Hi everyone,
I’m looking for a simple, reliable setup to secure a house with Homey Pro:
• Door/window contact sensors
• Motion/presence detectors
• Cameras
• Siren
Which models are truly compatible (ideally Zigbee/Z-Wave), stable locally, and easy to buy in Europe?
Bonus: low latency, reliable push notifications, and best-practice flows like “away + door opens → siren + push + snapshot.”
Thanks for concrete recommendations and gotchas to avoid.
Hello shahine,
An unsolicited advice from a good heart:
The words secure and Homey in the same sentence is a red flag to me.
Homey is a nice gadget, not a professional 24/7/365 PLC-like machine.
It might work fine for weeks or even months, but it also might completely random not respond to (a) sensor event(s). Homey, or it’s apps, might crash after a unannounced nightly auto-update.
It happens.
Also ‘radio technology’ and ‘reliable’ don’t match.
When you consider it to be a “nice bonus” to get alerts for open contact-/motion sensors:
About the flows: check the Heimdall app.
In addition to @Peter_Kawa’s advice above (whhich I fully agree on); better look for a professional alarm and see if you can conenxt it to Homey. See the Homey App Store for that or try to connect it via webhooks or other means.
That way you might have the best of both worlds
(Although more expensive of course)…
Thanks, that’s clear. And what do you think of Ring, for instance — would you consider it reliable enough, or still too “consumer” for a proper home setup?
No problem. Sorry, I can’t advice on Ring or other security gear.
I consider it “consumer enough for a proper home setup” although I don’t know what you mean by that 
I have a system running and I’m very happy with it. If you want to do it right, you do need a subscription, but that will also get you unlimited* recording on an unlimited number of cameras per location.
The basestation has a backup battery, it has ethernet, wifi and a backup 4G functionality built in. The sensors connect through z-wave and it comes with a z-wave extender that also has a backup battery built in.
You can control it using the app, but also with a keypad which can be power by mains and just like the rest, also has a backup battery. Only thing I kinda miss is the keypad has no rfid option for key fobs.
The siren is hideous though and I don’t use it.
And the best thing is, you can integrate it with Homey when using the great community Ring app! 
Ring Doorbell, Camera and Alarm support for Homey
* There’s probably some limit when you read the fine print, but I haven’t run into it yet. I have 2 doorbells and some cameras but haven’t not run into any limitations.
