Well that might work for some, but our PCs are all Linux and only have hard-wired Ethernet, no Wi-Fi.
#Vera vs homeseer windows
Once the LEDs had settled down, a loud voice made us jump, telling us to visit - so something to remember if you're powering this up for the first time at night and have kids asleep in the next room!Īt this stage we found ourselves getting into a bit of a mess with trying to follow the setup instructions which wanted us to "connect your Windows device to the Wi-Fi network". It's a nice touch during the setup and will be useful no doubt for visual notifications as part of future Smart Home logic. It would seem that the LEDs are "addressable" so that each individual LED can be colour-changed on demand, allowing animations and patterns to be shown. Plugging in the included PSU (which incidentally is just a mini-USB 5V type and pleasingly has a nice long lead on it) makes the LED ring start doing a "chase me" pattern which looks pretty cool.
#Vera vs homeseer manual
There's no manual in the box, which is a little frustrating and it took us a few minutes to find the "instructions" on the side of the box to visit and follow the Wizard. That said, Wi-Fi does allow the device to be sited pretty much anywhere in your house (assuming it's within Wi-Fi range) and Homey is probably the only Smart Home controller out there that we'd be happy to have sat in plain view on a shelf or sideboard in the main living area and not tucked away in a cupboard. We were also surprised to see that Homey doesn't have a wired Ethernet connection either, we're not sure that we'd be comfortable having our central Home Automation controller at the mercy of a Wi-Fi connection. 2.4G is such a crowded band so 5G would have definitely been a better choice in our opinion.
To be honest we were a bit disappointed to see that the Wi-Fi was only 2.4G when 5G is more or less the norm nowadays.
#Vera vs homeseer full
We won't go through the full tech-specs here, but the interesting stuff is most definitely the number of built in radios - there's 7 in total, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE, Z-Wave Plus, NFC, 433MHz, 868 MHz and ZigBee (remember that we said above it certainly appears to tick a lot of boxes). Being of a certain age it reminds us a bit of the floating ball thingy from the Phantasm movies, but hopefully this won't be jumping off the shelf anytime soon! It's sat on three small chrome spherical legs that make it seem slightly tilted with the front of the LED ring lower than the rear. Homey is a small white sphere-shaped device with a ring of LEDs around the middle, equator-style. Homey is certainly up there with the best of them in the looks department, right from the initial packaging (which hits the spot Fibaro-style) to the first glimpse of the hardware in the box. There's not many devices in the Smart Home world that garner admiring looks from people, even things like Nest and Hue which do a decent job on the aesthetics aren't exactly jaw-dropping.
Incidentally, if you've not yet chosen a core Home Automation controller it's well worth reading our guide. We've had a couple of months now with Homey and been testing it in the background so we thought it was about time to give our thoughts on whether it meets those lofty design goals and how it stacks up against the likes of Fibaro and Vera. Some time ago now we added the Athom Homey Home Automation Controller to the site and on paper this spherical wonder certainly appeared to tick a lot of boxes!
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