Homey is giving its ecosystem a major boost with the launch of the Matter Bridge app for Homey Pro, a handy new tool designed to make your devices play more nicely 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 devices using whatever platform feels most natural at the moment. Maybe that’s asking Siri to dim the lights, running a Google Home routine, or triggering something by voice through Alexa. With the Matter Bridge app, Homey makes all of that possible, even for devices that normally wouldn’t show up in other apps at all.
That’s the real headline here. The app doesn’t just bridge standard Matter devices; it also exposes non-Matter devices to other platforms through Homey. So if you’ve got a 433 MHz blind, a Z-Wave thermostat, or a collection of older sensors you refuse to part with, those can now appear in Apple Home as if they were natively supported. It’s the kind of quiet magic that smooths over the interoperability gaps many smart homes still struggle with.
Setup is intentionally straightforward. After installing the Matter Bridge app, you hop into the Homey mobile or web app, head to the Matter Bridge settings, and scan a QR code with your platform of choice. Select the devices you want to bridge and you’re done — no rebuilding rooms, no complex migration, no wiring changes.
The app works with Homey Pro (Early 2023) and Homey Pro mini, and supports a wide range of categories: lights, plugs, locks, blinds, thermostats, sensors, alarms, essentially the core of a modern home setup. Importantly, Homey Pro remains the hub that keeps everything running smoothly in the background, with the Matter Bridge acting as a flexible doorway for other ecosystems.
For anyone who’s built a smart home over the years and ended up with a mix of protocols and platforms, this is an elegant way to bring everything together. And in a world where Matter promises simplicity but hasn’t quite delivered universal ease yet, Homey’s approach feels refreshingly practical.
