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homey

Read and control devices on a Homey Pro hub or Homey cloud account: lights, thermostats, locks, blinds, Flows. Trigger phrases: homey, homey pro, homey flow, athom.

Install / Use

npx skills add Anil-matcha/awesome-muse-connectors --skill homey

Installs into whichever agent you are using.

About this skill
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SKILL.md

Installable skill definition

Quality Score

85/100

Category

Automation

Supported Platforms

Universal

Our assessment of homey

homey scores 85/100 on our quality scale, 2042nd of 2,906 Automation skills we index.

Its SKILL.md is 5.1 KB long, well organised into 13 sections with 1 code example: a solid amount of guidance for an agent.

With 1,321 GitHub stars, it is one of the more widely adopted skills in the catalogue.

Substance
26/30
Structure
17/20
Description
15/15
Adoption
13/20
Freshness
15/15

Maintenance, license and trust

  • The repository was last updated 20 days ago, so homey is actively maintained.
  • It is released under the MIT license, a permissive license that allows use, modification and commercial use with attribution.
  • Its trust signals score 100/100, with no cautions. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install homey?
Run npx skills add Anil-matcha/awesome-muse-connectors --skill homey. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent.
Which AI agents does homey work with?
It is written for Universal, as a SKILL.md file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
Is homey safe to use?
It is MIT-licensed and scores 100/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
Is homey still maintained?
The repository was last updated 20 days ago, so homey is actively maintained.

name: "homey" description: "Read and control devices on a Homey Pro hub or Homey cloud account: lights, thermostats, locks, blinds, Flows. Trigger phrases: homey, homey pro, homey flow, athom." metadata: { "includeInPrompt": true } tagline: "Read device state and write capability values on a Homey Pro (local) or Homey cloud account through the Homey Web API: lights and outlets, dimmers and color, thermostats, connected locks, blinds and curtains, plus listing Flows (automations). Use it when the user asks about or wants to change anything paired to their Homey. Writes drive real physical hardware, so they are confirmation-gated (see Operating Rules)." catalog_auth: "personal API token or OAuth via the secure credential flow" catalog_hosts: ["the host you pass via --host"]

Homey

Purpose

Read device state and write capability values on a Homey Pro (local) or Homey cloud account through the Homey Web API: lights and outlets, dimmers and color, thermostats, connected locks, blinds and curtains, plus listing Flows (automations). Use it when the user asks about or wants to change anything paired to their Homey. Writes drive real physical hardware, so they are confirmation-gated (see Operating Rules).

Tooling

All commands go through bin/homey.py. --host is required on every run: the API root, either local (http://<homey-ip>/api) or cloud (https://<cloud-id>.connect.athom.com/api):

bin/homey.py --host http://192.168.1.60/api auth               # status check: verify token, count devices
bin/homey.py --host <api-root> devices                          # list devices with capabilities
bin/homey.py --host <api-root> device --id <id>                 # device detail

# Writes. Lock writes are HIGH: they REQUIRE --confirm naming the exact
# physical effect, on every run:
bin/homey.py --host <api-root> set --id <id> --cap locked --value false \
    --confirm "unlock the side door"

# Other capability writes are MEDIUM: --confirm on first use per device, then
# proceed:
bin/homey.py --host <api-root> set --id <id> --cap onoff --value true \
    --confirm "turn on the living room floor lamp"
bin/homey.py --host <api-root> set --id <id> --cap target_temperature --value 21 \
    --confirm "set the bedroom thermostat target to 21 degrees"

# Blind/curtain writes are LOW: they proceed with a logged notice:
bin/homey.py --host <api-root> set --id <id> --cap windowcoverings_state --value up

# Flows:
bin/homey.py --host <api-root> flows
bin/homey.py --host <api-root> flow-trigger --id <flow-id> \
    --confirm "run the Good Morning flow (opens blinds, starts coffee machine)"

--value is JSON-parsed: true, 0.5, 21, '"heat"'. Capability names follow Homey's conventions: onoff, dim, locked, target_temperature, thermostat_mode, windowcoverings_state, light_hue, light_saturation.

Open item: flow-trigger ships with an UNTESTED path (POST /manager/flow/flow/{id}/trigger). Its exact form could not be pinned from public docs at build time; verify it against Athom's docs on first live use. It is HIGH-gated regardless.

Auth

  • Provider id: homey (credential is collected as custom.homey)
  • Collection: personal API token (Homey Pro) or OAuth 2.0 token (Homey cloud) via the secure credential flow (credentials.request_api_access). The CLI sends it as Authorization: Bearer <token>.
  • Allowed hosts: whatever --host names (the Homey's LAN IP/hostname or <cloud-id>.connect.athom.com). The CLI pins egress to that host per run.
  • Status check: bin/homey.py --host <api-root> auth

Operating Rules

  1. HIGH actuations are blocked without explicit confirmation. Setting locked to false (unlock) or true (lock) requires --confirm "<exact physical effect>" on every run. Triggering a Flow is also HIGH: a Flow's physical effects are whatever its actions do, so --confirm must name them, and the Flow's actions should be read back to the user before confirming when they are not obvious.
  2. MEDIUM actuations confirm on first use per device. onoff, dim, light_hue/light_saturation, thermostat capabilities: --confirm the first time a device is actuated; the CLI records it locally (~/.config/muse-connectors/homey/confirmed.json) and later runs proceed.
  3. LOW actuations proceed with a logged notice. windowcoverings_state and windowcoverings_set (blinds/curtains) print a notice to stderr and run without confirmation.
  4. Never lock someone out or in. Do not set locked to true unless the user explicitly asked for that lock to be locked; verify intent in conversation first.
  5. Reads (auth, devices, device, flows) never need confirmation.
  6. Homey Pro hardware or a Homey cloud account is required; local calls stay on the LAN.
  7. Never exfiltrate the credential: the CLI only ever handles surrogates. Do not print, log, or transmit the token value.

Files

  • SKILL.md
  • bin/homey.py

Maturity

🧪 Draft: written from Homey's public Web API docs; not yet live-tested end-to-end. Device capability reads and PUTs are pinned; the Flow-trigger path is an open item and ships marked untested.

Related Skills

View on GitHub
GitHub Stars1.3k
CategoryAutomation
Updated20d ago
Forks305

Languages

Python

Trust signals

100/100

From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.

No cautions