Homey Bridge

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The Homey Bridge is the latest smart hub in the Homey family. It features Zigbee, Z-Wave Plus, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 433MHz and infrared, and it uses the loved Homey app for control and automation. Sounds like Homey Pro, but there’s some major differences. That starts with th... read more

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The Homey Bridge is the latest smart hub in the Homey family. It features Zigbee, Z-Wave Plus, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 433MHz and infrared, and it uses the loved Homey app for control and automation.

Sounds like Homey Pro, but there’s some major differences. That starts with the design, which is completely different. It’s now glossy black, combined with aluminium. Of course, the signature RGD LEDring is still present, but it's more subtle.

Key differences between Homey Bridge and Homey Pro:

The Homey App Store for Homey Bridge is more controlled. This means that Homey Apps for Homey Bridge will be of higher quality, but there may be less, especially for pro / niche devices and use-cases. There’s still tens of thousands of products supported, though!
Homey Bridge runs its logic and intelligence in the cloud. The main reason why the Homey Bridge is so much cheaper is because the processing power of Homey moved, which is a LOT, to the cloud. This means Homey Bridge depends on a working internet connection to operate, just like smart thermostats, voice assistants and Chromecasts do. NOTE: This does NOT mean there are any compromises made on privacy. Personal data of users is still off-limits, and Homey don’t use any personal data for reselling, profiling or other shady causes.
Homey Bridge includes three months of Homey Premium. An active Homey Premium subscription of 2.99 EUR/month is required to connect more than five devices to Homey. Users can always use up to five devices for free, without any subscription and including an unlimited amount of Homey Flows.

The user experience for Homey Bridge and Pro are mostly similar. Most devices are supported by both products, and they share the same Homey app for control and automation.

Homey Bridge measues 127 x 35 x 127 mm.

What is Z-Wave Plus?

Z-Wave Plus™ is a certification developed to help users identify products that use the "new generation" also known as the "500 series" of Z-Wave hardware. Z-Wave Plus™ offers a bunch of extra functions and possibilities that improve your use and make the installation of Z-Wave devices easier.

Z-Wave has been the market leader in interoperable smart home devices since 2004. With the introduction of Next-Gen (Z-Wave 500 series) hardware, Z-Wave saw new opportunities, including longer range, longer battery life, Over The Air upgrade (OTA), more RF channels and much more. All this and they are backwards compatible with existing Z-Wave devices.

For consumers, home owners, integrators and service providers, this upgrade turned out to be very beneficial in terms of much easier installation, richer device profiles, improved self-healing and longer battery life.

Features:

50% Longer battery life
67% Longer range
250% More Bandwidth
3 F channels for improved interference protection and higher bandwidth
New Plug-n-Play network-wide inclusion process
Improved self-healing and fault tolerance with Explorer Frame function
Standardized method for Over the Air firmware updates (OTA)
Improved information for the product certification database

To be sure what is Z-Wave Plus certified, note this image above the product images on our website ()

What is Z-Wave S2?

Z-Wave S2 is the latest generation of Z-Wave developed to reduce power consumption, faster commands between devices and increase security on the network.

Advanced encryption

S2 improves Z-Wave Plus and Gen5 devices with an extra layer of AES 128-bit encryption of wireless signals combined with security class UL 1023.

Increased security

The first two layers of security are joined by a third - Always-on ECDH key exchange, which makes man-in-the-middle or brute force hacking almost impossible.

Better battery life

ECDH and AES 128-bit reduce Z-Wave Plus wireless data transmission, security communication now uses 66% less battery.

Faster commands

Your smart home becomes seamless. S2 devices improve Z-Wave wireless performance speed by more than 50%, reducing latency down to milliseconds.

To be sure what is Z-Wave S2 certified, note this image above the product images on our website ( Z-Wave Plus )