That was a bitter pill, 300 peanuts, It can cost something. Whew, ouch, #schatzoujedatweldoen #yessuretreasurethatmakes your life more beautiful
A white sphere with a nice edge with LED lights, it could control my click-on-click-off lights, cool.
Unpacked, installation was a bit difficult (my internet is crap, it's not the Homey, but it didn't 'repack' itself well either) but in the end I got it to work.
The interface looks slick. You can configure and operate the entire device via a Windows or Mac PC. Nice interface, works smoothly. It's a pity that so far this is only possible via PC. I do believe that Athom (the creators of the Homey) will eventually put more effort into a smartphone app that supports more. At the moment you can just control all your devices but not adjust flows and settings.
The smartphone app they have now is nice. It's great if you happen to want to turn off a light while you're lying on the couch with a bag of peanuts and your cat.
The interface is (as said) nice to work with, nice! Playful, beautiful, professional and yet also like "ey, if you don't understand it, then I look great". Sun factor. Old cheese with red wine, not everyone likes that either, but it is seen as something beautiful and therefore accepted more quickly.
Once I played with the flows and my Click-on Click-out system I found out that Homey has an app for Milight that works! (Don't know Milight yet? Wow, check china shops!)
Milestone 1: "Okay Homey, we're going to sleep", and this white friend just turns off all the lights AND the TV! He also says "Sweetheart, sleep well". In the morning he asks me via my smartphone if I want to know the news, and when I press "yes", he just reads the news!
Milestone 2: "Yo, black cheese, do you want to hear music?" - he just asks as soon as I get home. I say "yes", and the TV switches on, switches to 1802 (Sublime FM!) and independently goes to the menu and chooses "switch off picture", I have pure music. Secretly programmed through a "FLOW" (◕‿◕✿). My girlfriend thought it was funny too.
Milestone 3 : "Yo, can you turn on the oven for me?", "Yes" I got back, and my girlfriend turned on the oven. It was time for pizza!
Milestone 4 : Bought a photo frame at the Xenos, 6 peanuts, cut away plastic with a multi-tool so that my old frikandel iPad 2 fits in here. I thought "I'm going to run the Homey app on that". List ready, no homey app. There is no app for tablet, so, balls.
Fortunately, there is an 'app' in the 'Appstore' of the Homey! It's called "Homeydash"! And it works fine. You can then control devices and flows (GEEK Shizz : do you want to control a flow? You can start flows with 'virtual devices', you create flow as you want, link it to a 'virtual button' and set that 'virtual button' your homeydash #ploep).
Now, I also see that the Homey supports Google Play, among other things. Spotify is not supported, and oh, neither are bluetooth speakers (YET). So maybe I'll switch, so I can have music coming from different speakers, machine.
And, Homey supports Ikea lamps I saw, cost: teenager per dimmer or lamp. Order 1 every month! For example, I could replace all the lamps in the house with the 'Ikea TRÅDFRI' (+ a TRÅDFRI dimmer). Not bad for an LED lamp with such a light and specifications. You can then for example:
If [girlfriend] puts the phone on the charger AND [moi] puts the phone on the charger AND it's during the week AND it's between 11 PM and 6 AM, THEN EVERYTHING turns off! And, you can still control everything via the dimmers on the wall (DIMMERS!). Very female friendly. Just like old cheese with mustard, also pleasant.
Furthermore, I now intend to burn all my savings on fun shizznit. Homey supports many devices, but not all of them. For example, I have a wireless doorbell from LIDL (cost: same as 4 packs of cheese, slightly less) that works via RF signal, but there is no app for that yet. You also cannot record and use RF signals (user-friendly), unless you have a good dose of development knowledge.
I'll check out some motion sensors that are compatible with what's in the app store. The next step is to be able to control the lamp by the front door (if someone calls, then switch on the lamp. If the time is between 20:00 and 04:00, the lamp is on, etc. And smoke detectors, Coolblue sells 3 wireless smoke detectors (ALECTO SA-33) for a nice amount Homey should cooperate with it if I believe the app store.
I hope this is of some use to you. It would be a shame if I could also spend all this time eating tasty tapas. Or wine.
IN SHORT : I think it's a cool thing, and I believe very much in the progress and development of the Homey. It's expensive for what I have now. But for what I'll have in a year's worth of equipment, it's more than worth it. Apart from the hardware, there is also a lot of skill in the field of software (buienradar, nu.nl, weather, location, presence).
WOW. I barely even talked about voice control. You can best control the above things with a voice command, but it just doesn't work well yet.
With my soft G I'm already out of the loop, but you don't have to do it (yet) with the voice control. It's nice, but sometimes you have to AR-TI-CU-LE-REUHH like a half-wit, and then Homey says: "Okay, G. I get this".
p.s. the forum is great to poke around, and their roadmap.
