The SmartThings Blog

Last week, SmartThings was named Time Magazine's second-best gadget of 2014, while ReadWrite featured SmartThings in its annual gift guide–naming it the best smart home Hub on the market. (more…)

Whether you're shopping for yourself or a loved one, there's never been a better time to save on SmartThings: For three days only, we're offering our brand-new Holiday Kit for just $169–a $30 savings off the retail price. The Holiday Kit includes everything you need to start controlling and monitoring your home from anywhere in the world, specifically: • 1 SmartThings Hub (which TIME magazine just named the second-best gadget of 2014) • 1 SmartPower Outlet • 1 SmartSense Open/Closed sensor With the Holiday Kit, you can: • Control and automate lights, electronics, and small appliances from anywhere using your smartphone • Get immediate alerts if doors, windows, cabinets, or drawers open unexpectedly • Secure dangerous, off-limit, or valuable areas of your home • Save energy by triggering lights and appliances to turn off when you leave • Automatically turn on a light on or off when people come and go • Oh, and this. ...but be sure to hurry, because this deal will melt at 11:59 pm EST on Wednesday, December 3.  

We're flattered to be named TIME magazine's second-best gadget of 2014. Take a look at the full list here.

There are many sleek and sexy ways to automate your home, but Marc and his wife were drawn to SmartThings for the most practical of reasons: they wanted to create a safer home that notified them of immediate danger. It ended up saving them big time. (more…)

A SmartThings customer writes in to talk about how his family's cat went missing on a cold and wet night. (more…)

Among the highlights of this year's Samsung Developer's Conference were the virtual reality displays; a live demo showing how SmartThings’ Hello, Home feature can integrate with the forthcoming Galaxy Gear S watch through voice recognition; and a 1720-square-foot smart home built in the center of the Moscone Center. (more…)

As part of his keynote speech today at the Samsung Developer Conference, SmartThings CEO Alex Hawkinson did a live demo to introduce how SmartThings works to the 4,500 people in attendance. At the end, he showed off how SmartThings' Hello, Home feature can integrate with the forthcoming Galaxy Gear S watch through voice recognition. Check it out:

We’ve just released an updated version of the SmartThings Android app, and it’s now available for free download in the Google Play store. In addition to several bug fixes to enhance overall performance and stability, we're also releasing a few new features. (more…)

Today at the Samsung Developer Conference, SmartThings is unveiling its Samsung Smart Home. This four-room, 1720-square-foot house is the centerpiece of the conference's main floor and highlights a few of the many possibilities available in a SmartThings home today, as well as some exciting new integrations that will be available soon. (more…)

After delivering a speech at this year's Web Summit in Dublin, SmartThings CTO, Jeff Hagins, shows CNN how he's integrated more than 100 connected devices with his SmartThings Hub, and explains why he hates the term "Internet of Things."