Homey Pro (2026) Review

Who the Homey Pro is for

The Homey Pro is for the person whose smart home has outgrown a single ecosystem. You started with a couple of Wi-Fi plugs and a speaker, then added a Zigbee sensor because it was cheap, then a Z-Wave lock because it was the one that fit your door, and now you are running three apps and nothing talks to anything else. This hub is the answer to that specific mess: Z-Wave 700, Zigbee 3.0, Thread, Matter v1.5, Bluetooth LE 5.0, dual-band Wi-Fi, infrared and 433 MHz are all in the one box, per Homey’s published spec list. No USB stick, no second bridge, no “works with, via a hub sold separately.”

It suits people who want that breadth without adopting a hobby. That is the gap it fills. The Home Assistant Green integrates even more than this, but its radios are an accessory and its learning curve is the price of admission. The Hubitat Elevation C-8 Procovers Z-Wave and Zigbee locally and costs far less, but its interface was built for people who enjoy the wiring. Homey is the one that puts a polished phone app on top of an enthusiast’s radio set, and charges accordingly.

Who it is not for: anyone buying their first smart device. If you own three Wi-Fi bulbs and a video doorbell, this hub will cost more than everything it controls and do nothing you can feel. Start with our do you need a hub guide instead — the honest answer for a lot of homes is not yet.

What the 2026 model actually changed

Homey’s own announcement is refreshingly plain about this: the 2026 model has 4 GB of RAM, “doubling the 2 GB of the previous model”, with room to run “well over 100 Homey Apps.” The radios are unchanged, the platform is unchanged, and Homey states that both generations “will continue to receive the same features, improvements, and updates for years to come.” The spec page lists a 1.5 GHz quad-core ARMv8 with 8 GB of eMMC flash for both.

That matters because the Early 2023 model is still on sale, usually for less. Memory is the thing that runs out on this platform: every brand you connect — Hue, IKEA, Somfy, a TV, a robot vacuum — is a Homey App running on the hub, and Homey ties the app count directly to the RAM. So the upgrade is not marketing. It is the difference between a hub that comfortably carries a decade of accumulated brands and one you will eventually have to prune. If you are buying to consolidate a house full of mixed gear, buy the memory.

One more number worth having: Homey commits to software updates for the Pro “until at least June 2031.” For a category where hubs are regularly orphaned when a brand loses interest, a published end date that far out is a real part of what you are buying, and very few competitors print one at all.

The radio list, and why it is the whole argument

Every hub decision comes down to which devices you will be able to add in three years, and that is decided by radios rather than software. Zigbee and Z-Wave are the two mesh protocols most serious sensors, locks and switches use; our guide to the three protocols explains why owning both matters more than either one alone. Thread is the newer low-power mesh that Matter devices increasingly ride on. Here is how the hubs we cover compare, from each maker’s published specifications:

Read that table and the Homey’s case makes itself: it is the only hub on our list that arrives with all four columns filled in and nothing sold separately. The Hubitat is the closest thing to a rival, and it actually has the newerZ-Wave silicon — 800 Series against Homey’s 700 — but it has no Thread radio, so the newest generation of low-power Matter accessories needs a border router from somewhere else in your house. The Echo Hub is an Alexa panel first and a hub second. The Home Assistant Green has no radios at all until you add a stick.

Beyond the mesh protocols, two of Homey’s radios are unusual enough to be worth naming. Infraredlets the hub act as a remote control for the dumb equipment that never got smart — an older TV, an air conditioner, an amplifier — which is the kind of thing people buy a Broadlink for. And Bluetooth LE 5.0 picks up the cheap temperature and plant sensors that never bothered with a mesh radio. Both are a genuine reason this hub replaces a drawer of bridges.

The 433 MHz footnote US buyers need to read

Now the part we would want told to us before checkout. The Amazon listing title advertises 433 MHz support. Homey’s own spec page carries this note: “Due to regulatory differences between regions, 433 MHz transmission is currently turned off on Homey Pro and Homey Bridge in the US, Canada, and South Korea.”

So a spec on the box is not a spec you can use in a US home. In Europe, 433 MHz is how a big population of older, cheap devices work — roller blinds, garage remotes, weather stations, generic plugs — and for a European buyer it is one of the Homey’s best features. In the United States it is dormant. That does not make the hub a bad buy here, because almost nothing sold into US homes depends on it, but it does mean you should mentally strike it from the feature list before comparing prices. If you bought this hub specifically to rescue a set of 433 MHz blinds, it will not do that today.

We flag this because it is exactly the kind of regional asterisk that never survives the trip from a manufacturer’s footnote into a retailer’s bullet points, and the whole point of our methodis reading the manufacturer’s page rather than the listing.

Local first, and what that buys you

Homey’s pitch is that the hub “processes everything locally, so it’s always up, even when your internet is down,” and that it “runs entirely on-premise, ensuring minimal latency and maximum reliability.” This is the same property that makes the Hubitat and Home Assistant boxes worth their trouble, and it is the single most underrated feature in the category.

The practical version: a motion-triggered light that thinks on the hub turns on in the time it takes the sensor to report. The same automation routed through a cloud goes sensor to router to a data center to the same router and back, and you feel every one of those hops standing in a dark hallway. Local also means an internet outage downgrades your smart home to a normal home rather than a broken one, and it means the automations you wrote are not hostage to a brand’s decision to retire a service. Our smart home without internet guide walks through which parts survive an outage on each kind of system.

It also has a privacy consequence people underrate. A hub that decides things on the device has no operational reason to ship a running log of your movements anywhere. That is a structural difference, not a policy promise, and it is the reason our device security guide treats local control as a security feature rather than a preference.

Where it falls short

The obvious one is price. This is the most expensive hub in our registry, by a distance, and it is possible to build a capable smart home on a hub that costs a fraction of it. Homey also sells direct from its own store, and the listing price on Amazon is not always the same number, so it is worth checking both before you commit — the button above shows Amazon’s live price at the moment you loaded this page.

The second is the missing Ethernet port. For a hub whose entire value proposition is reliability, shipping with Wi-Fi as the default connection is an odd choice, and Homey sells an Ethernet adapter as a separate accessory. Anyone putting this in a wiring closet should budget for that adapter. The Pro mini, of all things, has Gigabit Ethernet built in.

The third is Apple Home. Homey supports it, but on Homey’s own wiki page the mechanism is described as enabling the “Apple HomeKit experiment,” after which Homey works as a HomeKit bridge. Homey states plainly that “not all device features are available in Apple Home” and that “some devices (such as infrared or 433 MHz devices) may not report their real-time state.” If your household runs on iPhones and you want everything native in the Home app, a HomePod mini is the hub that does that job properly, with Homey underneath it for the heavy automation.

The fourth is a consequence of the design rather than a flaw, but you should know it: with the Matter Bridge app, Homey says bridged devices become unavailable across every connected platform if Homey itself loses access to them. Centralizing on one hub is the point — it is also a single point of failure, and the reason we would keep the hub on a small UPS alongside the router.

Homey Pro or Homey Pro mini?

Homey now sells a smaller sibling, and the decision between them is unusually clean because it is about radios rather than features. Homey’s mini spec list is Matter v1.5, Zigbee 3.0, a Thread border router and Gigabit Ethernet, with 1 GB of RAM. Homey states that Z-Wave, 433 MHz, Bluetooth LE and infrared arrive only with the separate Homey Bridge add-on, which also extends Zigbee range.

Put simply: if you own a Z-Wave lock or Z-Wave sensors, buy the full Pro and stop reading. If everything you own is Zigbee, Thread or Matter, and the hub can live next to your router on a network cable, the mini is the same software for less money and is arguably the more reliable box because it is wired. What we would not do is buy a mini plus a Bridge to reach Z-Wave — that is two devices, two power supplies and two things to troubleshoot in place of one.

Where it sits against Hubitat, Home Assistant and SmartThings

Three hubs frame this purchase. The Hubitat Elevation C-8 Pro is the value answer to the same question: local automation, Z-Wave 800 and Zigbee 3.0 on board, no fees, at a small fraction of the Homey’s price. You pay for it in interface — Hubitat’s admin pages look like a router’s — and in the missing Thread radio. If money is the constraint and you do not mind the workbench aesthetic, it is the rational buy.

The Home Assistant Green is the ceiling. Nothing integrates more, nothing is more customizable, and nothing else has a community that will have already solved your exact problem. It is also a project: you add USB radios yourself, you maintain it, and you will spend evenings on it. Our Hubitat vs Home Assistant comparison sets those two against each other in detail, and Homey sits above both on polish and below Home Assistant on raw capability.

SmartThings is the mainstream alternative, with the biggest device catalog of any platform here — but its current hardware has dropped Z-Wave, and more of its intelligence lives in Samsung’s cloud. Our ecosystems comparison is the page to read if you have not yet chosen a platform, because that decision constrains the hub choice far more than any spec on this page.

The running-cost reality

This site ranks everything on what it costs over five years rather than on the sticker, and the Homey Pro does unusually well by that measure for one reason: there is nothing to pay afterwards. Control, automation, the app store and remote access are included — Homey’s 2026 announcement says those cloud features come “all included at no extra cost.” The only recurring option is Cloud Backups, billed yearly, and backing up to your own Mac or PC is free.

Set that against the cameras and alarm kits most people buy alongside a hub, where the monthly plan quietly becomes the larger half of the five-year total — the arithmetic is laid out in our running-cost guide. A premium hub with no plan can be cheaper by year three than a cheap hub attached to a subscription. That is the case for spending here rather than somewhere more visible.

The verdict

The Homey Pro (2026) is the most complete hub we list and the hardest one to justify on price. Both halves are true. If you have accumulated devices across Zigbee, Z-Wave, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and you are tired of four apps and three bridges, this is the box that collapses them into one, runs the result locally, and never sends you a bill — with a published support commitment to at least June 2031 behind it. That is a genuinely strong buy for a mature smart home, and the 4 GB of memory in the 2026 model is what makes it a hub you grow into rather than out of.

If you are earlier in the journey, buy less. The Hubitat C-8 Pro does the local-first, no-fee part for far less money, the best hubs rounduphas a cheaper right answer for every ecosystem, and if your devices are all Zigbee or Matter the Pro mini above is the same software for less. And whichever way you go, strike 433 MHz off the feature list if you are buying in the United States — Homey turned it off here, and we would rather you heard that from us than found it out after the box arrived.