The SmartThings Blog

Providing security, convenience, and energy savings, the SmartSense Motion sensor is a triple-threat and a key part of any smart home. By placing these on shelves or mounting them to walls, SmartSense Motion sensors will let you know when movement is detected in a certain area of your home and can trigger different actions in response to that movement. (more…)

We're very excited to announce the newest additions to SmartThings Labs: the Netatmo Indoor and Outdoor Weather Stations. This latest SmartThings Labs integration represents the power of the open SmartThings Platform, and was created by a developer from the SmartThings community: Brian Steere. By combining the powers of SmartThings with Netatmo, your safer, smarter home can also be a healthier home. (more…)

Friends, Today is a big day for SmartThings. I’m excited to announce that SmartThings has been acquired by Samsung and will operate as an independent company within Samsung’s Open Innovation Center group. It has always been our goal to create a totally open smart home platform that brings together third-party developers, device makers, and consumers. We’re thrilled that Samsung fully supports this vision. We will continue to run SmartThings the way we always have: by embracing our community of customers, developers, and device makers and championing the creation of the leading open platform for the smart home. Our growing team will remain fully intact and will relocate to a new headquarters in Palo Alto, CA. In short: SmartThings will remain SmartThings. (more…)

Whether you're looking to create a smart home or enhance your existing smart home, it's important to understand the basics of wireless range and network repeaters. This guide, written by the SmartThings engineering team, is full of useful tips to help ensure that your smart home network is as reliable and powerful as possible. (more…)

As mentioned, we're kicking off a series of workshops to help people learn how to create new and valuable ways to use SmartThings. We call these custom-built solutions "SmartApps," and we'd love to teach you how easy they are to create. (more…)

Welcome to our latest installment of “Hello, Smart Home,” a video series where we head inside customers’ houses and apartments to see how they’re using SmartThings to secure their homes, gain peace of mind, and complement their preferences and patterns. Today, we meet Craig, a tech manager who recently married his college sweetheart and moved with her into their first house. (more…)

In a story republished from his blog, Daniel Root describes how he's using SmartThings to bring intelligence into every corner of his home, creating a smart home custom to his lifestyle. (more…)

A customer describes how he's using SmartThings to turn his ordinary sump pump into a smart sump pump. (more…)

One app. One Hub. Limitless possibilities. Watch this short video to get just a hint of what SmartThings can do for you. And to learn more about how your home can automatically adjust to fit your needs and preferences, visit SmartThings.com. (more…)

SmartThings alerts a customer that a leak has started forming in his laundry room, allowing him time to rush home to prevent a headache from causing a disaster. (more…)