It is my understanding that SHS only works directly with the Homey Bridge for extra antennas, like Zigbee. Not with third party antennas. I read that other users use intermediary tools like Zigbee2MQTT and/or HA and then import the devices via the respective apps in Homey.
@Doekse Already confirmed that third party Thread Border Routers can be used with Homey SHS.
With additional tooling:
Homey Self-Hosted Server can indeed work with any Thread Border Router on the local network
Yes I did, two monitors, my home pro on the left with everything I had and homey SHS on the right…. I cleaned some stuff up along the way that was not used anymore and actually found some mistakes 
Correct. And for a reason also. Ease.
Not all dongles are equal, the homey bridge is propriety Athom and so is the homey software so they way they work together is optimal…
If you go for home assistant there is a larger plethora of different types of dongles you can use (and have to maintain). It’s a choice.
You could throw a dongle in a home assistant configuration, link your zwave/zigbee to that and then Mqtt that towards homey… but you would have to like doing that… installing the bridge is 2 seconds and it just works.
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You could use also:
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