Okay, I got a bit itchy hehe…
That’s why I wrote:
I thought it was not necessary to add “nothing personal” to it. It is not personal at all 
I’ve an old NUC with Debian OS, and run a VirtualBox image of Home assistant on it, all pretty straightforward to set up, but do not use zigbee with that yet.
When you add a zigbee stick and add a zigbee integration, that’s almost it. Pair all zigbee devices with it, and install the community Home Assistant app on Homey.
Then, you can add all supported zigbee devices to Homey and use them like they are native Homey devices.
See also this thread, but it is in Dutch:
