
Dutch sensible residence specialist Athom has taken the covers off of the Homey Professional Mini; a smaller, extra budget-friendly sibling to its flagship Homey Professional.
Priced at $199, which is half the price of the LG-owned model’s prime sensible residence hub, the Homey Professional Mini nonetheless has a neighborhood management, privacy-first focus, and assist for sensible residence connectivity like Ethernet, Zigbee, Matter, and Thread.
There’s no Wi-Fi, nor Z-Wave, however the latter might be added again into the combination utilizing a Homey Bridge.
You’ll additionally want a Bridge to get Bluetooth LE, Infrared and 433MHz connectivity concerned in a Homey Professional Mini system.
The Bridge additionally boosts Zigbee protection by Satellite tv for pc Mode, making it a precious add-on for bigger setups.
The Professional Mini runs the identical Homey OS as the wonderful Professional, providing integrations with over 1,000 sensible residence gadgets, together with big-name manufacturers similar to Philips Hue, Sonos, and Aqara.
Homey’s system helps you to create automations – referred to as Flows – and monitor vitality utilization through Homey’s not too long ago launched Vitality Administration System.
Regardless of its smaller dimension, the Mini can nonetheless deal with as much as 20 Homey Apps. That’s down fairly a bit from the 75 that the Professional provides, however ought to nonetheless be a lot for many households.
With a quad-core ARMv8 processor, 1GB RAM, and 8GB of storage, the Homey Professional Mini sounds ideally suited for smaller setups or inexperienced persons moving into the sensible residence area. For these with extra complicated techniques or greater calls for, the Professional stays the higher, albeit a lot costlier, choice.
Athom have been knocking out sensible residence hubs since 2016. By my depend the Mini is the sixth iteration of Homey hub.
The Enschede primarily based model was not too long ago acquired by LG, who plans to combine Homey’s software program into its ThinQ platform.
LG has assured us that Homey will stay unbiased although, persevering with to cater to energy customers and sensible residence lovers – very like Samsung has executed with SmartThings.
Because the sensible residence panorama continues to evolve, Homey’s rising sensible residence ecosystem – powered by community-driven integrations and LG’s backing – makes it a compelling contender for managing linked gadgets in a privacy-focused, regionally managed surroundings.
The Homey Professional Mini is on the market for folks within the US and Canada to pre-order now, with shipments anticipated in April 2025.
A European launch is slated for later in 2025.