Samsung has updated SmartThings, an app that lets users control the company's IoT devices. The new home automation feature is an obvious bid to cross-sell more smart home devices and appliances to existing customers.
In addition to automation features, users will get new integrations to support more devices through Samsung Health App, Intercom features and Matter 1.4 Smart Home Connectivity Standard.
Like Apple's shortcuts and IFTTT, the app's “routines” functionality is a basic no-code conditional programming interface that allows you to trigger tasks.
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Users can now set up routines that are repeated weekly, monthly or annually, and integration with SmartThings health app and the new 2025 Samsung TV model allows them to set up automation, such as automatically turning off lights at bedtime or starting TV on certain channels in the morning.
SmartThings can now connect to Samsung Health to send sleep reports for Galaxy devices that provide metrics such as temperature, humidity, CO2 levels, and lighting intensity. This sleep tracking is also linked to routine functions.
This app also allows you to drop audio messages on speakers connected to SmartThings at home. In particular, Samsung is very late in bringing this feature to the ecosystem. Amazon's Echo series devices have been able to do this since 2017, and Apple introduced similar features in 2020 for HomePods.
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Problem 1.4 Standard allows SmartThings to support devices such as water heaters, heat pumps, solar power devices, batteries, and other mounted on-off switches and mounted dimming load control devices.