Athom’s smart home hubs just got a meaningful upgrade. The Homey Pro (2023–2026), Homey Pro mini and the Homey Self-Hosted Server all secured Matter 1.5 certification, issued on June 29, 2026 for firmware version 13.3.0. If you own compatible Homey hardware, the update is already available.
The headline here is energy. Matter 1.5 extends the standard well beyond lights and locks, adding native support for EV chargers, heat pumps, solar panels and major appliances. That turns a Homey hub from a convenience gadget into something closer to a household energy controller — the kind of setup that actually matters when you’re juggling a home battery, a car in the driveway and a heat pump doing the heavy lifting on your heating bill.
The other big win is bridging. Homey has long positioned itself as the polyglot of smart home hubs, translating between Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread and cloud ecosystems. With Matter 1.5, cross-platform device bridging gets broader coverage, meaning more of your existing gear can be exposed cleanly to other Matter controllers — and vice versa.
On the hardware side, both the Homey Pro and Homey Pro mini ship with a built-in Thread Border Router, so there’s no extra dongle required to pull Thread devices into the fold. The specs still hold up nicely for a compact hub:
- Homey Pro (2026): 4 GB RAM
- Homey Pro mini: 1.5 GHz Quad-Core ARMv8 CPU, 1 GB RAM and 8 GB Flash Storage
Pricing did move earlier this year. As of the June 1, 2026 adjustment, the Homey Pro sells for US$449 (up from $399) and the Homey Pro mini for US$249 (up from $199). Not cheap, but the appeal has always been consolidation: one box that speaks nearly every smart home dialect rather than a shelf full of single-brand bridges.
What makes this certification genuinely useful — rather than a spec-sheet footnote — is timing. As more manufacturers roll out Matter 1.5-ready energy hardware, having a hub that already speaks the language means you won’t be waiting on firmware to connect your next solar inverter or wall charger. For anyone building out a home energy setup, Homey just became a more credible hub for the whole picture, not only the lights and thermostats.
If you’re already running a Homey Pro, mini or Self-Hosted Server, it’s worth checking that you’re on firmware 13.3.0 or later to take advantage of the new device categories.
