megathread/146433.md?page=2)