Effortlessly manage your Samsung Smart TVs, appliances, and a wide array of SmartThings-compatible devices with the power of the SmartThings app. Designed to streamline your smart home experience, SmartThings serves as a central hub, allowing you to connect and control all your smart gadgets in one convenient place.
SmartThings boasts compatibility with hundreds of smart home brands, ensuring you can integrate devices like your Samsung Smart TV, smart appliances, smart speakers, and even products from popular brands such as Ring, Nest, and Philips Hue. This comprehensive compatibility means you can orchestrate your entire smart home ecosystem from a single, user-friendly app.
With SmartThings, not only can you connect and monitor your devices quickly, but you can also control them with ease. Enhance your smart home interaction by using voice assistants like Alexa, Bixby, and Google Assistant to manage your devices hands-free.
Key Features
- Control and monitor your home from anywhere in the world, ensuring peace of mind and convenience.
- Create personalized routines triggered by time, weather, or device status to automate your home's functionality seamlessly.
- Share control with family members or trusted individuals, making home management a collaborative effort.
- Stay informed with real-time status updates and automated notifications about your devices.
While SmartThings is optimized for Samsung smartphones, certain features may be limited on devices from other manufacturers. Additionally, availability of some features may vary by country. SmartThings extends its functionality to Wear OS-based watches, offering quick access to routines and device control directly from your wrist. However, SmartThings for Wear OS requires a connection to a mobile phone to operate fully.
App Requirements
To ensure seamless performance, your mobile device should have at least 2GB of RAM. For Galaxy users, Smart View supports screen mirroring, enhancing your SmartThings experience.
App Permissions
SmartThings requires certain permissions to function at its best. While you can use the app without granting optional permissions, some features may be limited:
- Location: Enables device location tracking, location-based routines, and Wi-Fi scanning for nearby devices.
- Nearby Devices: (Android 12 and above) Allows Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) scanning for nearby devices.
- Notifications: (Android 13 and above) Provides updates on SmartThings devices and features.
- Camera: Facilitates easy addition of members and devices through QR code scanning.
- Microphone: Used for adding certain devices via high-frequency sounds.
- Storage: (Android 9-11) Enables data saving and content sharing.
- Files and Media: (Android 12) Supports data saving and content sharing.
- Photos and Videos: (Android 13 and above) Allows playing media on SmartThings devices.
- Music and Audio: (Android 13 and above) Enables playing sound and video on SmartThings devices.
- Phone: (Android 9) Facilitates calls on smart speakers and displays information about content sharers.
- Phone: (Android 10 and above) Supports calls on smart speakers.
- Contacts: (Android 9) Retrieves contact phone numbers for text message notifications and displays names of content senders.
- Contacts: (Android 10 and above) Retrieves contact phone numbers for text message notifications.
- Physical Activity: (Android 10 and above) Detects the start of pet walks.
