Homey just gave its smart home hubs a new lease on life

There’s a ticking clock in your smart home, and we don’t just mean the one mounted on the wall, telling you it’s time to get started thinking about lunch. While it used to be that we could install a light switch or an outlet and not have to worry about them for years and years (if not decades), with smart home devices we’ve got to seriously consider the medium-to-long-term impact that software support threatens to have; will the hardware we install today just up and stop working a few years down the line?

This isn’t just a problem with fly-by-night companies, either, and major brands regularly abandon their aging smart home devices, forcing users to upgrade if they want to preserve functionality — we saw exactly this scenario just play out with older Nest Thermostat models.

Today we’re not trying to turn you into a Luddite or anything, but bringing all this up because we just learned about a lovely counterexample: Homey has just shared that it’s extending support for its smart home hardware.

Specifically, we’re talking about the Homey Pro smart home hub — and the 2023 updated version, at that. That originally launched with plans to support the hardware for five years, running up through 2028. But now the company is tacking on an additional three years to that guarantee, committing to software support through “at least” June 2031 – it sounds like Homey’s even leaving the door open to extend that lifespan further.

If you don’t have the Homey Pro, don’t worry, as Homey is extending the same 2031 support guarantee to its Homey Pro Mini. This one’s much newer, so that’s a little less impactful, but it’s still great to see them all now on this equal playing field.

As for what you can expect from this extra support, Homey’s not going into a ton of detail just yet, but does tease new features and security updates on the way.