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I’m using SmartThings Favorites page, SmartThings widget, SmartThings Devices and Media add-on, Alexa Favorites, SharpTools wigets, Google Home app since I can organize my device in rooms differently than I do in SmartThings, Tasker, and Nova Launcher. And because I’m using Nova Launcher, I have other apps displaying things like weather forecast widgets. And an app displaying a website in a widget for other data like air quality.

An over-the-air update coming later this month will turn Samsung’s standalone SmartThings hubs into controllers for the new smart home standard Matter. The v2 hub will control Matter devices over Wi-Fi and ethernet, while the current hub and SmartThings dongle will also act as Thread border routers. Samsung is the first company to publicly announce Matter certification.

Jaeyeon Jung, Samsung Electronics corporate vice president and head of SmartThings’ mobile experience business, told The Verge in an interview that the company received its Matter certification early on Wednesday, October 12th, a week after Matter launched. Michelle Mindala-Freeman of the Connectivity Standards Alliance, which oversees Matter, confirmed that it started issuing certifications this week and said Samsung was among the very first to secure one. Samsung said the certification is for the hubs, with the timeline for the dongle certification still being determined.

During the Samsung Developer Conference Keynote this week, Mark Benson, head of SmartThings, announced Matter support would be rolled out to its platform this month. Jung confirmed to The Vergefollowing the keynote that Samsung plans to push over-the-air updates to all existing v2 and v3 SmartThings hubs and the SmartThings app on Android. The SmartThings dongle and the software-based SmartThings hubs built into newer Samsung smart TVs, monitors, and Family Hub fridges will be upgraded to support Matter at a later date, says Jung.

While the upgraded hubs will still support Zigbee and Z-Wave, they won’t be Matter bridges, at least not anytime soon. “We don’t have a plan to support that function yet,” says Jung. “SmartThings users will be able to continue to use those devices connected to a SmartThings hub, but existing Zigbee and Z-Wave devices won’t be exposed to Matter.”

The good news is that SmartThings v3 hubs (now made by Aeotec) and the $35 dongle for Samsung appliances with SmartThings software hubs will become Thread border routers. “We worked with Silicon Labs to use software to simultaneously run Zigbee and Thread using the same hardware chipset,” says Jung. “Once we roll out the software, SmartThings v3 hubs will support both Zigbee and Matter over Thread devices, along with the dongle, too.”

This means if you have a compatible Samsung smart TV or smart fridge and you pick up the $35 dongle, you’ll have a SmartThings Matter controller with a Thread border router ready to go when the update arrives. Of course, there are no Matter devices available to control yet. But with the launch of the standard last week, we should see products start to roll out this year.

Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Samsung SmartThings, and Apple Home are some of the big smart home platforms signed on to support Matter. Apple and Samsung have already updated their compatible hubs to be Matter controllers, and we expect to see updates arriving on the other platforms shortly.

In addition to not exposing Zigbee or Z-Wave devices connected to the SmartThings hubs to Matter, Jung says Samsung has no plans to add its smart TVs or appliances to Matter as devices, meaning they will only be controllable through the SmartThings app and not other Matter controllers. TVs are in the first Matter spec, but appliances are not. (Samsung is a member of the Home Connectivity Alliance — an organization of major appliance manufacturers aiming to do for appliances what Matter is doing for the smart home, so someday you could control an LG washing machine in the SmartThings app and vice versa. The Vergesawa demo of this, but there’s no launch timing yet).

Jung says Samsung’s smart appliance ecosystem is one of the reasons the company thinks consumers will choose to use SmartThings over another platform now that Matter is making compatibility of devices less of an issue in the smart home. (SmartThings arguably built its brand on being the most open platform of the major players).

She also pointed to the SmartThings Home Life services, a new feature in the SmartThings app that groups smart home functions into energy management, cooking, pet care, and air quality to provide actionable advice and control. Currently, these services only work with Samsung devices (except for energy management, which can monitor the energy use of all devices connected to SmartThings). But Jung says, with Matter, Samsung plans to support more devices in these services. “We seek to become an open platform so people can benefit from using SmartThings with all the smart devices they have in their home,” she says.

However, by not enabling the bridge function in its hubs, Samsung’s claim of pursuing platform openness with SmartThings rings just a little hollow. It’s the only platform of the big four that supports both Zigbee and Z-Wave devices, and many devices in the first Matter categories — lights, locks, sensors — use Zigbee and Z-Wave protocols. This meant Samsung had a unique opportunity it didn’t take. It could have been the first platform to bring Zigbee and Z-Wave devices into Matter, allowing all Matter-enabled platforms to control any compatible devices connected to its hub. Instead, SmartThings hubs and dongle will be the first way to get Zigbee, Z-Wave, and Matter all in the same ecosystem — but it will have to be SmartThings’ ecosystem.

UPDATE, Friday, October 14, 4:05 PM: Samsung reached out to clarify that the SmartThings dongle is not yet Matter certified. We have updated some language in the article to reflect this.

Samsung introduced its first standalone SmartThings smart home controller at its CES 2022 keynote this week. The Samsung Home Hub is designed to be a central place for a household to control and monitor their smart home without having to buy a $4,000 smart fridge.

Samsung says at launch, the Home Hub will “be able to connect to every product within the SmartThings ecosystem,” with integrations for other devices, such as lights and door locks coming soon. There was no specific mention of this being a SmartThings software hub itself (Samsung has said it is integrating SmartThings hub software into many of its smart appliances), but it’s hard to imagine it won’t be. There’s no pricing available or a US release date, but it is scheduled to launch in Korea in March and globally after that.

There have been a few attempts at solving this problem — the touchscreen Brilliant Control Panel that replaces your existing light switches is an innovative solution that takes advantage of a house’s existing wiring. But installing that system in every room will set you back a pretty penny, and the screen is much smaller than a tablet, making it less intuitive for all users.

I’ve used the Samsung Family Hub smart fridge, and the Home Hub interface looks similar. Both largely resemble a blown-up version of Samsung’s SmartThings smartphone app. There’s a Favorites home screen with your favorite devices on it, a Devices tab for all your gadgets, and a Life tab where you’ll find Samsung’s connected services — such as Cooking, Clothing Care, Energy, Pet, Air and Home Care Wizard. That last one monitors your Samsung smart appliances and tells you when you need a new water filter for your fridge, as well as offers troubleshooting tips when needed.

Speaking of Samsung’s connected services, the SmartThings Energy service, which monitors the power usage of all compatible connected devices and recommends ways for you to save energy based on usage patterns, is being expanded to include more products and services. Samsung also announced partnerships earlier this year that enable real-time monitoring of whole-home energy consumption in the SmartThings App. This type of integration should allow homeowners to set up automations based on energy costs or demand response events.

Samsung is also part of Matter, a new smart home standard with similar goals. How this initiative will fit in with Matter is unclear at this stage. Matter is a local protocol, with devices communicating primarily over a local network while still allowing IP access to connect to the internet. This new Alliance appears to be focused on expanding connectivity between cloud-based services. This is something Samsung has been pursuing more aggressively since it started to transition its SmartThings platform from a hardware-based smart home hub to a software-based service.

I get my V2 hub and start the setup through the app. The first time I input my Welcome Code it doesn"t accept it so I get a little worried, but on the second try it works. I have already replaced one of my light switches with a GE ZWave switch so I go to add the device to my hub. The switch is about 10 feet away from the hub. The hub is searching for ZWave devices, but cannot see anything even as I push the button on my GE switch which supposedly puts it in pairing mode. I trying moving the hub closer and still no luck. I reset the hub a couple of times and start the pairing process again, but still no luck. I do a little research on the forums, but don"t really get any helpful info. I go try to pair one more time and suddenly it works. I don"t think I did anything differently than before, but I was happy to finally get it added. Once it was added I felt the setup for the device was pretty straight forward. I then install a second GE switch and am able to get it paired with my hub on the first try. I then install a GE in-wall electrical outlet, but I cannot get it to pair. I move the hub within 10 feet of the outlet, do multiple resets on the hub and it still cannot see the outlet. After about 20 mins I do a little research on the Internet and learn you can do an "exclude" function on the outlet which I think is about like a reset. I do this and am instantly able to pair the outlet with my hub. I install another light switch and it works right away. I then am able to pair a garage door opener on the first try. Finally, I install one last GE light switch identical to the others I have installed. I am able to pair this one immediately, however during the configuration process I keep getting an message saying "an unexpected error has occurred" and am not able to finish the configuration on the switch. I am able to control the switch, but it will not allow me to rename it or add it to a room group. I do a little research in the SmartThings forums and learn there is a website you can go to and configure your hub and associated devices (ide.smartthings.com). I go to the website and am able to rename the device and add it to a room group. Initially, though, the light switch does show the correct name in the app, but it still says it is "Not Configured". Since the device is fully functional I don"t worry about it too much, but I guess my OCD just doesn"t like having that "not configured" device showing up in my Marketplace. A few hours later, though, I decided to try and run the configuration again and it works. So I"m not sure what the problem was, but it did work itself out.

The only real problem I have is when the smoke detector goes off SmartThings hub should send me a text message on my phone and turn on all the lights in my house. The hub does send a text message, but it does not turn on the lights. Other than that, though, I have been able to set up all the other functions I want. I have a couple of motion detectors coming later this week and a garage door opener coming next week so we will see how those integrate.

**Update 9/29/2015** - I just added a couple of motion sensors to my hub. They were easy to connect and work as advertised so now I have a basic security system. If motion is detected while the system is armed I get a text message/push notification on my phone and all of the lights in my house turn on. The hub itself has been working great for me. I will still say the SmartThings app needs a little work to make it a better layout and a little more user friendly, but overall I"m still pleased.

**Update 10/11/2015** - I have added a couple of open/close sensors for my front and rear doors and added my LiftMaster garage door opener. Overall, I am still happy with SmartThings, but I am removing one star and going down to 4 stars. My main issue right now is the SmartThings support. I still have not been able to resolve the issue I mentioned above with the smoke detector. Support takes about 3 or 4 days to reply. I understand they may be backed up on support tickets with the initial launch, but then again doesn"t that speak something about the state of the product they launched? My initial support e-mail got a reply within a day, but since then it"s been about 3 or 4 days between each e-mail. The support rep keeps asking me questions mostly in quickly written e-mails only a few sentences long. They have only made a couple of quick suggestions, none of which worked and one I had already tried anyway. Basically, at this point support is worthless for me. It is only because everything else I have set up works as I want it to that I"m still satisfied overall with my hub. I truly hope they do not end up alienating a lot of customers due to the excessively long support times. They should have hired more people to cover the initial surge of support tickets that often come with product launches. They also need to get to redesigning the app to make it more user friendly and adding useful features like grouping items together in other categories besides Rooms.

While there have been a few ups and downs with this system overall I would say there are a lot more ups. I am still happy with this and I have seen improvements in reliability and functionality since I first bought this as the SmartThings team continues to make improvements. The app was also redesigned so it is better than before, though it might still need a little polishing to make it a little more user friendly. As I have added several devices since my first review they have all pretty much worked flawlessly. I have added a couple of Hue color bulbs and they work great, though there is a lack of color control for routines. You can change colors manually or for the Alarm function (i.e. they can turn red if the security system goes off), but I cannot find any way to change them through a normal routine. Also, SmartThings will integrate with the Echo so if you spend $50 on and Echo Dot you can have some pretty cool voice control of your home! It"s not perfect as it is mostly just basic functionality (I can turn my hue bulbs on/off, but cannot change the color through voice), but it is still pretty useful and fun.

Since I originally published this article, I’ve switched from using SmartThings to using HomeAssistant & stopped using ActionTiles. While I’m leaving this post up, I don’t have much experience troubleshooting this setup, so while I’d like to help, you’re probably best to ask someone else questions about this setup.

I recently replaced my traditional home security system with a more modern setup. The old system was your typical box with multiple wired sensors hooked up to doors, windows, motion detectors & smoke/carbon monoxide detectors. The new setup takes all these existing sensors and exposes them as things in SmartThings where you can use the SmartThings

To interact with the old security system, you typically use bulky keypads with the back-lit LCD screen. These won’t work for the new setup… I wanted something much more modern. The solution: smart touchscreens!

This panel is actually much bigger… I can stroll down to control our smart thermostats, view the cameras we have on our house and a lot more. Some of the tiles are interactive while others aren’t. For instance, the sensors from the old security system aren’t interactive such as doors, windows & motion detectors.

ActionTiles rocks as I can configure panels as much as I like in a browser experience from my desk and wherever they are being consumed, they automatically get updated.

We like it so much, we’re considering getting the larger 10" Kindle Fire for the kitchen. That one’s ActionTiles panel will use a larger tile theme to see it from across the room. It’s also great for displaying recipes via the Plan to Eat app we use for meal planning.

The existing security system had a wire that ran to the main security system. This wire provided 12V power & data to the keypad. Because the Kindle tablets are using my existing wireless network to show the ActionTiles panel, I only needed to supply power, but just 5V of power.

One thing I want to call out though was that I added a SmartThings plug that cycles power on/off every few hours to the tablets. Driving constant power for an extended period of time to a tablet isn’t safe as the batteries aren’t designed for that. This way, the tablets charge for 3 hours, then run off battery discharging themselves for 3 hours which is more what they were designed to do.

Samsung SmartThings is one of the oldest smart home platforms still actively supported, as it was originally founded in 2012 before being acquired by Samsung in 2014. SmartThings isn"t just the management/setup tool for Samsung"s own connected products — it can connect to thousands of other platforms, just like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. Managing everything you"ve connected to SmartThings is currently only possible through the Android and iOS mobile apps, but now Samsung is finally building a way to access SmartThings devices through a web browser.

Samsung started development on a web panel for SmartThings in May 2019, though the closed alpha was shut down in October of that same year while Samsung prepared "for a much larger test leading to a full release." According to later forum posts from a SmartThings developer, the web app was still in development, but the project was "running into shifting requirements from legal and security teams." The panel appears to have gone live for anyone with a Samsung account earlier this week, accessible from my.smartthings.com, though the developer noted that it"s still not finished and no official support is available.

Once you log in to the SmartThings web dashboard with your Samsung account, you"re greeted with the main screen that lists your favorite devices — these don"t sync with the mobile app yet, but they will at some point. There"s also a tab that displays all your rooms and the devices in each one, as well as an "Automations" page that shows your smart home scenes and active third-party connections.

It would be great to see Samsung continue to develop the SmartThings web panel to have as much functionality as the mobile apps. The panel works well on both desktop and mobile, and unlike many other modern web apps, it isn"t slow to open. Google and Amazon don"t have a similar web panel for their smart home ecosystems (except the basic Alexa web app for connecting/disconnecting third-party services), so Samsung is alone in expanding access to the web.

Samsung previously offered a Windows application for managing SmartThings, but it was deprecated in 2019. The company is now working on an updated desktop application, primarily designed for its new Galaxy Book Pro laptops.

Suddenly, SmartThings looks like the most comprehensive smart home platform, at least at a glance. Both Google and Amazon are rapidly expanding the number of first-party devices that work with their Alexa and Google Assistant services, but neither has their own TV or refrigerator yet, outside of products from other manufacturers. Samsung SmartThings has both of those things, as well as

It"s been awhile since we took a close look at SmartThings, so I decided to spend some time with it -- on my phone, and in the Samsung fridge and television installed in the CNET Smart Home. What is it like to have a home wholly operated by SmartThings (and Samsung) in 2019, you ask? Spoiler alert: not great. Read on to find out why.

SmartThings pressed on. There"s still a SmartThings hub (now third-gen) and an updated app. And SmartThings still has an open platform with tons of compatible third-party partners

It was almost as if no time had passed, and I don"t mean that in a good way. SmartThings gave me a lot of trouble in 2015 when I tested the second-generation hub, along with tons of SmartThings sensors and third-party devices.

But knowing how much SmartThings has grown over the years, it felt only fair to see if it had also matured into the platform I"ve always wanted it to be. Unfortunately, SmartThings was as temperamental as ever, just on a larger scale.

There are also a variety of devices installed at the CNET Smart Home that are compatible with the SmartThings platform and already paired to it on the app.

Let"s move on to the specifics of testing out SmartThings on the app, the fridge and on the TV.The updated app is my preferred way to interact with SmartThings -- although it"s still glitchy and tough to navigate.Tyler Lizenby/CNET

All that said, the app -- even with the latest app version -- crashed inexplicably at least four to six times during my testing. It still takes a lot of clicks and different screens to reach the settings you want and it"s easier to view the Arlo Pro 2 live feed in the Arlo app than on the SmartThings app.

The SmartThings connection on the Family Hub fridge performed significantly worse than the app. The fridge itself is a solid product with tons of apps and clever features.

SmartThings was another story. I connected the exact same SmartThings account on my app to the fridge. Instead of getting a list of all of the connected devices like the Play Light Bar and the Pro 2 camera, I got... crickets. It didn"t list a single device.

The fridge"s giant built-in LCD screen instead said, "After you connect devices in the SmartThings app on your phone, you"ll be able to monitor and control them on your Family Hub." Hrm.Where are all of my SmartThings devices? Who knows.Tyler Lizenby/CNET

The Q6 Series TV fortunately worked better than the fridge. Login via the SmartThings app on the TVs home screen and use the Samsung TV remote to scroll through -- and control -- your SmartThings devices. I was able to turn my Philips Hue light bar on and view my Arlo Pro 2 camera.Viewing the Arlo Pro 2 camera connected through SmartThings on the TV screen.Tyler Lizenby/CNET

Annoyingly, my SmartThings devices didn"t always show up when I opened the TV app. I"d log out and back in and they"d usually appear, but once or twice I had to log out twice before they loaded.

While SmartThings has clearly grown up, I still wouldn"t recommend it as a whole-home setup today. I experienced similar glitches in 2015 as I did testing the updated system in 2019. The app crashes, for instance, shouldn"t still be happening.

There"s also a question of value. If you want SmartThings in your home today in a major way, you"ll have to dish out thousands of dollars for a Samsung fridge and TV -- and that doesn"t include the other investments in third-party devices like lights and cameras.

Relatedly, even if the fridge integration had worked better, I wouldn"t ever think to head over to the fridge to turn on a light or adjust my SmartThings settings.

The idea of the fridge as the "hub of the home" makes sense in many ways -- I particularly enjoyed the TV mirroring feature, but I don"t want (or need) my fridge to be an access point with all of my smart home devices. I do like the idea of being able to view a security camera feed on the fridge, but, again, that specific SmartThings integration didn"t work for me.

That feeling isn"t specific to Samsung, SmartThings or Bixby. I wouldn"t want an Alexa-, Google Assistant- or Siri-platform-enabled LCD fridge display either. Voice sans screens is the simplest way for a whole family to interact with smart home devices -- no phone, no fridge, no TV needed.

It will be interesting to see if and how the Galaxy Home changes things for Samsung and SmartThings. Samsung is way behind the voice assistant curve, which seriously hurts its appeal today.  But once the smart speaker hits stores, I have to ask -- what"s the point of the SmartThings hub? Does the Galaxy Home even need a SmartThings hub?

All of this speaks to the diminished role of hubs in homes -- I feel similarly about Wink. Samsung"s clunky execution of SmartThings hasn"t helped things either.

This certainly sounds like it could make Bixby better, but that won"t mean much if I can"t manage to connect my SmartThings devices to the fridge. We"ll see.

SmartThings is compatible with 100s of smart home brands. So, you can control all of your smart home gadgets in one place, including your Samsung Smart TV and smart home appliances.

With SmartThings, you can connect, monitor and control multiple smart home devices quicker and easier. Connect your Samsung smart TVs, smart appliances, smart speakers and brands like Ring, Nest and Philips Hue - all from one app.

- Track, monitor and save money on energy with SmartThings Energy. See how much your home and compatible Samsung devices cost to run, and try various energy saving features, such as AI saving mode, or schedule devices to run during off peak hours.

So, you’ve made the plunge and set up your smart home with SmartThings. Wise choice. While the smart speakers of this world get most of the ink in the smart home space, SmartThings is the go-to for a truly reliable, expandable, robust and widely compatible system.

SmartThings uses the smart home protocols Zigbee, Z-Wave and Wi-Fi, the latter through cloud-to-cloud integration or IFTTT workarounds so there are a ton of SmartThings compatible devices (AKA "Works with SmartThings"), whether you"re using one of the original (now discontinued) SmartThings Hubs or the new Aeotec Smart Home Hub.

Sound familiar? Well, yes, in case you were wondering, Samsung is set to be a major player with Matter, as well, highlighting to The Ambient that SmartThings" history of working across different protocols will stand it in good stead as the protocol develops in 2023.

On top of all this, we’re beginning to see some useful integrations with smart appliances that no other smart home platform has really matched yet, as SmartThings is owned by Samsung.

Don’t worry, though, adopting SmartThings doesn’t mean doing away with a smart assistant. It plays well with an Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant smart home and actually gives those systems a much-needed Z-Wave and Zigbee boost. Plus, if you’re all-in on Samsung, there’s Bixby support, too.

There are surprisingly few solid, third-party camera integrations for SmartThings, but even if there were more, we’d still pick Netgear’s Arlo as the best.

Arlo has a wide range of cameras – battery-powered, weatherproof, wired, indoor, and outdoor. It"s a top-notch kit with resolutions of up to 4K and night vision, plus there"s the option of local backup. SmartThings works with all of the latest cameras, even if the list of support doesn’t mention the Ultra 2.

SmartThings will work with Wi-Fi cameras and those connected to a base station. Handily, for cameras connected to a base station, you can have SmartThings turn them on and off individually, scheduling when you want them to work.

Although it doesn’t mention support for all of the latest cameras and doorbells, the Ring add-on for SmartThings supports all video devices. Only the Ring Alarm is not supported.

Or you can have a device turn on when someone presses your Ring doorbell. You can stream video footage through SmartThings, too, giving you a single app to view everything with.

For a long time, the Nest Thermostat didn’t work with SmartThings. Then Google went and made things even worse and killed off the Works with Nest program, so that other third-party systems didn’t work, either.

For a long time, if you wanted a smart door lock, Z-Wave and Zigbee were your only options, but, with the advent of Wi-Fi-powered door locks, there’s a lot more choice. If you have a SmartThings home, you want a Z-powered lock. Less battery drain, more reliability, and much more interoperability with the rest of your smart home.

If you want a lock with some more intelligence – including auto-unlocking as you approach the door, the August Smart Lock Pro is a great option. Plus, you can still check your front door status, initiate a lock or unlock and sync your August smart lock with other devices through SmartThings. One complaint about August is it"s a bulky device, but the smaller WiFi Smart Lock solves this.

For UK users, the Yale Conexis L1 connects via Z-Wave (provided you buy the adaptor) while the newer Yale Linus connects via its own bridge and cloud integration with SmartThings.

We covered how to connect your Google and Amazon smart speakers to SmartThings in our guide to setting up your SmartThings home, but, if you want to use your high-end speakers, your best options are Sonos or Bose’s SoundTouch range.

Any Zigbee or Z-Wave bulb will work with SmartThings. Some of our faves include our best smart lighting system pick, Philips Hue, and the inexpensive Sengled Element Plus line, which starts at cracking $12.99. Other options include Sylvania Smart +, Lifx, TP-Link, Ikea’s Tradfri line, and pretty much any other Zigbee or Z-Wave bulb.

Zigbee-based, Innr bulbs connect directly to the SmartThings hub and both the bulbs and the smart plug worked seamlessly in our testing, plus the plug (which costs just $39.99 / £34.99 for a 2-pack) also acts as a Zigbee repeater.

Rather than relying on automation or voice control, sometimes it’s better just to have buttons and switches to control SmartThings, and the Flic Button 2 is one of the best. Each tiny button can be placed where you want it, connecting via Bluetooth to the Flic Hub.

Thanks to a recent(ish) update, Flic buttons can now be set to control SmartThings Automations. So, tap your button, and you can have your bedtime routine start automatically.

Our favorite Zigbee plug is the Innr (see Smart Lighting), but Ikea’s Tradfri plug is another excellent very inexpensive Zigbee option ($9.99 / £9.99) and you don’t need the Tradfri Gateway to connect to SmartThings.

Smart sensors make your smart home sing. Small, battery-powered devices that can detect triggers such as motion, contact (something opening or closing), temperature, vibration and light levels – they’re excellent for linking devices together (open this door and that light turns on) and for setting up a DIY security system using SmartThings (if any contact or motion sensor is triggered activate that siren).

There are a lot of Z-Wave sensors on the market, and the beauty of SmartThings is that you can mix and match brands to fit your needs and your budget. But our top pick are those made by Aeotec.

Okay, Samsung isn’t really a third party when it comes to SmartThings, but these aren’t SmartThings branded devices, so we’ve decided to cover them here.

SmartThings is one of the few smart home ecosystems to integrate with smart appliances. While Alexa has a microwave and a couple of ovens, and Google works with GE’s smart range hood, SmartThings works with an entire product line of appliances, assuming they have a Samsung label on them.

In general, this means it will connect to your SmartThings app to notify you of its status, and problems or provide updates through the SmartThings app, or on any connected screen with a SmartThings interface – such as a SmartThings TV or Samsung’s Family Hub Fridge.

The HomeCare Wizard, a feature on all connected Samsung appliances monitors for problems with your machine and make’s recommendations through the SmartThings app for taking good care of your pricey appliance. You can also control it via voice with Bixby using your Samsung phone.

The Cube air purifier is a new device from Samsung that works through the SmartThings app. Control it remotely and monitor your air quality using SmartThings, plus the Cube is also voice-enabled for voice assistants and comes with Filter Life notification, alerting you to when it’s time to change your filter.

The fridge is designed to manage everything from your groceries and your cooking to your family and your smart home – thanks to the SmartThings app being built into the fridge’s impressive 21.5-inch screen. From here you can control all your devices, as well as get notifications and view the live feed from your Ring doorbell. You can also use the fridge’s built-in Bixby voice assistant to control your devices with voice – such as asking your fridge to turn on your living room lights on, if you’re into that kind of thing.

A number of Samsung’s smart TVs now have a SmartThings dashboard built in, accessed through an app on the TV. This lets you use the SmartThings app to control and automate your TV, view the channel guide, configure ambient mode settings, and mirror your phone’s screen, as well as include it in Routines, such as setting the TV to turn on automatically when you get home from work and turn it off at night.

You can also use Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant to control the TV if the smart assistant is connected to your SmartThings system, and say things like: “Alexa, turn on Living Room TV,” or “Hey Google, Pause TV.” To see which Samsung Smart TVs are compatible check out this page.

Smart devices are handy and convenient, but they’re only half of the smart home puzzle. The other half is connecting and controlling them, and all you need is a good smart hub to get your smart home up and running. Today, you can get the Samsung SmartThings third-generation hub on Amazon for an all-time low price of $55.33Remove non-product link with an on-page coupon, down from a list price of $70.

This hub works with a huge list of smart devices, so you’ll be able to connect both existing and new devices with one sleek hub. Even better, it connects wirelessly, so you won’t need an ethernet cable to get it up and running. In our 4-star review, we wrote, “The SmartThings Hub remains the most DIY-friendly path to a fully featured smart home.” And once you’ve set it up, you’ll be able to use either the connected app or Alexa to control all your smart devices.