I was considering buying a Homey bridge to cover my garage which is 20 m away from my Homey Pro, too far for zigbee devices to reach but, if I understand correctly, the bridge doesn’t deserve its name since it doesn’t “bridge” zigbee and zwave signals from Homey Pro but serves as another repeater.
So, why would anyone buy a Homey Bridge ? For what use ?
Bridge IR/RF.
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Originally it was used to bridge local radio protocols to a Homey cloud instance.
So it seems you assumed a bit to much.
- Homey = Homey Cloud / Premium or such, which runs @ Athom servers
- Homey Pro = a real device, with 2016-2019, and 2023 models.
So this info is about a Homey Cloud bridge:
This info about the Pro 2023 is not exactly true:
The real info for Homey Pro bridge functionality is to be found at the KB with searchphrase “satellite”:
That’s what I surmised. Athom should provide a real bridge via WiFi for all the supported protocols
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Here’s a quote from Emile, Oct 20th, 2022:
Keep on requesting this feature @ homey.app/support I’d say.
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Why not go for zigbee2mqtt + (W)LAN zigbee dongle. It’s all there, way less $$ than a Homey bridge 
Zigbee2mqtt might solve half the problem since I also need a zwave bridge (though zwave does extend to the garage most of the time).
I’ll search the forum for a ‘how to’ configure the sonoff ZigBee adaptor with Homey.
Thanks for the hint
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