Effortlessly manage your Samsung Smart TVs, home appliances, and other SmartThings-compatible devices with the power of the SmartThings app. Designed to streamline your smart home experience, SmartThings offers a seamless way to connect and control a wide array of smart devices from your smartphone.
SmartThings is your one-stop solution for smart home management, integrating with hundreds of top smart home brands. Whether it's your Samsung Smart TV, smart appliances, or gadgets from brands like Ring, Nest, and Philips Hue, you can oversee everything from a single, intuitive app.
With SmartThings, connecting, monitoring, and controlling your smart home devices becomes faster and more straightforward. Integrate your Samsung smart TVs, smart appliances, smart speakers, and other compatible devices into your SmartThings ecosystem. Enhance your control further by utilizing voice commands through popular assistants such as Alexa, Bixby, and Google Assistant.
Key Features
- Remotely manage and monitor your home from anywhere in the world
- Automate your home with routines triggered by time, weather, or device status, ensuring your home operates smoothly behind the scenes
- Share control with family or friends by granting access to other users
- Stay informed with real-time status updates and automated notifications about your smart devices
While SmartThings is optimized for Samsung smartphones, some features may vary when used with other devices. Availability of certain features may also differ by country. For on-the-go control, SmartThings is also available on Wear OS-based watches, providing quick access to routines and device management directly from your wrist when connected to your mobile phone.
App Requirements
To ensure the best performance, your device should have at least 2GB of RAM. Samsung Galaxy users can benefit from Smart View for enhanced screen mirroring capabilities.
App Permissions
SmartThings requires certain permissions to function optimally. While the app can be used without these 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) Utilizes Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to scan for nearby devices
- Notifications: (Android 13 and above) Sends alerts about SmartThings devices and features
- Camera: Scans QR codes to add members and devices effortlessly
- Microphone: Assists in adding devices via 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 media on SmartThings devices
- Music and Audio: (Android 13 and above) Streams audio and video on SmartThings devices
- Phone: (Android 9) Facilitates calls on smart speakers and displays information about shared content
- Phone: (Android 10 and above) Enables calls 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
With SmartThings, take full control of your smart home ecosystem, ensuring everything works in harmony, no matter where you are.