🏆 The Homey Community Awards

[Doekse]

The Homey Community Awards 2025

Hey everyone,

It’s time to celebrate the people who make the Homey Community such a great place!

We’re shining a light on the amazing folks who bring the Homey spirit to life, whether they’re helping out on the Forum, Reddit, Quora, Facebook, or anywhere else.

From nominations to final votes, it’s the community that decides who deserves the spotlight — from the helpful troubleshooters to the creative Flow masters.

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Update — These are the winners!

The votes are in, and the community has spoken. Thanks to you, we get to celebrate the members who went above and beyond this year.

With thousands of votes cast, we’re excited to announce the top 3 community-voted winners:

#	Name	Username	Link to profile
	Martijn Poppen	@martijnpoppen	See profile
	Robert Klep	@robertklep	See profile
	Peter Kawa	@Peter_Kawa	See profile

Congratulations to all the winners! Everyone at Homey, both the team and the community, truly appreciates everything you do.

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Runners-Up and Jury Picks

But that’s not all. We also want to thank all the runners-up, as well as a few jury picks who narrowly missed the nominations but stood out through their activity and support within the community.

The runners-up and jury picks, in no particular order, are:

Name	Username	Link to profile
Undertaker (Uwe)	@Undertaker	See profile
Kim Kokholm	@Kim_Kokholm	See profile
Ronny Winkler	@RonnyW	See profile
Arie J. Godschalk	@Arie_J_Godschalk	See profile
SunBeech	@SunBeech	See profile
Robin Gruijter	@Gruijter	See profile
Danee de Kruyff	@DaneedeKruyff	See profile
Geurt Dijker	@Dijker	See profile
Dirk G.	@DirkG	See profile
Sharkys	@Sharkys	See profile
Adrian Rockall	@Adrian_Rockall	See profile
Jamie Peake	@Jamie	See profile

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Prizes

All the winners, runner-ups and jury picks have already received a message about their prizes. The prizes are as follows:

1st Place:

• Homey Pro Special Edition
• Smart Home Devices worth €500
• Exclusive Homey Merch

2nd Place:

• Homey Pro Special Edition
• Smart Home Devices worth €250
• Exclusive Homey Merch

3rd Place:

• Homey Pro Special Edition
• Smart Home Devices worth €100
• Exclusive Homey Merch

Additionally, we are happy to share that all the runner-up’s and jury’s picks will also receive an exclusive Homey Pro Special Edition

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Now, you might be wondering: what’s the Homey Pro Special Edition?

It’s the Homey Pro you know and love, but with a transparent casing that shows off its inner hardware magic. Each one is hand-assembled by our team, making it a true collector’s piece.

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Thank you to everyone for making this community truly awesome. See you in the next edition of the Homey Community Awards

[Doekse]

Reserved

[Sharkys]

Very nice initiative, well done !!!
Sent you 3 nominees… but I guess also Homey Community Forum stats tells you already a lot

[Autogedrocht]

I nominated myself, i gratefully will pick up the special edition at Enschede. I’ll bring some wet cake.

[Tiwas]

Damn, now I need to create a headless script that’ll go into each thread and “answer” a lot

[John_William_Brekke]

I want to go in full Homey clothes!

[Peter_Kawa]

Are you sure, @John_William_Brekke ?

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So right after I nominated myself only, my very old and squeeky yellow-ish two legged Homey 2019 crashed, and then it fell off the shelf, right into the dog’s water bowl. The power brick started smoking, and next thing I know, the whole neighbourhood blacked out.
What lesson is learned?

1. Always purchase the latest Homey
2. Never put Homey on a (high) shelf
3. Don’t put dog bowls near Homey
4. Don’t get a dog
5. Use power bricks which aren’t into smoking
6. Start living in off-grid mode permanently
7. … maybe never nominate myself

[John_William_Brekke]

LOL WHAT?!?!?! That’s insane!! Did all that actually happen???

[Sharkys]

I really miss this emoticon next to hearth -

[Henk_Renting]

I am open for nominations…

[Waldo]

That’s cool, and definitely a worthwhile prize pool!

Sadly, I’m way too inactive to even come close. May the best homie get nominated and win!

[Didier_SmartHome]

That’s a great initiative . Curious to see a picture of the Homey Pro special edition

[Doekse]

I’ll post a picture of it next week… Maybe

[Doekse]

[DaneedeKruyff]

Nice!

[Henk_Renting]

Love it!

[Didier_SmartHome]

It looks great!

[Dijker]

@Doekse

Nominations: Until October 26

Today the last day for your nominations!!!

[Doekse]

Thanks everyone for nominating! Nominations are now closed, and it’s time to vote for your 5 favorite finalists. You can find all the details in the first post of this thread. Happy voting!

And just a reminder, all finalists were selected based on the highest number of nominations. Once we move on to the prizes, we’ll also reveal the Jury’s Picks and Honorable Mentions!

[DaneedeKruyff]

Thanks to everyone nominating me, never expected to be on the shortlist!