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Do you want to attract new customers and boost sales in your webshop or physical store? The smart home business is booming, and with frient smart home devices in your shop you can offer reliable, high-quality smart home products to your customers.

Looking for a second opinion on the frient products? Then take a look at this review from RepairGuyDK that covers many of the frients.

With a smart keypad, you can easily and securely manage access to your home. You can use it to enable or disable your alarm system and give access to whoever needs to enter your home - without having to give out physical keys. 

The friently Air Quality Sensor will remind you to open the window before you get dizzy from the scents of the different cleaning detergents.

Have you ever wished your sofa could clean itself after a cozy movie night with popcorn, soda, and plenty of snacks? Now it's possible with the latest in smart home technology – the new Self-Cleaning Smart Sofa from frient launching April 1!

Homey users, this one is for you. The Intelligent Keypad works with Homey just like all the other frients do. Keep intruders away and be greeted with a friently welcome home with the Intelligent Keypad.

Do you have a Homey hub for your smart home? Great news – now you can connect the sirens of your frient alarms in the Intelligent Smoke Alarm, Heat Alarm, and Water Leak Detector so if one alarm goes off, they all go off. Learn how in this blog post.

This new frient gives you secure access control and keyless entry to your home - and it even lights up in the dark.

Are you a Homey user? Now you can add extra comfortability and ease to your home with the friently Smart Button that lets you start smart home automations with just one push of a button.

Want to lower your electricity bill? Here’s a new frient who’ll help you do just that. With the Smart DIN Relay, you’ll gain the information and control you need to become energy smart and cut down your electricity bill.

If you're a Homey user, you can now level up your smart home security with the Smart Siren. In case of an intrusion, it can give off a loud alarm sound and scare away intruders.

Are you living in Norway? Then you can now get a better overview of your electricity consumption (and save money) with the EMI Norwegian HAN. Easily installed on your meter, this frient gives you the knowledge you need to reduce your energy consumption.

Good news for all Homey users. You can now use all the frients with Homey. New features include support of the Smart Siren and Smart Button, interconnectivity for the frient alarms, and adjustments to the Electricity Meter Interface.

A humid environment can cause mold, which increases the risk of several health issues. A humidity detector monitors and reports the moisture of the surrounding environment to help you keep it healthy. Here's how.

If you want to spend less time worrying this year, we have the cure for you. Set up friently smart home devices that let you know that the kids are OK at home or that you, in fact, didn't forget to close that window.

A smart siren lets you know if someone enters your home unauthorized. Using its loud siren sound, it also scares away intruders. Check out more features of smart sirens.

Get to know the French blogger Antoine Guilberg's opinion of the friently Motion Sensor Pro and find out how to connect it to Home Assistant.

Need some help finding a Christmas present for the man in your life? Here's a helping hand. By matching his type of personality with frient devices, you’ll get him the perfect Christmas present.

Learn how the friently Smart Button can make Christmas time even more jolly, cozy, effortless, and safe.

With a smart cable, you can convert conventional cables into remotely controlled units. This way, you can turn on and off connected electrical appliances remotely. Here's how.

Use the Air Quality Sensor with SmartThings and ensure optimal air quality in your home.

Use the Entry Sensor Pro with SmartThings and be alerted instantly if someone opens a door or window.

Use the Motion Sensor Pro with SmartThings and monitor movement, light, and temperature from afar.

Use the Intelligent Heat Alarm with SmartThings and you won't be disturbed by false alarms from your cooking or fireplace.

Your friently Motion Sensor keeps track of the movement in your home so that you can always have peace of mind.

Zigbee smart plugs allow you to control electrical appliances remotely. Some Zigbee smart plugs also work as energy monitors. Get to know a friently plug that'll help you gain intelligent control of your home.

New drivers are available for the frient products on SmartThings that let you use new frients with your hub and expand the functionality of your existing frients.

The frient Smart Cable helps you automate the bigger things at home - for example your stove or air conditioning. Just like with a smart plug, you can turn your devices on and off remotely, embed them in your home automations and monitor their energy consumption.

Black Friday is less than 2 months away. High time to stock up on frient products to make sure they arrive in time and you're ready to sell many frients on Black Friday. 

Make a new frient: the Smart Siren. The Zigbee siren helps you scare away intruders with a loud alarm sound and makes sure your home is always safe. The siren also functions as a range extender so that you can add more devices to your smart home.

Do you want to know how a Smart Button can make your life at home easier? Read this article and find out.

With a smart smoke detector, you’ll get an instant fire warning while at home and when you're away. Here's how.

The slim and elegant Water Leak Detector Probe is the best right frient hand any Water Leak Detector can ask for. This Zigbee frient can fit into any nook and cranny to make sure no leakage goes undetected.

A water leak detector saves you from costly damage caused by water leaks or flooding in your home. Here's how.

Smart plugs are versatile little devices for your home. They connect your appliances to your smart home so you can remote control and automate them, and measure the energy consumption. Get to know 5 ways of using a smart plug in this article.

The Danish smart home blog Mette Siger Nej has done a review of the Electricity Meter Interface showing how precise the device is and much more. Check the review.

The friently Motion Sensor Pro allows you to automate your lights depending on the movement at home. With this Zigbee device you can have peace of mind knowing that you'll never come to a dark home again.

Get an expert’s opinion on the Electricity Meter Interface

Heat detectors are used to detect fires. The difference between a heat detector and a smoke detector is how they are triggered. Check out how a heat detector works.

With both the Intelligent Smoke Alarm and Intelligent Heat Alarm in place, you can fully protect your home from fires. You can have peace of mind in knowing that no matter where you are, your frients will let you know if there is a fire emergency.

Multisensors combine several features in just one device. Examples of combined features are movement, light, and temperature or open/close and temperature. Which multipurpose sensor matches your needs?

All frient resellers from Croatia can now source the frient products from Visio Domus, a B2B smart home distributor.

Looking for a smart way to protect your home from intruders? The Smart Siren is the right frient for you then – and it’s now available on the European Amazon Marketplaces.

All German fans of frient can buy the Zigbee-based smart home products at the German store Smaart.Haus.

The frient smart home products are now sold at German DIY store Hornbach. Take a look at their website and get your new frient today.

The frient devices are compatible with SMART HOME by hornbach. Read this article to get to know the many different things you can do with the frient devices and a hub from SMART HOME by hornbach.

Do you live in Norway? Then you can buy the frients at Elektroimportøren's online shop and in many of their stores around the country. Stop by and get the shortcut to peace of mind.

Looking for new devices for your smart home? Then you’ll definitely want to take a look at this video review of the Intelligent Smoke Alarm, Motion Sensor Pro, and Entry Sensor Pro.

Get your frients from Robbshop - a web shop specialized in smart home that has a wide range and knowledge of all the different smart products out there.

"Beautiful and especially small plugs", "Very smart and really useful - highly recommended and really compatible" - these and more statements were left by frient customers in online shops.

With a couple of frients, you can check on your home remotely and have peace of mind that they'll notify you the second something is out of order.