Homey's software is always being improved. As an experimental update tester, you will receive updates before they are released to everyone, but these updates come at a cost – they potentially can contain bugs or missing features.
Setup instructions
- To enable experimental updates, visit Homey Developer Tools
- Log in with your account that is linked to your Homey Pro (Early 2023).
- Toggle the switch to enable/disable the experimental updates on your Homey Pro (Early 2023).
Warning: We recommend not enabling experimental updates unless you are a developer or are aware of the risks.
These experimental updates might be unstable, and after enabling you cannot revert to a stable firmware release without doing a factory reset. We advise to always have a backup with a stable firmware available, which can be used when there's an issue with the experimental update.
Homey Pro (Early 2023) allows you to create a local backup, or you can subscribe to Homey Pro Backups to create a cloud backup.
Local backup
When you connect your Homey Pro (Early 2023) to a PC/mac with USB, you can create a local backup. Before enabling experimental updates on your Homey Pro, we advise to create a local backup with a stable firmware release. When there's an issue with an experimental firmware release, you can restore this local backup to get things working again.
Homey Pro backups
When you're running an experimental update on your Homey Pro (Early 2023) and you're subscribed to Homey Pro backups, we advise to disable "automatic backups", so you can arrange that there's always a backup with a stable firmware release available in the cloud. Your cloud backups can be managed under your account.
When manually creating a backup of your Homey Pro (Early 2023) with an experimental firmware release, please disable "automatic updates" of Homey Pro's firmware before creating a backup. When you restore this backup after experiencing issues with the latest experimental firmware release, your Homey Pro can go back to a previous experimental firmware release without automatically upgrading the firmware again.
iOS app
To get the experimental version of our app updates, iOS users can additionally join the TestFlight program here: testflight.apple.com/join/tA2e9vby.
Android app
Android users can additionally join the Open Beta program here: play.google.com/apps/testing/app.homey.
