Smart up your home with the frients and SMART HOME by hornbach
Good news for all current and future smart home users in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands: Most of the frient products are now compatible with the hub from SMART HOME by hornbach. You can see the full list of compatible products here.
With HORNBACH and frient devices, it becomes easy for you to automate and protect your home.
The hub connects the different appliances in your home and helps you automate lighting, heating, blinds, and multimedia, and lets you protect your home from intruders.
On HORNBACH’s German website, you can find many articles about the possibilities a smart home gives you and get inspired for your smart home setup.
Don’t speak German? No problem, we’re giving you an overview of the most important benefits below:
- All-around home protection from intruders, fires, and water leaks
- Optimized electricity consumption
- Stay connected with your elderly loved ones
All-around home protection from intruders, fires, and water leaks
With the right sensors and setup, your smart home functions as an all-around security system as it keeps you up to date with what is going on in your home – whether you’re at home or away.
- Avoid break-ins
For smart home beginners: Install the friently Entry Sensors on your doors and windows, connect them to the HORNBACH hub, and you’ll know immediately if someone tries to enter your home. You can also add a Smart Siren, and it’ll play a loud alarm sound scaring away the intruders
For smart home experts: If you want to take intruder protection to the next level, you can connect your lights (for instance with the Smart Plug Mini) to your smart home and light up the home in case of an intrusion. - Fight fires instantly
For smart home beginners: The Intelligent Smoke Alarm and Intelligent Heat Alarm don’t just warn you about a fire with a loud sound when you’re at home. They also send you a notification on your phone via your HORNBACH hub so that you can react or call for help immediately.
For smart home experts: Install additional frient Smart Sirens in your home to make sure you’ll hear an alarm even if it goes off in your basement. With Smart Plug Minis, you can also turn on the lights automatically to make it easy to get out quickly.
- Stay on top of water leaks
For smart home beginners: With a hub from HORNBACH and a Water Leak Detector, you will be notified immediately in cases of water leakages – both with a loud alarm and on your smartphone.
For smart home experts: Just like with fire alarms, you can also connect an additional frient Smart Siren to alert you of a water leak in all parts of your home.
Optimized electricity consumption
Your smart home makes it easy for you to get to know how much electricity your appliances are consuming, automatically or remotely turn them on and off, and reduce their standby consumption.
For smart home beginners: You don’t need to buy all new smart appliances to connect your lights, TV, fridge, or kettle to your smart home. Simply plug in a frient Smart Plug Mini, and you can turn them on and off via your phone via your HORNBACH hub or set up schedules when they should be turned on and off.
For smart home experts: Add a frient Motion Sensor to your smart home, and you can link your lights and appliances to the activity in your home. Perfect for someone who doesn’t have regular schedules, so that automations set at certain hours are not as useful.
Stay connected with your elderly loved ones
Do you have an elderly loved one whom you worry about because they are living alone? Are you wondering what if something happens and they can’t get help? Install some smart sensors in your loved one’s home, and you will know immediately if something is wrong.
For smart home beginners: Install frient Motion Sensors and Entry Sensors in your Grandparent’s home, and you can check up on their activity and be notified of any irregularities: You’ll know if she doesn’t get up in the morning or if she hasn’t come home and can check on her if everything is fine.
For smart home experts: Expand your grandma’s smart home with a frient Smart Plug Mini and you can remotely control your loved one’s appliances. Set up an automation to get notified if the iron is running for an unusually long time, and you can turn it off when they forgot.
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