Sam Feldt is a Dutch DJ who helped shape the tropical house genre. His Amsterdam home looks traditional from the street. Inside, it used to be two separate houses, each with its own energy meter, duplicated systems, and rooms that changed purpose in renovation. Today, it works as one home, with Homey at the center.
Sam has been a Homey user since the Kickstarter days, when Homey was still a white sphere with a glowing ring. “I remember wondering what this device was actually going to do for my home,” he says. Years later, during the renovation, that question finally had a clear answer.
Joining what used to be separate
The property started as two neighboring homes. Joining them wasn’t just a matter of knocking through a wall. Behind the new interior, there were still two smart energy meters and separate systems to deal with.
Sam asked his installer what should connect everything into one system. The answer came back quickly: Homey.
He already knew Homey well. For this house, he upgraded to Homey Pro, giving it a much bigger job: connect lighting, curtains, sound, climate, security, the sauna, and energy across both former houses. The idea was to treat the whole place as one home rather than two.
Dashboards on every floor
On every floor, an iPad is mounted as a dedicated Homey Dashboard. “Some people might think that’s a waste of an iPad,” Sam says. “But it works incredibly well.”
Each dashboard is built for the floor it’s on. Sam can control the lights in each room, switch between Moods, check energy use, start favorite Flows, control music, and quickly reach devices like the air conditioning.
That keeps each floor manageable. If something needs adjusting, the answer is on the wall, not buried in an app.
Turning the old kitchen into a booth
The DJ booth sits on the top floor, just below the rooftop terrace. It used to be the kitchen. Now it has surround speakers, motorized curtains, and ambient lighting around the room. Homey coordinates them. In the booth, one action can close the curtains, shift the lights, and bring the sound to the right level.
Moods let Sam save lighting scenes for different parts of the house, from an evening at home to time in the booth. Flows handle the routines around them, like closing the curtains at sunset or changing the lighting based on presence or time of day.
One of Sam’s favorites is the “Welcome Home” Flow. Whenever he arrives, a single tap turns on the lights and opens the curtains. “It’s a simple automation,” he says, “but it’s one of those little things that really makes Homey feel like home.”
Keeping track of two meters
Because the house used to be two properties, Sam still has two separate energy meters. That could make energy monitoring messy, but Homey lets him track both meters from one place.
He uses a Homey Energy Dongle on each meter, so he can see how much each part of the house is using. “I love how I can simply connect two Homey Energy Dongles and the Energy tab just combines their values,” he says.
The sauna is the example he comes back to. “Yeah, I like to keep an eye on energy,” Sam says. “Especially because I have some setups that can use a lot. Take my sauna, for instance.”
After a session, it’s easy to forget that the Huum sauna is still running. In Homey, the energy graph shows it right away. One tap on the widget, and it’s off.
What he wants to build next
Sam wants to do more with his energy data next: a home battery, more room-level insight, and smarter control over larger devices.
Between touring, studio work, and life with a young son, the time to dig into that is limited. “It works so much better when you are actually there to see it work immediately,” he says.
Still, when Sam walks through the door, the house no longer feels like two separate properties. It behaves like one home.
Curious what comes out on that top-floor booth? Find Sam on Spotify.
