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REVIEW
Homey on LG webOS is a smart-home dashboard on the largest screen in the house.
Athom's Homey companion brings the smart-home hub to the living-room TV — useful as an at-a-glance status panel, awkward as a control surface.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 2 MIN READ
Homey on LG webOS is the TV-side window onto Athom’s smart-home hub — a status panel for the lights, thermostats, sensors, and automations a household has already wired up through the Homey Pro or Homey Bridge. It is not a standalone product, and it does not try to be one. The phone apps stay the place where flows get authored; the TV becomes the place where the household checks what is on, what is armed, and what is reading what.
That is a defensible role for a smart-home app on a living-room screen, and the right way to judge this app. Treated as a control room, the webOS Homey will frustrate — toggling devices through the Magic Remote works, but it is a translated interaction rather than a native one, and cloud-routed commands carry a small but noticeable delay. Treated as a status dashboard, it earns its place on the home screen. Athom has not over-promised, and the app does not over-reach.
The fair recommendation is narrow: existing Homey-hub households on LG webOS hardware should install it and let it sit. Everyone else can keep scrolling.
Homey on webOS is a status panel, not a control room — and that is the honest framing for a TV-resident smart-home app.
FEATURES
Homey on LG webOS is the TV-side companion to Athom B.V.'s Homey smart-home hub — the same Homey ecosystem (the platform, not the marketing word) that runs on the Homey Pro and Homey Bridge boxes. The webOS app is a viewer onto a hub the user already owns; it does not work standalone.
The app pairs to an existing Homey account and surfaces the rooms, devices, and flows configured on the hub. Day-to-day, that means a TV-screen view of which lights are on, what the thermostats are reading, what the cameras see, and which automations are armed. Toggling devices is possible from the Magic Remote, though the interaction model is built for phones and feels translated.
Category is Life, the app is free, and the install assumes the Homey hub is already on the home network. Without that, there is nothing to display.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The premise lands: a smart-home hub deserves a status view on the largest screen in the house, and Homey ships one. For households that keep the TV on as ambient hardware — sports, weather, a casual second screen — pulling up a Homey overview is a useful gesture. The Magic Remote's pointer makes navigating rooms and device tiles noticeably less painful than directional-pad navigation would.
Athom's discipline around the Homey brand shows. The app does not pretend to be a control panel for setting up automations from scratch; it accepts that the phone is where rules get authored and the TV is where state gets watched.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
Control latency over the LAN is fine; control latency through a cloud round-trip is not. Users on slower home networks will notice the delay when toggling a light from the TV, and the toggle-confirmation feedback on webOS is less precise than the iOS or Android app's haptics.
The webOS app also lags the phone clients on new Homey features — additions to the flow editor, new device drivers, and recent dashboard widgets typically arrive on mobile first and on TV later. Anyone who upgrades Homey hardware quickly will feel that gap.
CONCLUSION
Homey owners with an LG TV in the main living space should install it — the status-panel use case is real, and the cost is zero. Households without a Homey hub have no reason to open the listing. Watch for closer parity with the phone apps and for richer dashboard widgets; until then, this is a complement to the phone client, not a replacement.