I re-read what I wrote, and corrected accordingly. The the new ST Cloud is their IOT platform, which has various open and closed APIs for different devices to talk to each other. Today, the ST hub is a control node that bridges the gap between their various vendors. If their platform could do this instead of the hub, it could be powerful, as long as the open aspect remains in effect.
Throw Knox (Securing API calls), and AI/ML to learn behaviors amongst devices, then ST can become even more valuable than what we have today.
This is all great for Samsung, but doesnât provide a clear picture for the partner community, which is the reason I sought ST in the first place.
Back before the arrival of the Amazon echo, a smart watch was a very convenient way to do immediate home automation requests, whether by voice or as a widget. I used to do this a lot.
Now those of us that use voice assistants in the home, whether it is echo or google home, probably no longer use the smart watch in that way as much. I do still use mine when Iâm outside the home or in the yard.
As with everything, different people use these tools in different ways. Choice is good. I donât think most people would run out and buy a smart watch in order to be able to change to movie mode without using their phone.
But there are people who like smart watches and use them for a lot of different purposes and certainly wonder why a home automation system from Samsung wasnât integrated with a smart watch from Samsung. So I think this makes sense even if not that many people use it.
Hogar said the Milo is the first-ever smart speaker with Z-Wave Plus, but Toshiba recently released its own smart speaker/hub combo, the Symbio, with that feature (the Symbio also includes a camera). Nevertheless, the products highlight a bit of a trend at CES this year to put home hub features in smart speakers, since theyâre often sitting in a central spot in your house.
This may also be handy to kick off a good night routine via IFTTT
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Iâve been expecting this functionality to hit various âdisplayâ devices for a long time. Itâs too soon to know whether these can be embedded in ActionTiles Panels; but the prospect is exciting;
The most popular brand of tablets for ActionTiles is Amazon Fireâs, and they can be programmed to automatically display cards for linked Echos and Dots; and the HD10 has always-listening Alexa built in; so maybe weâre halfway there already.
Hereâs the piece that immediately stuck out to me in that article:
As part of the overhaul, devs and makers and service providers will have the ability to create custom panels to expand the capabilities of the app. SmartThings already has custom SmartApps and Device Handlers for devices that arenât officially supported, but the new panels are a bigger deal than that. Samsung will make 300 new panels available, but anyone can create one too.
What exactly those panels will be capable of displaying, thatâs the question.
As all of us hold onto our phones and TVs for a longer period of time, Samsung has been making a push beyond being just a hardware provider. Itâs also trying to find ways to get us to stick with its devices and keep buying more and more. In short, Samsung wants to build what Apple, Google and Amazon already have: An ecosystem.
I am sure this is a serious comment, but it makes me laugh because there seems to be a very simple fix.
They could acquire a company to help, hire a firm, or hire a team, located in Silicon Valley HQ, to develop this.
It would be the logical path for them, since they own the screens, the platform, and Bixey. In essence, they are already doing this on the TVs and Smart Refrigerators, so porting this over to a small Tinsen based box would seem easy.
They should consider developing this as an app, that goes on any manufacturerâs device, like Amazon Show, Lenovaâs new Smart Display, and so on.
If not, then I doubt people in USA and EMEA would consume another Smart Assistant, with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Baidu, and so on.
Agreed and makes sense. After reading more, I think their path is the correct one, and is very needed.
As mentioned in my earlier posts, I hope they continue to focus on supporting their partners, and working with them to integrate them into their IOT platform (Smartthings Cloud).
It would be awesome if Smartthings could develop this into their ST app on Android Wear, Tinzen, and Garmin OS. The app is already there, and those smart watches already track your sleep
Also, Nokia and Samsung ST probably will not work together, since Samsung has their own competing SLEEPsense sleep monitoring product that does the same and already integrates into ST.
The Samsung sleepsense was announced back in 2015, but never went into wide release. Occasionally youâll see a third-party seller whoâs got one of the beta versions and has it for sale, but otherwise you canât find them.
Beyond that, smartthings has always been happy to work with end Device manufacturers with competing products, such as for pocket sockets and sensors. So I donât think that would be an issue.
