Very great news and a great gift for this last 2025 days….
i succesfully installed and configure Homey SHS on my Synology using docker, but question is:
Zeegbee, z-wave are supported only with homey bridge or will be support for example aeotec z-stick 10 pro now connected to my synology and used by z-wave ui?
Wondering as well.. nowhere it specifically says if Homey SHS works with simply putting in zwave/zigbee/etc. sticks in the device hosting Homey SHS or if it simply doesnt. So im curious as well if that works.
Or if Homey SHSi s simply another way to make people buy Homey bridges
on my synology i have a aeotec z-stick 10 pro connected and configured in an home assistant hub. Also i’m curious to see if will be supported or not, beacuse my stick is a z-wave 800….
if not supported probably i continue to use home assistant
Where did you get it from?
Hi Bubiai_2,
All version can be downloaded here
Unfortunatly at the moment i think that usb stick will not be supported, like details in link attached.
In last point : Can i use USB dongle with Homey Self-Hosted-Server ?
answer is: Homey Self-Hosted Server is designed to work seamlessly with Homey Bridge for Zigbee, Z-Wave, Bluetooth, 433 MHz & Infrared connectivity. There is no need for USB dongles, so Homey Self-Hosted Server does not support these.
this not good, i will stay with home assistant.
Ok. If it doesn’t work with Homey (2019), will we have to give the ball to the dog?
No, you can use the HomeyLink app to use it’s devices (& even flows) on an other Homey.
You can add the z-wave devices to Homey per Home Assistant community app.
I use ~60 zigbee2mqtt devices that way. Fun fact: all in all the devices respond way quicker compared to using them with Homey native zigbee
I believe it’s not exactly the same thing.
The Homey Pro (2019) I owned had everything needed to manage all the standards that could be present in a home back in 2019, such as Z-Wave and Zigbee, so it would never have ended up as a toy for my dog.
The Homey Pro SHS doesn’t have these features, so we need to add them, making it equivalent to software solutions like Home Assistant, OpenHAB, and others.
If it were free HUB software, I would agree with you and consider it a closed system that only supports Homey hardware. But since it’s a commercial product for which I pay a license, I believe it’s fair to let the user decide which Z-Wave/Zigbee hub to use.
That’s my point of view.
Interesting, I’ll look into this solution. Does it need Internet to work? Does it have acceptable latency? I have alarm sensors that should be notified immediately. Which apps do you need to install on Homey and Home Assistant?
OK, I’ve looked into it and, if I understood correctly, this solution does allow me to use Z-Wave devices while keeping Home Assistant as the management hub…
At this point, I wonder why I need to use two software hubs?
If I use Homey SHS, it’s because I want to use Homey SHS and abandon Home Assistant.
Anyway, I’ll install it now and give it a try.
Thanks for the support.
Marco
ADDENDUM
The Homey app for Home Assistant seems to be well designed. I’ve tested some sensors, switches, and power outlets, and everything appears to work perfectly with fast notification times.
Everything runs under Docker on my Synology—Home Assistant and Homey Pro SHS—so latency is practically zero.
During this trial month, I’ll run some tests, hoping that in the future they open up to USB dongles or update the Homey Bridge to Z-Wave 800.
Thanks.
Bye,
Marco
Yes HA < > Homey is completely local.
I wrote about latency: it’s quicker! Depends on the wifi setup and interference of course.
You don’t need to, but both have their (dis)advantages.
I started with Homey, and wanted to explore H.A. later on.
I still prefer advanced flows to automate, and use H.A. for zigbee (z2m is heaven compared to Homey zigbee), Matter (not available@ pro 2019), and for Homey unsupported devices, and to be able to use more apps/integrations (a Pro 2019 has 1GB RAM) > HA is only limited by the host’s storage and RAM (but SHS now has only the host limits as well).
And not to forget, I’ve built (WEB)dashboards to my likings a few years ago. With MQTT any Homey device can be synced with HA.
I can’t and I won’t choose for now 
What number does shs limit to?
I completely agree with you.
All hubs have pros and cons, and you need to choose the one that helps you best.
What I like about the Homey platform—and I think they’re unique for this—are their advanced flows, the official apps, and the community apps.
I didn’t know about the Home Assistant app, and I think in the end I’ll leave HA just for managing Zigbee and Z-Wave devices. For now, in HA I use ZHA, but now I’ll try Z2M since you speak so highly of it.
As an execution platform, I use Docker on my Synology DS920+ with 12GB RAM, and I believe the resources are more than sufficient.
Thanks to the integration with Alexa, I can also skip confirming the Nabu service I’m using during the trial period. I’m using Cloudflare as a reverse proxy to access Home Assistant and Homey, so I don’t even need it for remote access.
I guess if everything works well, I’ll use HA as a bridge for Z-Wave/Zigbee and devices not directly supported in Homey. Then, if an updated Home Bridge with Z-Wave 800 comes out, I might consider buying it—unfortunately, I need LR for some sensors.
Thanks and bye!
ADDENDUM
Also sync homey device to HA is a great feature to have an advance dashboard! i will check and try also this …. all using MQTT?
Maybe it is possible via MQTT ? Please test and let us know.
Oh, I meant the limit for the SHS is de limit determined by the host it runs on, like,
If it has 15TB of free storage, you’ll see that number
If it has 20 GB of free RAM, you’ll see that number
This looks like there’s no hard limits set by Athom.
I tried this but all the ”actions” from HA for the Z2MQTT are not migrated ..
i tried the old ikea trådfri remote and none of the actions are available in homey flows.
i think i can manually type all of them as an ”event” but thats a hassle compared to HA
How is it working for you?
I just tested this today, and for me most of my Zigbee devices get more features available if I add them through the Z2M app in Homey, and noe the HA Community app, have you seen something similar?
I also have a lot of Z-wave devices in a ZwaveJS container and HA, these work great through HA Community with all/most features available.
The HA community app “takes” what a device tells it it has, which isn’t always “everything”, but you can fully edit the added devices afterwards, so I don’t miss out on anything.
As weird example, you can even combine a watervalve “knob”, a coffeemachine temperature sensor and a mediaplayer volume button to one Homey device.
I’m sure the zigbee2mqtt app by Robin is a great app as well.
When you miss certain flow cards, there’s always a bunch of generic cards available per device, giving me much flexibility.
But it’s just about what you (don’t) like to work with.
