Effortlessly control your Samsung Smart TVs, appliances, and a wide array of SmartThings-compatible devices with the SmartThings app. This powerful platform allows you to quickly and easily connect and manage your smart home ecosystem, bringing convenience right to your fingertips.
SmartThings boasts compatibility with hundreds of leading smart home brands, enabling you to centralize control of all your gadgets. Whether it's your Samsung Smart TV, smart home appliances, smart speakers, or devices from popular brands like Ring, Nest, and Philips Hue, SmartThings integrates them seamlessly into one unified app.
Enhance your smart home experience by connecting, monitoring, and controlling multiple devices with unprecedented ease. With SmartThings, you can leverage voice assistants like Alexa, Bixby, and Google Assistant to manage your devices effortlessly.
Key Features
- Monitor and control your home remotely from any location, ensuring peace of mind wherever you go.
- Create personalized routines triggered by time, weather, or device status, allowing your home to operate smoothly in the background.
- Share control by granting access to other users, perfect for family members or housemates.
- Stay informed with real-time status updates and automated notifications about your smart devices.
While SmartThings is optimized for Samsung smartphones, some features may be limited on devices from other manufacturers. Additionally, availability of certain features can vary by country. You can also extend SmartThings functionality to Wear OS-based smartwatches, where quick access to routines and device control is available directly from your wrist. Adding a SmartThings tile to your watchface and using SmartThings complications provide instant access to the app's services.
App Requirements
To ensure optimal performance, your mobile device should have at least 2GB of RAM. Samsung Galaxy users can benefit from Smart View for seamless screen mirroring.
App Permissions
SmartThings requires certain permissions to function at its best. While the app can operate without these optional permissions, some features may be limited.
Optional Access Permissions
- Location: Utilized for device location, creating location-based routines, and Wi-Fi scanning for nearby devices.
- Nearby Devices: (Android 12 and above) Enables Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) scanning for nearby devices.
- Notifications: (Android 13 and above) Delivers updates on SmartThings devices and features.
- Camera: Facilitates QR code scanning for adding members and devices to SmartThings.
- Microphone: Assists in adding specific devices using high-frequency sounds.
- Storage: (Android 9 to 11) Allows data saving and content sharing.
- Files and Media: (Android 12) Used for data saving and content sharing.
- Photos and Videos: (Android 13 and above) Enables playback on SmartThings devices.
- Music and Audio: (Android 13 and above) Facilitates sound and video playback on SmartThings devices.
- Phone: (Android 9) Supports calling on smart speakers and displays information about shared content.
- Phone: (Android 10 and above) Allows calling on smart speakers.
- Contacts: (Android 9) Retrieves contact phone numbers for text notifications and identifies content senders.
- Contacts: (Android 10 and above) Retrieves contact phone numbers for text notifications.
- Physical Activity: (Android 10 and above) Detects the start of pet walks.
