# \[Modding\] Various Homey Pro (Early 2023) Modification suggestions **URL:** \ **Category:** Off-Topic\ **Tags:** homey-pro-2023, modding\ **Created:** [April 19, 2023, 3:35pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/modding-various-homey-pro-early-2023-modification-suggestions/79487 "2023-04-19T15:35:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**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:** [June 15, 2023, 2:34pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/modding-various-homey-pro-early-2023-modification-suggestions/79487/101 "2023-06-15T14:34:44Z")
> [@RogerSt](#): > > There was a promotion somewhere to buy ‘backup’ for the next 5 or 10 years From what I recall it was a ‘present’ for the power adapter troubles ? ---
**Author:** ![Caseda](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/caseda/32/138695_2.png) [@Caseda](https://community.homey.app/u/Caseda)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 3:18pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/modding-various-homey-pro-early-2023-modification-suggestions/79487/102 "2023-06-15T15:18:17Z")
10 years was a black Friday sale, and is long gone. The instead of an adapter was only ~~2 or 3~~ 1 year for free. ---
**Author:** ![RogerSt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rogerst/32/12432_2.png) [@RogerSt](https://community.homey.app/u/RogerSt)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 4:13pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/modding-various-homey-pro-early-2023-modification-suggestions/79487/103 "2023-06-15T16:13:40Z")
I do not recall exactly, but thanks! ---
**Author:** ![RogerSt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rogerst/32/12432_2.png) [@RogerSt](https://community.homey.app/u/RogerSt)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 4:13pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/modding-various-homey-pro-early-2023-modification-suggestions/79487/104 "2023-06-15T16:13:58Z")
So at present, it is either a 1-year deal, or hoping that the next black Friday deal is similar to last year. ---
**Author:** ![Caseda](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/caseda/32/138695_2.png) [@Caseda](https://community.homey.app/u/Caseda)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/modding-various-homey-pro-early-2023-modification-suggestions/79487/105 "2023-06-15T17:06:34Z")
in short, yes. Black Friday is still far away though (end of november), but no one knows if they will do the same deal then. The 10 years does stack, so if you buy the year deal now, and you buy the 10 year later (if it comes with black friday) it will be 10,5 years still left. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorBazinga](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/doctorbazinga/32/39686_2.png) [@DoctorBazinga](https://community.homey.app/u/DoctorBazinga)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 4:58pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/modding-various-homey-pro-early-2023-modification-suggestions/79487/106 "2023-06-21T16:58:45Z")
That 10 years of backup for 50€ was on BlackFriday/CyberMonday last year. I’ve bought it myself too. So maybe again this year end of november/ on Black Friday this year. 😉🕶 Red Iphonitis rigorosa : level 11 ---
**Author:** ![Ranney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/848f3c/32.png) [@Ranney](https://community.homey.app/u/Ranney)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2023, 10:06am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/modding-various-homey-pro-early-2023-modification-suggestions/79487/107 "2023-06-25T10:06:15Z")
For anyone who needs to know, it is not an issue to restore an cloud backup from a homey with is using the full 32gb of flash to a homey that has max (original) 8GB of total flash 💪 ---
**Author:** ![Chris\_nl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/chris_nl/32/27194_2.png) [@Chris\_nl](https://community.homey.app/u/Chris_nl)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/modding-various-homey-pro-early-2023-modification-suggestions/79487/108 "2023-07-14T17:46:18Z")
Updated my Homey last week, cm4108032, and has been working very stable for the last week. Also replaced my cooler with the one @Ranney suggested, and the temperature is down quite a lot. (red arrow indicating when it was replaced) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/e/e/eebb4730ccd89f52e744950bb400065a530d39c4.png). Everything works 8GB Ram, 32GB storage, only 1 issue, after changing the CM Module it is not possible anymore to make a USB backup for me. Does anyone have a solution for that maybe? @Ranney thanks for the tips and advice on the components 👍 ---
**Author:** ![spkesDE](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/spkesde/32/54352_2.png) [@spkesDE](https://community.homey.app/u/spkesDE)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 6:04pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/modding-various-homey-pro-early-2023-modification-suggestions/79487/109 "2023-07-14T18:04:10Z")
Different cable ---
**Author:** ![Chris\_nl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/chris_nl/32/27194_2.png) [@Chris\_nl](https://community.homey.app/u/Chris_nl)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 6:06pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/modding-various-homey-pro-early-2023-modification-suggestions/79487/110 "2023-07-14T18:06:11Z")
Thanks for the tip, i’ve tried 2 (the Homey cable and another one). Right before the Cm upgrade i made a USB backup with the Homey cable without issues. After upgrading it does make a backup, but gets stuck at 90+% ---
**Author:** ![spkesDE](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/spkesde/32/54352_2.png) [@spkesDE](https://community.homey.app/u/spkesDE)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 6:56pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/modding-various-homey-pro-early-2023-modification-suggestions/79487/111 "2023-07-14T18:56:36Z")
Yeah, it’s a known problem. I mean @Sharkys fixed this with a different USB C cable. ---
**Author:** ![Chris\_nl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/chris_nl/32/27194_2.png) [@Chris\_nl](https://community.homey.app/u/Chris_nl)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 7:01pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/modding-various-homey-pro-early-2023-modification-suggestions/79487/112 "2023-07-14T19:01:28Z")
I will try some more, maybe another one will work 🥺 ---
**Author:** ![Robin\_De\_Lange](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robin_de_lange/32/25173_2.png) [@Robin\_De\_Lange](https://community.homey.app/u/Robin_De_Lange)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 7:11pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/modding-various-homey-pro-early-2023-modification-suggestions/79487/113 "2023-07-14T19:11:46Z")
with the cooler that ranney suggested you mean the bigger heatsink 11 mm? ---
**Author:** ![Chris\_nl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/chris_nl/32/27194_2.png) [@Chris\_nl](https://community.homey.app/u/Chris_nl)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 7:57pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/modding-various-homey-pro-early-2023-modification-suggestions/79487/114 "2023-07-14T19:57:26Z")
> [@Robin\_De\_Lange](#): > > h the cooler that ranney suggested you mean the bigger heatsin Correct, the 11mm, I’ve ordered it from [this store](https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/1005003955915167.html?spm=a2g0o.order_detail.order_detail_item.3.74486d76i0DwIL&gatewayAdapt=glo2nld), but plenty of other webshops have similar ones. (Let op C & D = 11mm, A & B = 5 mm). I also replaced the thermal pads, bought [these](https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/1005004759771481.html?spm=a2g0o.order_detail.order_detail_item.3.28ac6d76ksexsx&gatewayAdapt=glo2nld), 1mm AND the 3mm. (you need both if you are going to replace them!) If you also need a small wrench, i’ve used [these](https://www.amazon.nl/dp/B01MRW8WCW?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details) (Credits to @Ranney) ---
**Author:** ![Robin\_De\_Lange](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robin_de_lange/32/25173_2.png) [@Robin\_De\_Lange](https://community.homey.app/u/Robin_De_Lange)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/modding-various-homey-pro-early-2023-modification-suggestions/79487/115 "2023-07-14T20:34:53Z")
Thank you chris 👍 ---
**Author:** ![Sharkys](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/sharkys/32/54029_2.png) [@Sharkys](https://community.homey.app/u/Sharkys)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 10:55pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/modding-various-homey-pro-early-2023-modification-suggestions/79487/116 "2023-07-14T22:55:29Z")
> [@Chris\_nl](#): > > Correct, the 11mm, I’ve ordered it from [this store](https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/1005003955915167.html?spm=a2g0o.order_detail.order_detail_item.3.74486d76i0DwIL&gatewayAdapt=glo2nld) Just careful, it seems that the antenna cutoff is not right… you will get Wifi and Bluetooth range issues ---
**Author:** ![Chris\_nl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/chris_nl/32/27194_2.png) [@Chris\_nl](https://community.homey.app/u/Chris_nl)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 11:22pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/modding-various-homey-pro-early-2023-modification-suggestions/79487/117 "2023-07-14T23:22:38Z")
Can you explain that a bit more, so far my WIFI has actually been better after replacing the CM module (probably not due to the new cooler, but more memory related), and I don’t really use the homey bluetooth (so far), but ESP32’s with MQTT. Did have a strange thing with zigbee the first time I started, some devices were offline (5 out of 40), got an error repairing, but after repairing failed they did work fine. No clue if that was related to replacing CM or cooler or just bad luck (had similar things with Homey 2023 in the past too before replacing the CM) ---
**Author:** ![Sharkys](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/sharkys/32/54029_2.png) [@Sharkys](https://community.homey.app/u/Sharkys)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 11:39pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/modding-various-homey-pro-early-2023-modification-suggestions/79487/118 "2023-07-14T23:39:52Z")
> [@Chris\_nl](#): > > Can you explain that a bit more From the CM4 manual : > If the on-board wireless antenna is used (see Section 2.1) it must be orientated towards the edge of the plastic > enclosure and any nearby metal must have cut-outs or the wireless performance will be degraded. It is suggested that > there is at least 10mm clearance around the PCB antenna, but the designer must check the performance. ![Screenshot_20230715_014138_Drive](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/b/3/b33ac85ac1ca6fb12b51b138db55b60d39946254.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Chris\_nl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/chris_nl/32/27194_2.png) [@Chris\_nl](https://community.homey.app/u/Chris_nl)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 12:18am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/modding-various-homey-pro-early-2023-modification-suggestions/79487/119 "2023-07-15T00:18:47Z")
Makes sense, so far I didn’t notice any problems, the connection quality on my wifi network is still the same or better. I don’t really use the Homey Bluetooth, so can’t say if that is any worse. If I ever do get in trouble I can always cut out that part, order a new fan with the cutout or even use the original of course. My experience so far, no issues, but if you can find a 10/11mm with the right cutout, that’s even better 👍 ---
**Author:** ![Shiki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@Shiki](https://community.homey.app/u/Shiki)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 3:25am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/modding-various-homey-pro-early-2023-modification-suggestions/79487/120 "2023-07-15T03:25:32Z")
Hi All, if the CM4 removed the cpu heat sink cap, install smooth finishing copper shim and heat sink, does it cool better ? [Previous page](https://community.homey.app/t/modding-various-homey-pro-early-2023-modification-suggestions/79487.md?page=5) [Next page](https://community.homey.app/t/modding-various-homey-pro-early-2023-modification-suggestions/79487.md?page=7)