{"id":36174,"date":"2017-04-10T08:09:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T07:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/?p=36174"},"modified":"2020-04-14T21:05:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T20:05:05","slug":"uk-launch-for-homey-smart-home-hub-with-z-wave-zigbee-wifi-ble-ir-433-868-mhz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/hardware\/uk-launch-for-homey-smart-home-hub-with-z-wave-zigbee-wifi-ble-ir-433-868-mhz.html","title":{"rendered":"UK Launch for Homey Smart Home Hub With Z-Wave, ZigBee, WiFi, BLE, IR, 433 &#038; 868 MHz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week saw the introduction of a brand new smart home hub to the UK market<\/p>\n<p>Dutch start up Athom successfully launched Homey on Kickstarter in 2015, more than doubling their funding target for the project.<\/p>\n<p>The 12cm diameter\u00a0sphere contains\u00a0<span class=\"big\">a 1 GHz\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"small\">ARM CPU with 512MB RAM and 4GB flash storage.\u00a0Athom say all your data is stored locally, and is not shared with them or any 3rd party. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"small\">The\u00a0<\/span>radios inside can\u00a0control a vast array of smart home equipment\u00a0including those using Z-Wave, ZigBee, Bluetooth, WiFi plus 433 MHz and 868 MHz system too.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been designed to look good and be worthy of a spot in your living room, useful\u00a0as it has six high-power Infrared-LEDs to control TVs and other\u00a0IR devices.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36222\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/automatedhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/homey-hub-electronics.jpg?resize=777%2C398&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Homey Hub Electronics\" width=\"777\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/automatedhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/homey-hub-electronics.jpg?w=777&amp;ssl=1 777w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/automatedhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/homey-hub-electronics.jpg?resize=300%2C154&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/automatedhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/homey-hub-electronics.jpg?resize=768%2C393&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A combination of the included software plus\u00a0plugin &#8216;apps&#8217; means Homey already works with over 20,000 devices and that number is growing\u00a0every day. Think hardware\u00a0like\u00a0Nest, Philips Hue, LightwaveRF, Chromecast, Sonos as well as software and services like IFTTT, Google Assistant, Spotify, Plex and Facebook Messenger. The list goes on and on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Flow Editor provides an easy to use drag and drop style GUI to\u00a0create complex logic using When \/ And \u00a0\/ Then columns.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/automatedhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/homey-hub-flow-ui.jpg?resize=777%2C459&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Homey Hub Flow GUI\" width=\"777\" height=\"459\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wi-Fi 802.11b\/g\/n 2.4 GHz<\/li>\n<li>Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy 1<\/li>\n<li>ZigBee 2.4 GHz 2<\/li>\n<li>Z-Wave Plus<\/li>\n<li>433 MHz<\/li>\n<li>868 MHz<\/li>\n<li>Infrared Receiver<\/li>\n<li>Infrared Transmitter (6x)<\/li>\n<li>NFC (ISO14443A)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Athom has chosen the UK and Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) for the first international\u00a0launch outside the Netherlands and they\u00a0aim to cover most of Western Europe later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><p >No products found.<\/p><\/p>\n<p>It certainly looks like an exciting new system and we&#8217;ll be reviewing it in the coming weeks. In the meantime Homey is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Athom-Homey-Pro\/dp\/B07VPQV6ZV\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?dchild=1&amp;keywords=homey&amp;qid=1586894549&amp;sr=8-9&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=ah4-21&amp;linkId=649b3dd089a0d78b5976726a2020041b&amp;language=en_GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">available from Amazon<\/a> and direct from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.athom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.athom.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week saw the introduction of a brand new smart home hub to the UK market Dutch start up Athom successfully launched Homey on Kickstarter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-04-10T07:09:26Z","apple_news_api_id":"ba758d19-f50b-4948-b2e1-dc76bdb774e1","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-04-14T20:05:09Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AunWNGfULSUiy4dx2vbd04Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,24,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","category-new-products","category-zwave"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/automatedhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/homey-hub.jpg?fit=777%2C437&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36174"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50201,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36174\/revisions\/50201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}