I’m really starting to get fed up with this overpriced hockey puck now. I had a really cheap Zigbee hub for quite a while and it mostly worked great, save for some issues with some Zigbee battery switches (which also don’t work properly with Homey Pro).
So I bought the Homey Pro in the hope of creating a more intricate smart home with one device that was able to control all of my smart home components.
Mostly I try to use Zigbee where possible though. I recently got a bunch of Aqara blind motors that use Zigbee, to control the blinds in my home automatically to allow the sun and free warmth into the house during the day, then close at sunset to keep the warmth in and give us privacy.
However, this makes it very obvious when the Homey has decided to crap out, because either the blinds don’t open in the morning or don’t close in the evening.
And this happens ALL THE TIME!
Now, for example, none of the blinds have closed this evening, so it’s not just a single blind motor failing. I can get onto my Homey through the app just fine and tell the blinds to open and close. But nothing happens.
The blinds open and close manually if I press the buttons on the motors and the Homey seems to work again after I unplug it and plug it back in.
Mine is hard wired to my router as well, so it’s not a WiFi issue.
It just seems like recently since the update the Zigbee just craps out almost every day, so I’m constantly unplugging it.
I also have issues with a light that I have on a sensor. It seems to come on, then just stay on until I unplug the Homey again.
Had I known this very expensive Homey hub would be so unreliable I wouldn’t have bothered.
If anyone has any idea how to fix my issues, I’d be very grateful.