Say hello to Homey Portal, a sleek smart home controller with a round 2.8-inch touchscreen wrapped in a stainless steel ring. Assign it to a zone, and it controls everything you’ve connected there, with a tap or a twist. Anyone in the room can use it. You can pre-order Homey Portal today, at an in…

It’s 2.8 inches, or 7.1 cm, diagonally. Good to note as well that the screw holes should line up with a standard flush-mounting box, as commonly used throughout Europe.

Thanks! I really wonder what drove the decision for this dimension. Hope this will be covered in the podcast. The device itself looks really premium. I understand there are many different flush boxes (round, square, rectangular) however it feels not right to print/use a backplate if someone has the…

Normally you screw the baseplate on the flush mount. And the screw holes align. There is an opening in the backplate to guide the cable into the flush mount (if I see it correctly on the images), so you can mount it w/o a visible cable.

Yes I saw that too. A flush mount box is 80mm and the portal 71mm. I pre-ordered one out of curiosity anyway, even though I am not 100% convinced yet and doubt the backplate will cover on the flush mount box out of the box :grin: @Doekse can you show us an example how it looks on the flush mount b…

The screen is 2.8 inch, the device itself will be a little bit bigger because of the rotating ring and bezel. The tiny hands in all the pictures do make it seem a lot bigger then 2.8 inch though :joy:

Saw the video, looked interesting. Saw the price, immediately lost all interest. € 250,- is beyond ridiculous… ‘Hey Siri, turn on the lights!’ is way cheaper and faster…

Did I miss something, or is this €299 thing really permanently tethered to a cable? I would expect something at this price to be genuinely PORTAbLe. Something I can carry around the room, have next to me on the couch while relaxing and listening to music, then move to my desk while working. At the e…

You’ll be able to control all of them, or group them right in the Lights App, or create specific shortcut with the chosen lights that can be opened from the homescreen.

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Visible and tactile … Improving what?

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