Develco Products is a Danish IoT company in Aarhus that makes Zigbee-based sensors, alarms, smart plugs and relays, plus the Squid.link gateway. Much of its range is sold as white-label hardware for other providers, and devices from the same designs reach consumers under the frient brand. Local control normally runs through a Zigbee coordinator in a platform such as Home Assistant, Homey or SmartThings, or through a Squid.link gateway.
Develco devices speak Zigbee, a local mesh protocol, so they pair with a Zigbee coordinator rather than joining Wi-Fi. The Squid.link gateway is Develco's own hub: Nabto describes it as a modular, open Linux platform with Zigbee, Z-Wave, WLAN, Bluetooth Low Energy and Wireless M-Bus, with a REST API reachable through a Nabto tunnel. The same device designs are also supported by third-party hubs, and the frient brand is listed in Home Assistant's Works with program and on SmartThings' partner site.
That suits people who already run, or plan to run, a Zigbee hub and want local sensors, smoke and leak alarms, sirens, energy meter readers and plugs that do not depend on a vendor cloud. It is weaker for anyone expecting a polished consumer app and voice assistant support from Develco itself: Develco Products is mainly a white-label supplier, and we found no consumer app of its own and no Matter announcement.
Connection
Zigbee, local mesh; Squid.link gateway
Voice assistants
Not found directly; via a hub
Matter
Not found
Open platforms
Home Assistant, Zigbee2MQTT, Homey, SmartThings
What can be connected
Safety and security Smoke, heat and water leak alarms, motion and entry sensors, sirens, keypads and buttons
Power and energy Smart plugs, smart cables, DIN relays, electricity meter interfaces and a Zigbee range extender
Gateway and environment Squid.link gateway, air quality and humidity sensors, IO module for wired devices
Gives remote access to a Squid.link Gateway made by Develco Products. It runs the gateway's web application in a secure browser and needs a Squid.link Gateway. Published by Nabto ApS, which supplies the remote-access technology, not by Develco. Listed for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision. We could not find or verify an Android version.
A Homey app for Develco-built Zigbee devices, posted by frient on the Homey community forum and listed on the Athom App Store. Its 1.0.0 changelog entry reads 'App store release of the Develco Products app'. It is a Homey app, not a standalone mobile app.
Zigbee is the main radio. Wikipedia describes Develco's devices as mainly Zigbee-based and meshing with each other, and Home Assistant states that frient Zigbee devices work locally and need a Zigbee stick. The Squid.link gateway holds Zigbee Home Automation and Zigbee Smart Energy certification (specification 1.2a, certified February 2016).
Nabto describes Squid.link as a flexible, modular, open Linux platform that connects networks of different technologies, naming Zigbee, Z-Wave, WLAN, Bluetooth Low Energy and Wireless M-Bus, with custom protocols possible. Wikipedia says the first generation launched in 2014 and the second in 2019.
Z-Wave, WLAN and Bluetooth Low Energy are named only as options on the Squid.link gateway. We found no Develco end devices on those radios and no Thread mention on the pages read.
The frient brand has a Works with SmartThings partner page, which says the Zigbee devices come from Onics, whose earlier name was Develco. The page lists device categories and does not explain setup, and it showed no products available in our region.
No Develco service found, but we could not open IFTTT's own catalogue to check.
Searched, no source
Open platforms and developer access
Home Assistant (ZHA)
Official
frient is a Works with Home Assistant partner for its Zigbee products, with 15 certified devices. Home Assistant says they work locally through its Zigbee integration (ZHA) and classes the integration as Local Push. The devices were tested with a Home Assistant Green, a Connect ZBT-1 and ZHA. No Home Assistant page for the Squid.link gateway itself was found.
Zigbee2MQTT lists Develco devices, for example the HESZB-120 fire detector with siren, which it notes is also sold as Frient 94431, and says it works without the vendor's bridge or gateway. Home Assistant's blog says the Works with team did not test frient with Zigbee2MQTT. Users in a Home Assistant forum thread reported mixed ZHA results and several favoured Zigbee2MQTT.
frient publishes a Zigbee app on the Athom App Store. Its first post says version 2.5.4 is fully compatible with Homey Pro and Homey Bridge, and the thread title is tagged Pro and Cloud. It covers about 37 model IDs: alarms, sensors, sirens, plugs, relays, meter interfaces and the IO module. We could not confirm whether Homey Cloud needs a Homey Bridge for Zigbee.
No dedicated Develco or frient integration found for these in our searches. Zigbee2MQTT output can be read by Node-RED and openHAB through MQTT, which we did not verify here.
Searched, no source
Squid.link REST API and Nabto
Official
Nabto says client apps can reach the gateway's REST API through the Nabto Tunnel and that developers can build custom solutions with its SDK. We could not open Develco's own developer documentation.
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 Develco Products
Does Develco Products support Matter?
Not that we could find. No Matter announcement or product found for Develco Products or frient when we searched.
Does Develco Products work with Alexa?
Unconfirmed. No direct Alexa support found for Develco devices. Access would be through a hub that exposes them, which we did not verify.
Does Develco Products work with Google Home?
Unconfirmed. No direct Google Home support found for Develco devices. Access would be through a hub that exposes them, which we did not verify.
Does Develco Products work with Apple Home (HomeKit)?
Unconfirmed. No direct Apple Home support found. We did not find a Homebridge or Matter route either.
Does Develco Products work with SmartThings?
Yes, officially. The frient brand has a Works with SmartThings partner page, which says the Zigbee devices come from Onics, whose earlier name was Develco. The page lists device categories and does not explain setup, and it showed no products available in our region.
Does Develco Products work with Homey?
Yes, officially. frient publishes a Zigbee app on the Athom App Store. Its first post says version 2.5.4 is fully compatible with Homey Pro and Homey Bridge, and the thread title is tagged Pro and Cloud. It covers about 37 model IDs: alarms, sensors, sirens, plugs, relays, meter interfaces and the IO module. We could not confirm whether Homey Cloud needs a Homey Bridge for Zigbee.
Answers come from the sourced table above. See how Develco Products compares with all brands on the smart home brand statistics page.