@alex I remember that when I bought my SmartThings hub, I read a post about a super smart home, that had some super futuristic automated features.
"[When I arrive at home my garage door opens appropriately depending on what car I am driving. It then closes behind me automatically once I’ve parked and enter the house. The lights come on and everything else wakes up or sets itself according to my preferences automatically.
When I leave the doors (including garage) let me know if I forgot to close or lock them and then lock and close themselves as needed. If no one else is at home, the thermostat automatically turns itself down to save energy, the lights go off, and it enters a secure mode.
My toddler’s room isn’t insulated well and so gets cold at night when his door is shut. When that happens a virtual thermostat kicks on that measures the temperature in his individual room and controls a space heater automatically to keep it within 1 degree of the desired temperature.
When we wake up in the morning, the secure mode automatically turns off (it knows that motion started in our bedrooms and emanated outwards thus it’s not an intruder) and the lights come on in the kitchen. The coffee pot starts brewing so that it’s flowing by the time I get downstairs so that I can combat the feeling of the all-nighters we’ve been pulling in building the platform.
My cat gets fed automatically on a schedule.
When my wife and I are watching a movie in the basement or doing something else when the kids are supposed to be in bed, the lights flash wherever we are as a warning if the kids are up and around.
Lots and lots of smaller and larger examples, but its really only limited now by the new SmartApps and Things that will get added to the platform by the open community. It has already changed my life completely, but it’s unbelievably awesome to think about the possibilities that are going to come from the community working together!]
(So what’s everyone going to DO with their SmartThings? - #5 by eschuld)"
Three years later and after being acquired by the largest smartphone company in the world, is the vision for SmartThings to be the “most open platform in the world” for Home Automation or has Samsung influenced that vision towards using a smartphone, for example.
The reason I am asking, is because some of the recent promotional videos emphasize home interactions via a smartphone, rather than smart automation.