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Samsung has update SmartThings , its app that let users control the company ’s IoT machine , with unexampled home automation capability in an patent command to cross - sell more of its smart home devices and gismo to existing customers .
Besides the automation features , user will get novel integration with the Samsung Health app , an intercom feature , and support for more twist through the Matter 1.4 chic home connectivity monetary standard .
The app ’s “ modus operandi ” feature — like Apple ’s Shortcuts and IFTTT , this is essentially a canonic , no - code conditional scheduling port that can trigger tasks — has been updated to enable a well amount of home mechanisation .
user can now place routines to be repeat every week , every calendar month , or every year , and SmartThings ’ integration with the Health app and new 2025 Samsung TV model now enables you to set up mechanization , like having the twinkle mechanically sprain off when you go to bed , or have the TV set off on a specific channel in the morning .
SmartThings can now also connect to Samsung Health to post eternal sleep report on Galaxy devices that bring home the bacon metric such as temperature , humidity , CO2levels , and lighting strength . This eternal sleep track also ties in with the routines sport .
The app can also now drop part subject matter to SmartThings - connected speakers at home . Notably , Samsung is very late in bringing this feature to its ecosystem , as Amazon’sEcho serial of deviceshave been able-bodied to do this since 2017 , and Apple infix a similar feature forHomePods in 2020 .
With the Matter 1.4 standard , SmartThings now also supports devices like water heaters , heat ticker , solar major power devices , and batteries , as well as mounted on - off switching and climb dimmable burden ascendancy devices .
