DownloadEffortlessly manage your smart home ecosystem with Samsung's SmartThings app. Designed to streamline the control of your Samsung Smart TVs, appliances, and a vast array of SmartThings-compatible devices, this app brings unparalleled convenience to your fingertips. With compatibility spanning hundreds of smart home brands, including Ring, Nest, and Philips Hue, SmartThings serves as your central hub for all your smart home gadgets, ensuring you can manage everything in one convenient place.
SmartThings empowers you to connect, monitor, and control multiple smart home devices with remarkable ease. From your Samsung smart TVs and appliances to smart speakers, you can seamlessly integrate and operate them all through the app. Enhance your smart home experience further by utilizing voice assistants such as Alexa, Bixby, and Google Assistant, enabling you to command your devices effortlessly.
Key Features
- Monitor and control your home from anywhere in the world.
- Automate your home with routines triggered by time, weather, or device status for seamless operation.
- Share control by granting access to other users, ensuring everyone in your home can enjoy the benefits.
- Stay informed with automated notifications about your devices' statuses.
While SmartThings is optimized for Samsung smartphones, some features may be limited when used with other brands. Additionally, availability of certain features may vary by country. For even more convenience, you can install SmartThings on Wear OS-based watches, although this functionality is only available when the watch is connected to a mobile phone. Add a SmartThings tile to your watch for quick access to device control and routine execution, and utilize SmartThings complications for direct access from your watch face.
App Requirements
To ensure smooth operation, your mobile device should have at least 2GB of RAM. For Samsung Galaxy users, Smart View supports screen mirroring, enhancing your smart home experience.
App Permissions
SmartThings requires certain permissions to function optimally. While optional, these permissions enhance the app's functionality:
- Location: Facilitates locating your devices, creating location-based routines, and scanning for nearby devices via Wi-Fi.
- Nearby Devices: (Android 12 and above) Allows scanning for nearby devices using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE).
- Notifications: (Android 13 and above) Provides updates about SmartThings devices and features.
- Camera: Enables scanning QR codes to add members and devices easily.
- Microphone: Assists in adding certain devices using high-frequency sounds.
- Storage: (Android 9-11) For saving data and sharing content.
- Files and Media: (Android 12) For saving data and sharing content.
- 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) For making calls on smart speakers and showing information about shared content.
- Phone: (Android 10 and above) For making calls on smart speakers.
- Contacts: (Android 9) Retrieves contact phone numbers for text message notifications and identifies senders of shared content.
- 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.
By leveraging these features and permissions, SmartThings offers a comprehensive and user-friendly solution to manage your smart home, ensuring a connected and efficient living experience.
