Samsung's Smartthings App Gets More Home Automation Capabilities

Samsung has updated SmartThings, its app that lets users power nan company’s IoT devices, pinch caller location automation capabilities successful an evident bid to cross-sell much of its smart location devices and appliances to existing customers.

Besides nan automation features, users will get caller integrations pinch nan Samsung Health app, an intercom feature, and support for much devices done nan Matter 1.4 smart location connectivity standard.

The app’s “Routines” characteristic — for illustration Apple’s Shortcuts and IFTTT, this is fundamentally a basic, no-code conditional programming interface that tin trigger tasks — has been updated to alteration a bully magnitude of location automation.

Users tin now group routines to beryllium repeated each week, each month, aliases each year, and SmartThings’ integration pinch nan Health app and caller 2025 Samsung TV models now enables you to group up automations, for illustration having nan lights automatically move disconnected erstwhile you spell to bed, aliases person nan TV commencement connected a circumstantial transmission successful nan morning.

SmartThings tin now besides link to Samsung Health to nonstop slumber reports connected Galaxy devices that supply metrics specified arsenic temperature, humidity, CO2 levels, and lighting intensity. This slumber search besides ties successful pinch nan routines feature.

The app tin besides now driblet sound messages to SmartThings-connected speakers astatine home. Notably, Samsung is very precocious successful bringing this characteristic to its ecosystem, arsenic Amazon’s Echo bid of devices person been capable to do this since 2017, and Apple introduced a akin characteristic for HomePods successful 2020.

With nan Matter 1.4 standard, SmartThings now besides supports devices for illustration h2o heaters, power pumps, star powerfulness devices, and batteries, arsenic good arsenic mounted on-off switches and mounted dimmable load power devices.