frient is a Danish smart home brand built entirely on Zigbee, developed by Onics (formerly Develco Products). It makes safety, security and energy devices: smoke and heat alarms, entry and motion sensors, water leak and air quality sensors, sirens, keypads, smart plugs and electricity meter interfaces. The devices join a Zigbee network run by a gateway or platform you already own; we found no frient hub or standalone frient app.
frient devices speak Zigbee 3.0 and have no Wi-Fi of their own, so they need a Zigbee coordinator such as a Home Assistant Zigbee adapter, a Homey, SmartThings or another Zigbee hub. In one founder interview the company says it launched without a hub of its own so that its devices work with existing platforms. The Works with Home Assistant program requires certified devices to run locally without a cloud.
That suits people who already have, or plan to build, a Zigbee-based home with Home Assistant, Homey, Zigbee2MQTT or SmartThings and want sensors and alarms from one maker. It is weaker for anyone who wants a ready-made frient hub and app, and we found no frient voice assistant or Matter support.
Connection
Zigbee 3.0, through a Zigbee hub or coordinator
Voice assistants
Only through a hub's own assistant link; none documented by frient
Matter
Not found
Open platforms
Home Assistant (Works with), Homey app, Zigbee2MQTT
What can be connected
Safety and alarms Intelligent Smoke Alarm, heat alarm, water leak detector, smart siren, keypad and buttons
Sensors Entry, motion, vibration, air quality and humidity sensors
Energy and power Smart Plug Mini, smart cables, DIN relays, IO module and electricity meter interfaces
A Homey app that adds frient's Zigbee devices to Homey. The community thread lists smoke and heat alarms, sirens, entry, motion and vibration sensors, water leak detectors, plugs, relays, energy meter interfaces, air quality and humidity sensors, and says the devices are fully compatible with Homey Pro and Homey Bridge. The thread appears to be run by frient staff and says the app is on the Athom App Store, but we could not open the store page itself. This is the only frient-branded app we found.
None found. The co-founder interview on Homey's blog says frient launched without a hub, and the frient pages and manuals we read name no app or gateway. We could not confirm whether a frient gateway or app exists.
Compatibility, platform by platform
Official supported by the brandCommunity built by someone elseNot found searched, nothing foundUnconfirmed sources conflict or could not be opened
frient devices are Zigbee 3.0. The Smart Siren manual says it is Zigbee 3.0 certified, and the Zigbee Alliance (CSA) lists a Smoke Alarm certification under Onics A/S and Frient A/S. The Home Assistant team describes the devices as a local mesh that works without a cloud or Wi-Fi.
No frient hub found. In the Homey interview a co-founder says frient launched without a hub and works with existing platforms. A retailer says the smoke alarm needs a compatible Zigbee hub such as Homey, SmartThings or Smart Home by Hornbach.
None of these are mentioned for frient devices on the pages we read. Aeotec's support site files the Intelligent Smoke Alarm under Zigbee products with Zigbee 3.0 as the wireless protocol.
No frient statement found. Vesternet lists the Echo Zigbee Hub for its own Zigbee devices, but its page does not mention frient, so Alexa support is unconfirmed.
The retailer Vesternet answers customer questions that the Smart Plug Mini UK and the smart siren work with SmartThings, and lists SmartThings for the smoke alarm. We found no frient or Samsung page confirming it.
frient is a Works with Home Assistant partner (announced September 2025, brand added in Home Assistant 2025.8). It lists 15 certified Zigbee devices, tested through the ZHA integration with a Zigbee adapter, which run locally (Local Push). The integration page says it is community maintained, so the vendor does not maintain the core integration.
Zigbee2MQTT lists frient devices under the vendor name Develco, for example the Intelligent Smoke Alarm, also sold as Frient 94430 and Cavius 2103. Home Assistant's team says it did not test the certified devices with Zigbee2MQTT.
frient publishes a Zigbee app for Homey, listed in the Athom app store according to the thread, and says its devices are fully compatible with Homey Pro and Homey Bridge. The thread title tags Pro and Cloud, while the post text names Pro and Bridge. We could not open the store page. In the founder interview frient also says it wanted products to work with platforms like Homey.
No plugin or statement found, so this is unconfirmed.
Searched, no source
Control4
Not found
No integration found when we searched.
Searched, no source
IFTTT
Not found
No frient service found when we searched.
Searched, no source
Developer or local API
Not found
No frient developer or cloud API found. Home Assistant describes the devices as local Zigbee devices that work without a cloud.
Searched, no source
Checked 11 November 2026 against the brand's own pages, app store listings and each project's own page. “Not found” means we searched and found nothing, not that it is impossible. Compatibility changes often. Spot an error? Tell us and we will fix it.
Common questions about frient
Does frient support Matter?
Not that we could find. No frient Matter product or announcement found. Home Assistant's frient announcement names no Matter products.
Does frient work with Alexa?
Unconfirmed. No frient statement found. Vesternet lists the Echo Zigbee Hub for its own Zigbee devices, but its page does not mention frient, so Alexa support is unconfirmed.
Does frient work with Google Home?
Not that we could find. No frient page or integration found. Any Google Home use would depend on the Zigbee hub the devices are connected to; we did not verify one.
Does frient work with Apple Home (HomeKit)?
Not that we could find. No frient page or integration found when we searched.
Does frient work with Home Assistant?
Yes, officially. frient is a Works with Home Assistant partner (announced September 2025, brand added in Home Assistant 2025.8). It lists 15 certified Zigbee devices, tested through the ZHA integration with a Zigbee adapter, which run locally (Local Push). The integration page says it is community maintained, so the vendor does not maintain the core integration.
Does frient work with SmartThings?
Unconfirmed. The retailer Vesternet answers customer questions that the Smart Plug Mini UK and the smart siren work with SmartThings, and lists SmartThings for the smoke alarm. We found no frient or Samsung page confirming it.
Does frient work with Homey?
Yes, officially. frient publishes a Zigbee app for Homey, listed in the Athom app store according to the thread, and says its devices are fully compatible with Homey Pro and Homey Bridge. The thread title tags Pro and Cloud, while the post text names Pro and Bridge. We could not open the store page. In the founder interview frient also says it wanted products to work with platforms like Homey.
Does frient work with Hubitat?
Unconfirmed. No frient driver or statement found, so this is unconfirmed.
Answers come from the sourced table above. See how frient compares with all brands on the smart home brand statistics page.