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Homey Enables Port Forwarding

By Sam Brandhild | Published Aug 17, 2024
Aug 17, 2024 10:48
Homey Enables Port Forwarding

If you like to optimize your smart home to the fullest and own a Homey, it may be time to enable port forwarding. It's now possible to make your Homey experience a little better and faster.

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If you are not familiar with port forwarding then this is a setup you make in your router. You simply connect a specific port to a specific device, in this case your Homey. This way, you get direct access to your Homey when you're off your network and can therefore bypass Homey's cloud service. This will allow your Homey to react faster to your commands. And not only that, the Homey app has also gotten itself an update to load a little faster when you launch the app.

Read more about how to go about it Homey's Blog.