{"id":57814,"date":"2021-09-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/?p=57814"},"modified":"2021-09-11T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T16:13:00","slug":"video-homey-launch-freemium-smart-home-cloud-controller-homey-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/new-products\/video-homey-launch-freemium-smart-home-cloud-controller-homey-bridge.html","title":{"rendered":"Video: Homey Launch Freemium Smart Home Cloud Controller &#038; Homey Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Athom, Dutch creators of the Homey smart home system have reinvented the controller as an app and Cloud service. The makers say that Homey works with many cloud-connected devices, such as Philips Hue, Sonos, Spotify and can connect to 50.000+ smart home devices from 1000+ brands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No hardware is needed to try it out and you can start off on the free tier with the Cloud only service and up to 5 Cloud devices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want more than that, and you will, then a monthly \u00a32.99 subscription allows you to control unlimited devices and adds access to Homeys powerful logic engine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"437\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/automatedhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Homey-Bridge.jpg?resize=777%2C437&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Homey Bridge\" class=\"wp-image-57831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/automatedhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Homey-Bridge.jpg?w=777&amp;ssl=1 777w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/automatedhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Homey-Bridge.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/automatedhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Homey-Bridge.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/automatedhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Homey-Bridge.jpg?resize=180%2C101&amp;ssl=1 180w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/automatedhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Homey-Bridge.jpg?resize=260%2C146&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/automatedhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Homey-Bridge.jpg?resize=373%2C210&amp;ssl=1 373w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/automatedhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Homey-Bridge.jpg?resize=120%2C67&amp;ssl=1 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The next step is to add the \u00a369 Homey Bridge. This new device has on-board hardware so you can add Bluetooth, Zigbee, Z-Wave, 433 MHz and Infrared control to your setup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, the Homey Pro controller is still available at \u00a3399 with the advantages shown in the comparison table below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the keynote video below and visit <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/homey.app\/\" target=\"_blank\">homey.app<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"777\" height=\"437\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AD5-3stXteY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"891\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/automatedhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Comparison-homey.png?resize=891%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Homey Comparison Table\" class=\"wp-image-57818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/automatedhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Comparison-homey.png?resize=891%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 891w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/automatedhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Comparison-homey.png?resize=261%2C300&amp;ssl=1 261w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/automatedhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Comparison-homey.png?resize=768%2C883&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/automatedhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Comparison-homey.png?w=1119&amp;ssl=1 1119w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 891px) 100vw, 891px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athom, Dutch creators of the Homey smart home system have reinvented the controller as an app and Cloud service. The makers say that Homey works&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":57817,"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":"2021-09-13T06:00:07Z","apple_news_api_id":"fe8e99f3-5268-44d9-9a53-42b74b721584","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-09-13T06:00:08Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A_o6Z81JoRNmaU0K3S3IVhA","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":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-products"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/automatedhome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Homey-Bridge-Homey-Web-App-Homey-Mobile-App.jpg?fit=777%2C437&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57814"}],"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=57814"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57837,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57814\/revisions\/57837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automatedhome.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}