Homey is significantly strengthening its ecosystem with the release of the Matter Bridge app for Homey Pro. This is a handy new tool designed to help your devices work better with the rest of your smart home, including Apple Home, Google Home, and Amazon Alexa.
The idea is simple. You should be able to control your device using the platform that feels most natural to you at the moment. Maybe it’s asking Siri to dim the lights, run a Google Home routine, or trigger something with your voice via Alexa. With the Matter Bridge app, Homey makes all of that possible, even for devices that wouldn’t normally show up at all in other apps.
This is the real headline. This app does more than just bridge the standard Matter device. We also expose non-Matter devices to other platforms through Homey. So if you have 433 MHz blinds, a Z-Wave thermostat, or a collection of old sensors you don’t want to part with, they will now appear in Apple Home as if they were natively supported. This is the kind of quiet magic that smooths out the interoperability gap that many smart homes still have.
Setup is intentionally simple. After installing the Matter Bridge app, go to the Homey mobile or web app, go to Matter Bridge settings, and scan the QR code on your platform of choice. Select the devices you want to bridge and you’re done. No room rebuilding, complicated transitions, or rewiring required.
The app works with Homey Pro (Early 2023) and Homey Pro mini and supports a wide range of categories, including lights, plugs, locks, blinds, thermostats, sensors, and alarms, which are basically the core of a modern home setup. Importantly, Homey Pro remains the hub that keeps everything running smoothly in the background, and Matter Bridge acts as a flexible gateway to the rest of the ecosystem.
For those who have been building smart homes for years and ended up mixing protocols and platforms, this is an elegant way to bring everything together. And in a world where Matter promises simplicity but still doesn’t quite deliver universal ease of use, Homey’s approach feels refreshingly pragmatic.
