Automate & monitor your smart home with our Smart Home Hub – The Homey Bridge

What is The Homey Bridge and what is it used for?

The Homey Bridge is a smart home hub that unifies wireless devices from various brands into in a single smart home system that can be remotely controlled, managed, and monitored to automate your entire home.

This cutting-edge IoT technology enables you to manage all your smart devices on a single app, offering you unmatched user experience, ease of use, and the ultimate automation features.

All smart home protocols you need

With all relevant smart home protocols built-in, The Homey Bridge lets your devices talk effortlessly with each other.

Wi-Fi: The Homey Bridge connects to the cloud using your home's Wi-Fi network.

Zigbee: A popular mesh-enabled protocol mainly used for lights, remotes, and plugs.

Bluetooth: Low-energy protocol for many smart home devices.

Z-Wave: A mesh-enabled technology used mostly for smart sensors and plugs.

433 MHz: One-way communication often used in smart devices that are a bit older.

Infrared: Control your TV, Stereo tuner, and speakers with this classic protocol.

Advantages of using The Homey in South Africa

The Homey Bridge offers the technologically adept South African market the capacity to transform an ordinary house into a smart home, integrating many cloud/non-cloud-connected devices, such as Philips Hue, Sonos, and Spotify, thanks to Bluetooth, Zigbee, Z-Wave, 433MHz and Infrared. Some of its features include Homey Insights, which displays beautiful data charts of any home layout, and Homey Energy, which monitors and provides intelligent insight on the usage of energy, enabling end-users to save costs on energy.

The Bridge can automatically switch its Z-Wave frequency with a unique multi-antenna design, based on its geographical location. With the IoT market continually growing, so does the reach of this innovative hub and the integration of many more smart devices to the network. It can also connect and automate devices in a new and creative way, creating what’s called “Flows”. Flows are scenarios in Homey that do things automatically for you. For instance, having the lights turn off when the television turns on. These Flows operate in a when-and-then principle, completely bringing your house to life.

MiRO’s partnership with Homey

In South Africa, MiRO has been a pioneer for IoT advancements, providing businesses and homes with state-of-the-art smart home and automation technologies. From Aqara, VSSL, Ring and Milesight, MiRO has brought affordable and highly performing equipment to the market, enabling homeowners to upgrade their homes and service providers to implement some of the best technologies for their customers.

The Homey Bridge enables existing smart homeowners to merge their compatible smart devices and manage them from an easy-to-use hub with no third-party management systems required. Compatible devices include sensors, controllers, smart speakers, bulbs, plugs and more. MiRO ensures that customers receive not only the best of products, but also value-added services including training, pre-sales and after-sales technical support.