The SmartThings Blog

We’re very excited to announce three new additions to SmartThings Labs: TCP Lighting, Quirky Pivot Power Genius, and ecobee. Two of these new integrations were created by a prolific developer in SmartThings’ growing community, Todd Wackford. As such, these latest additions to SmartThings Labs represent the power and flexibility of our open platform, and showcase how all customers benefit when builders and makers come together to create new ways to use SmartThings. (more…)

Brit + Co. just published a great Q&A with SmartThings' resident hackineer, Andrew Urman. Check it out to hear about his favorite hacks, advice for aspiring makers, and more!

SmartThings CEO Alex Hawkinson joined Senator Richard Blumenthal, FTC Commissioner Maureen K. Ohlhausen, and a host of other entrepreneurs at the Washington Post's “All Things Connected” forum this morning in Washington, DC. (more…)

We’ve recently unveiled two new SmartPower Outlet multi-packs and a new Kwikset lock in the SmartThings Shop. Allow us to introduce them to you... (more…)

We’ve just released the new iOS version 1.5.4 to the app store. Here’s a rundown of what’s new and improved: (more…)

Hello! Hola! Ciao! Bonjour! Hallo! We're pleased to announce that we will begin shipping SmartThings to our European backers this week. If you're a European-based Kickstarter backer, we have just sent you an e-mail asking you to either select your SmartThings devices (if you haven't done so already), or to confirm your mailing address (if you've already selected your SmartThings devices). We ask that you please complete and submit this e-mail so we can send you your order. (more…)

We've just given our Explore pages a new coat of paint. The recent facelift is designed to better highlight how SmartThings can offer customers home security, peace of mind, and limitless possibilities in every room of their homes. Let us know what you think, and stay tuned for an exciting announcement later today.

A father of two young kids races home from the hospital when SmartThings alerts him that his furnace is causing their upstairs loft to get dangerously hot. (more…)

Welcome to "Hello, Smart Home," a brand-new video series where we head inside customers' cribs to see how they're using SmartThings to secure their homes, gain peace of mind, and fit their lifestyle. In our first installment, we meet Rahul, who shares his SmartThings account with his wife in their two-story rental apartment. Come on in! (more…)

In December 2012, co-founders Jeff Hagins, Scott Vlaminck, and Jesse O'Neill-Oine presented SmartThings' vision for a fully connected home at the Le Web international conference in Paris. While the look of the SmartThings app and platform have undergone a series of significant changes and improvements in the past 15 months, the vision of what they describe remains at the core of our company's DNA: If we can create a digital representation of the physical things around us and get these connected things to send useful information to us and to each other, then we will be able to know what is happening anywhere else in the world and take action on it–like controlling lights in Minneapolis from France. At SmartThings, we call this digital manifestation and representation of all things the "Physical Graph™," and are convinced it's going to change the world.