Inquiry About Using Homey Pro and Homey Bridge in My Home

Questions & Help
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Hello,

I live in a three-story house and have various smart devices that connect via different protocols, including Wi-Fi, Zigbee, and Z-Wave Plus, as well as devices that rely on IR, such as air conditioners, TVs, speakers, and curtains.

I am facing coverage issues with a single Homey Pro 2023, as it only covers the Wi-Fi area. I would like to know if it’s possible to use one Homey Pro 2023 with several Homey Bridges, for example, five in total, distributed across the rooms.

My questions are:

  1. Can I have one Homey Pro 2023 and five Homey Bridges spread throughout the house?
  2. How will the connection between the Homey Pro 2023 and Homey Bridges work? Is it cloud-based or local?
  3. If it relies on the cloud, I prefer a local setup. What options do I have for devices that can be connected to Homey Pro 2023 to ensure complete coverage in my home?

Thank you for your assistance.

Best regards,

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Please read these articles, specially the principles of the MESH networks:

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And this one

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Never heard of a limit, to be sure I’d recommend to inform @ support.

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Sort of local only

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If you intend to use it only for Zigbee or Z-Wave, it’s not building it’s own mesh, it just acts as a quite expensive Zigbee / Z-Wave router, like almost any mains powered Zigbee / Z-Wave device.
Imho you’d better just buy mains powered Zigbee / Z-Wave devices to extend the network mesh in that case.

If you’d like to have learning-enabled satellite IR transmitters, you can consider using Broadlink RM3 mini, Or RM4
My RM3 mini connects through LAN here.
And its not expensive.