Samsung has up to date SmartThings, its app that lets customers management the corporate’s IoT gadgets, with new house automation capabilities in an obvious bid to cross-sell extra of its good house gadgets and home equipment to current prospects.
In addition to the automation options, customers will get new integrations with the Samsung Health app, an intercom characteristic, and assist for extra gadgets by means of the Matter 1.4 good house connectivity customary.
The app’s “Routines” characteristic — like Apple’s Shortcuts and IFTTT, that is basically a fundamental, no-code conditional programming interface that may set off duties — has been up to date to allow a very good quantity of house automation.
Customers can now set routines to be repeated each week, each month, or yearly, and SmartThings’ integration with the Health app and new 2025 Samsung TV fashions now allows you to arrange automations, like having the lights mechanically flip off if you go to mattress, or have the TV begin on a selected channel within the morning.
SmartThings can now additionally hook up with Samsung Health to ship sleep stories on Galaxy gadgets that present metrics resembling temperature, humidity, CO2 ranges, and lighting depth. This sleep monitoring additionally ties in with the routines characteristic.
The app can even now drop voice messages to SmartThings-connected audio system at house. Notably, Samsung could be very late in bringing this characteristic to its ecosystem, as Amazon’s Echo sequence of gadgets have been ready to do that since 2017, and Apple launched an analogous characteristic for HomePods in 2020.
With the Matter 1.4 customary, SmartThings now additionally helps gadgets like water heaters, warmth pumps, solar energy gadgets, and batteries, in addition to mounted on-off switches and mounted dimmable load management gadgets.
