# Quick advice — Home security 100% compatible with Homey Pro

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/quick-advice-home-security-100-compatible-with-homey-pro/144403>\
**Category:** Devices\
**Tags:** homey-pro\
**Created:** [October 22, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/quick-advice-home-security-100-compatible-with-homey-pro/144403 "2025-10-22T14:00:13Z")\
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**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:** [October 22, 2025, 2:24pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/quick-advice-home-security-100-compatible-with-homey-pro/144403/2 "2025-10-22T14:24:05Z")

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> [@shahine](#):
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> reliable setup to secure a house with Homey Pro

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](https://community.homey.app/t/134).

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