Ten years of Homey — Ask Me Anything 💬

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Congratulations! Huge milestone, and its certainly been a lot of fun being along for the ride, I have some questions -

General

  • Why are there so few (device/zone) icons to choose from?

Developer Tools

  • Any plans to give developers more analytics such as the ability see how many of each of each driver or device are installed?
  • Can developers get a new (templated) app setting page for simple app settings, utilzing a similar approach to the device settings? (overrideable)
  • Add the ability to send a diganostic report which is filtered by a single device.
  • How about a best practice approach / demo for unit testing homey apps (coverage checks) in order to help improve the quality of community apps?
  • Can we get better support for typeScript?

Devices

  • Can we get a setting to exclude devices from alexa?
  • When an app is updated, can the timeline show the change log item?
  • More Icons?

Flows

  • Any thoughts around adding a ‘finally’ to flows (as experiment)?
  • More presence flows (everyone is asleep, last person HOME went to sleep)
  • Can we please get a modern approach to weather flows, ie the app already has access to weather information - why cant we build flows from it?
  • A new trigger when any device alarm changes

IR

  • Send raw IR from the tools page?
  • Select homey bridge to send raw and hex IR codes from tools

Capability

  • Can we get a capability for ‘arrow buttons’ (left, right, up, down)?
  • Live video capability?

App

  • Better searching in the app for flows?
  • Icons seem to be low cost high reward, can we get some more?

Zones

  • More zone icons?
  • Can we get the ability to reorder zones again?
  • Currently zones assume that when my front door is open the house is active” and when it’s close not active. Any plans to look at changing how contact sensors are managed in the smart home apps?

Tiles

  • Can we get Extra large tiles, with more data?
  • What about Tile with table information?
  • Tile with insight data?
  • More icons for tiles?

Virtual Zones

  • Have you considered Virtual Zones - ability to put device into one or more ‘virtual’ zone in addition ?
  • Allow devices to be shown and hidden from a virtual zone, using flows?
  • Show insights titles on virtual zones?
  • Show XL titles on virtual zones?

Hardware

  • Homey Ultra Pro Max Extreme?
  • Homey bridge / satalite with thread support?

New Map View

  • Map view created by LiDAR map generator?

Other

  • Homey Pro is good … whats next (circa 2025)?
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