Hi people.
I have now had the homey pro 2023 for some weeks, came from smartthings, which I sold with my old house.
Figured I would try a new system.
This is mostly due to smartthings stopped supporting an app I had for dlna speakers.
However, this was sometime ago when smartthings moved from groovy to matter.
So in my search for a better system I noted that athom homey was all the rage and the best, most advanced with flows, etc.
Not to mention that the price is triple what a smartthings hub is.
But what is this?
Seriously asking, what is this?
It seems for me to go back in time to smarthome old days.
None of the devices I took with me from my old house is supported here, and if you have a generic bulb connected to your hue system, like say, an ikea bulb, the homey system will not understand the light at all and no on/off commands even.
And all the other devices, like switches or motion detectors, do pair, but no actions are supported.
Okay, so I have searched the forums, it seems you need an app for every f## thing, which in itself is like the first version of smartthings, like 2006 or something.
Then I figure out who has made some of my units, then I searched for the apps.
Then I discovered that if athom itself has an official app, it so severe limited that it is a joke.
Then I find that some volunteers have made some apps, thank God for this, but then I discovered it only supports the devices they needed it to support or what they have helped others with.
Which is okay, I understand, itâs working for free, I do understand this.
But this also means that youâre at the grace of the volunteers to if a generic device you buy will work at all.
What is this? And how can you say this is a better system?
I can understand that the flows maybe is better then others uiâs, but what does that help when it doesnât have support for units I had no problems with in smartthings or home assistant.
And the units are normal items I have bought in stores with no special requirements, working in smartthings with generic matter drivers.
I remember I coded some drivers in groovy some years ago, this was after the app ecosystem, but after matter was introduced almost everything have worked out of the box.
Some items have demanded apps like âdoor lock code handlerâ but then again this is not âtuya driver appâ with support for just some items, but a generic zigbee or zwave lock code handler for supporting like codes that only work between theese dates, etc.
So hopefully someone can point out to me that my own search have been bust, then point fingers the right way for me to solve this.
Because, as of now, it seems to me that I have to tripple check everything I will buy in the future that it is supported by athom homey before buying, even if it is a standard zigbee / zwave unit. And it seems like almost all units I have, except for some fibaro units, is thrash for my new hub.
If this is the case, itâs easier to call the athom homey pro thrash and go with smartthings or something that supports standard units, dlna, etc.
So please tell me Iâm wrong, missing something, and I didnât spend $550 on this hub, and it doesnât work better than this?