Effortlessly manage your Samsung Smart TVs, appliances, and a wide range of SmartThings-compatible devices with the powerful SmartThings app. This versatile platform allows you to connect and control your smart home devices with ease, offering a centralized hub for all your smart home needs.
SmartThings boasts compatibility with hundreds of smart home brands, ensuring that you can control everything from your Samsung Smart TV to your smart home appliances all in one convenient place. Whether you're connecting Samsung smart TVs, smart appliances, smart speakers, or integrating with popular brands like Ring, Nest, and Philips Hue, SmartThings makes it simple to manage your entire smart ecosystem from a single app.
Enhance your smart home experience by utilizing voice commands through assistants like Alexa, Bixby, and Google Assistant. With SmartThings, controlling your devices becomes as easy as speaking a command.
Key Features
- Remotely monitor and control your home from anywhere in the world.
- Automate your home with routines based on time, weather, or device status for seamless operation.
- Share control with family members or guests by granting access to other users.
- Stay informed with real-time status updates and automated notifications about your devices.
While SmartThings is optimized for Samsung smartphones, some features may be limited on other vendors' devices. Availability of certain features may also vary by country. For added convenience, you can install SmartThings on Wear OS-based watches, though functionality is contingent on the watch being connected to a mobile phone. Add a SmartThings tile to your watch for quick access to routines and device control, and use SmartThings complications to jump straight into the app from your watch face.
App Requirements
To ensure smooth operation, your mobile device should have at least 2GB of RAM. Samsung Galaxy users can also utilize Smart View for screen mirroring.
App Permissions
SmartThings requires certain permissions to function at its best. While optional, these permissions enhance your experience:
- Location: Enables device location, 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 timely updates about your SmartThings devices and features.
- Camera: Facilitates QR code scanning for easy addition of members and devices.
- Microphone: Assists in adding specific devices using high-frequency sounds.
- Storage: (Android 9-11) Used for saving data and sharing content.
- Files and Media: (Android 12) Enables data saving and content sharing.
- Photos and Videos: (Android 13 and above) Allows playback of photos and videos on SmartThings devices.
- Music and Audio: (Android 13 and above) Enables sound and video playback on SmartThings devices.
- Phone: (Android 9) Facilitates calls on smart speakers and displays information about shared content.
- Phone: (Android 10 and above) Supports calls on smart speakers.
- Contacts: (Android 9) Retrieves phone numbers for text message notifications and identifies content senders.
- Contacts: (Android 10 and above) Retrieves phone numbers for text message notifications.
- Physical Activity: (Android 10 and above) Detects the start of pet walks.
Note that you can still use the app without these optional permissions, though some functionalities may be limited.
