Homeseer Review

Friday, July 11th

2025 Home Automation Company Reviews

Homeseer

• Smart home hub starts at $135
• Automation for light switches, sensors, thermostat, and more
• Buy individual items as needed
• Don't need to pay a programmer to integrate new components
• DIY-friendly
• Buy individual items as needed

With over two decades of experience, Homeseer stands out as a top provider of smart home solutions. The company's mission revolves around prioritizing the essentials and saving you money by avoiding the high pricing and maintenance of more professional systems.

DIY home automation

The smart home hubs and software offered by Homeseer aim to combine the reliability, security, and performance of locally managed automation with the global connectivity provided by emerging cloud technologies. The goal of Homeseer is to incorporate devices that are easy to install and budget-friendly. However, like some of the other options in our review, Homeseer requires a DIY element, which means you may need a little tech expertise to fully make use of this system.

Smart home products sold here

Unlike some of the other DIY-style home automation sites on our list, Homeseer offers smart home devices along with hubs and software. While you still have to piece together everything you want, rather than buying it in an all-inclusive package, you can buy just what you need and get everything all in one place. You can expect to find hubs, software, lighting, z-wave products, home sensors, and water management technology. While there are plenty of options, some products redirect you to other sellers, and it can be unclear what you actually need to buy if you're starting from scratch.

Website isn't great for beginners

Getting started on Homeseer isn't the easiest task. It isn't immediately clear from the front page if you just start buying items to upgrade your home or if there's a correct order of operations. They offer items like smart hubs, smart home software, smart lighting, and Z-Wave sensors. However, there isn't a quick guide or tutorial on what you need to buy in order to get started. There is a "Help” tab, but all of the help options are organized by each individual item you might need to buy rather than a tutorial on what you need and how to set it up.

Pick-and-choose your pricing

Since you have to buy each element separately, the pricing for Homeseer is all over the place. For example, the cheapest smart home device from Homeseer is a sensor for $9.50. The most expensive item is a hub for $799. So, to get a baseline, let's imagine a basic package includes the following: 4 sensors around your house (one on each side of the house), 10 smart light switches (at $49 each), a hub, and a software option ($199). Your total would be $1,526. This is far less expensive (by orders of magnitude) than the more professional (and expensive) all-in-one systems in our review.

Not locked in to one vendor

One of the advantages of DIY solutions like Homeseer and Home Assistant is that you're not locked into one vendor for your smart devices. For example, Homeseer sells their own light of smart wall switches to control lights in your home. However, if you don't like the look of the Homeseer light switches, you can choose smart switches from other companies - such as Leviton or Lutron (or others) - which integrate with Homeseer.

Add automations between components

Plus, you can automate these disparate 3rd party components. Do you want to automatically lower your window shades, turn on the outside flood lights, turn on indoor led light red, and turn on a tv, if your backyard gate is opened between 11pm and 4am during the weekdays? Homeseer ties all these components together. More professional systems may or may not be able to do this - but it will cost you thousands more - and you'll be waiting on their programmers. Homeseer lets you do all this with their configuration screens, without any programming. As smart technology evolves, and new products are brought to market by various companies, DIY solutions are better positioned to take advantage of these advances and their compoents.

Add-ons for developers

If you're a developer, and you love technology, you might enjoy this product more than the average homeowner. This is because Homeseer allows you to create your own software plugins if you want to add or create new product integrations for your home. While this is a feature that won't matter to most customers, the availability of diving into the code yourself may appeal to the most technically savvy of homeowners.

30 day refund policy

We were glad to see that Homeseer offers an extremely reasonable refund policy. For most items that Homeseer sells, they offer a 30 day no-questions-asked 100% full refund (minus shipping costs) for unbroken items purchased through their site. This gives you a good opportunity to try the item and see if it works for your home. If you can't provide the item with its original documentation and packaging, you may be charged a restock fee up to 15%.

Great business practices but few customer ratings

While Homeseer currently holds an "A+” rating from the Better Business Bureau, it was difficult to find many third-party reviews. In fact, we only found 2 posted customer reviews - not enough to tell us anything. There is an active user community on sites like Reddit and the Homeseer forums. We found a lot of people answering questions on these sites, mainly having to do with configuring devices and troubleshooting 3rd party integrations.

Great solution for the DIYer

Homeseer is a very good product for the homeowner who isn't afraid to set up a system themselves and wants to avoid the high purchase and maintenance cost of professional systems. Despite the small learning curve in getting started (we recommend reaching out to Homeseer directly or taking a look at their forums to get what you need), Homeseer integrates with a wide range of products and positions you to quickly use new technology as it becomes available.