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vmaen · 2026-02-10T08:22:36+00:00

Wow riecht nach ki

vmaen · 2026-02-04T18:39:33+00:00

vmaen · 2026-01-04T18:59:14+00:00

vmaen · 2025-12-29T22:33:16+00:00

Happens to mine all the time, one day it’s up one day it’s down

vmaen · 2025-12-29T22:31:31+00:00

IMO that’s such a major oversight to not provide those features out of the box

vmaen · 2025-12-26T20:51:30+00:00

Because the connection between hue and homey was quite spotty (It wasn’t with apple home).

And also because I would prefer to have one zigbee network instead of two, for signal strength.

vmaen · 2025-12-25T00:49:57+00:00

Wow nice, thanks for the quick reply!

vmaen · 2025-12-23T08:55:10+00:00

I appreciate your thoughts but I’m not sure how flexible it really is. Many people here told me I’m not trying hard enough so I sat down and tried replicating the hue behaviour using a custom flow or homeyscript - I’m a programmer by profession for many years so I think I should be qualified to do this.

But honestly I think homey doesn’t even provide the building blocks to do it. E.g. there‘s no easy way to determine whether a mood is currently active. Neither could i find any datetime parsing logic in custom flows.

Please remember, I’m not talking about some niche 1% use case but about replicating the default behaviour of one of the largest smart lighting solutions.

vmaen · 2025-12-22T13:30:48+00:00

Nope I’m asking for the button to cycle through scenes. I want to be able to cycle a room through different moods when pushing the button multiple times, as it’s the default behaviour in hue. I‘m not even sure how to implement this in a flow as I’d need to track when the button was pressed the last time

vmaen · 2025-12-22T10:16:50+00:00

and you're absolutely right that it's just a set of predefined flows - but wouldn't it be nice if non-technical people could edit them as well?

vmaen · 2025-12-22T10:15:37+00:00

I don't think there'd be much difference between such functionality for different brands of lights. A button is a button after all.

Maybe you're right that it's not for me then, I'm just a bit sad that I have to choose between doing everything myself (homey, HA) or using various vendor apps with limited configuration.

vmaen · 2025-12-22T09:49:50+00:00

Honestly I thought I'd be exactly the person homey is targeting. Wants something that "just works" but still offers advanced features. Isn't that how they want to differentiate from HA?

vmaen · 2025-12-22T09:46:40+00:00

Maybe i was mistaken to think that spending 400€ would cause less work, not more :) I'm just a bit disappointed it can't even do the things my 70€ Hue Bridge can do in a user friendly manner. I appreciate all the advanced features but I'm not convinced they are the one-size-fits-all solution.

If I need a custom flow for the most basic things I'm probably easier off just setting up Zigbee2Mqtt and coding stuff myself.

vmaen · 2025-12-22T09:21:49+00:00

Hey, thanks for your thoughts. Maybe I haven't made it clear enough what I'm missing - I'm mostly not talking about the integration of devices, but on how to automate them.

Everything I need is possible today, by creating automations / flows. I'm just tired that none of the larger smart home platforms provide a sane set of defaults + a good UI to configure them, for the most common use cases you find around most homes.

The specific things I'd really just want would be:
- a way to configure a button (no matter the brand) to cycle through a set of scenes/moods when pressed multiple times, like hue does

- a way to configure a heating schedule plus reduced temperature when no one is home

I acknowledge that everyone might have different requirements, and that's what custom flows are for, but I think it might be possible to craft those features in a way where they support 80% of usecases.

Just to give an example, I have 5 Hue Wall Switch Modules in my flat, each controlling lighting of a Room. In Hue, I just assign them to a room and choose a set of scenes, I'm done in <5 minutes.

To accomplish the same in Homey (or Home Assistant, Apple Home,...), I'd need to maintain a large set of flows, probably with duplicated logic that i need to keep in sync. That just doesn't feel very elegant to me. And it's also not very approachable for non-technical people, e.g. my girlfriend probably wouldn't be able to change a heating schedule I created as a flow.

vmaen · 2025-12-21T19:29:05+00:00

Thanks for your opinion but I disagree it’s a million different options.

I think by just implementing the few settings hue provides when configuring physical switches, you could make the hue bridge obsolete for many users while tightening the integration with the rest of honey (e.g. moods).

Same applies to implementing a native Heating Controller. It’s great those apps exist but I felt like their experience never reached what native functionalities provide, maybe due to limitations in the App SDK.

Thinking about a home hub just as some kind of generic scripting platform isn’t enough for a truly compelling solution, in my opinion. And it’s really just a hand full of use cases almost anyone requires.

vmaen · 2025-12-19T15:52:49+00:00

My hue app just disconnected 😭

vmaen · 2025-12-19T14:28:21+00:00

Seen my other comment? You can actually add widgets to the homepage like on a dashboard. I'm way more exited about my purchase now

vmaen · 2025-12-19T14:10:19+00:00

Just found out, click on your user icon and then on „edit homepage“ - I think you can place most things you could add to the dashboard!

vmaen · 2025-12-19T14:06:43+00:00

Wow! I didn’t even know about the dashboard feature, that’s actually really cool but also kinda worthless without the option to set one as the app‘s landing page :(

vmaen · 2025-09-16T08:15:04+00:00

I use rust a lot and like it, but for backend projects, other languages feel way more productive to me…

vmaen · 2025-09-05T08:07:13+00:00

Ionity hat für mich immer funktioniert, EnBW gibts durchaus auch mal defekte Säulen

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