SmartThings

Unlock the full potential of your smart home with Samsung's SmartThings platform. Seamlessly control your Samsung Smart TVs, appliances, and a wide array of SmartThings-compatible devices all from one convenient app. SmartThings integrates with hundreds of leading smart home brands, ensuring that you can manage all your gadgets—be it your Samsung Smart TV, smart appliances, smart speakers, or products from Ring, Nest, and Philips Hue—in one centralized location.

With SmartThings, connecting, monitoring, and controlling your smart home devices is quicker and easier than ever. Enhance your experience by using voice commands through popular assistants like Alexa, Bixby, and Google Assistant, allowing for hands-free operation of your smart home ecosystem.

Key Features

• Remotely control and monitor your home from anywhere in the world.
• Create personalized routines triggered by time, weather, or device status to automate your home's functionality.
• Share control with family members or trusted individuals by granting them access to your SmartThings app.
• Stay informed with real-time status updates and automated notifications about your devices.

SmartThings is optimized for Samsung smartphones, ensuring a seamless experience, though some features may have limitations when used with other brands. Availability of certain features may vary by country. Additionally, SmartThings extends its functionality to Wear OS-based smartwatches, offering quick access to routines and device controls directly from your wrist. To enhance your smartwatch experience, add the SmartThings tile and complications to your watchface for direct access to the app's services.

App Requirements

To ensure a smooth operation of SmartThings, your mobile device should have at least 2GB of RAM. For Samsung Galaxy users, Smart View is required for screen mirroring capabilities.

App Permissions

SmartThings requires certain permissions to function optimally. While the app can be used without granting optional permissions, some features may be limited:

• Location: Enables device location, location-based routines, and Wi-Fi scanning for nearby devices.
• Nearby Devices: (Android 12 and above) Scans for nearby devices using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE).
• Notifications: (Android 13 and above) Delivers notifications about SmartThings devices and features.
• Camera: Scans QR codes for easy addition of members and devices.
• Microphone: Adds devices using high-frequency sounds.
• Storage: (Android 9-11) Saves data and shares content.
• Files and Media: (Android 12) Saves data and shares content.
• Photos and Videos: (Android 13 and above) Plays photos and videos on SmartThings devices.
• Music and Audio: (Android 13 and above) Plays sound and video on SmartThings devices.
• Phone: (Android 9) Makes calls on smart speakers and displays information about content sharers.
• Phone: (Android 10 and above) Makes calls on smart speakers.
• Contacts: (Android 9) Retrieves contact phone numbers for text notifications and displays sender names.
• Contacts: (Android 10 and above) Retrieves contact phone numbers for text notifications.
• Physical Activity: (Android 10 and above) Detects the start of pet walks.

By leveraging SmartThings, you can create a truly connected and automated home environment that enhances your daily life and keeps you in control, no matter where you are.