Q1 2025 Updates: The Latest SmartThings Developments & More!

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The Innovation Report: Your Quarterly SmartThings Update Newsletter

Thank you for being a valued part of the SmartThings ecosystem! We’re here to help you create incredible experiences every step of the way.

We’re excited to share some of the latest and greatest updates to the SmartThings platform with you!

Keep reading for the newest features in the SmartThings Android and iOS app releases, plus highlights from our amazing partners.

New SmartThings App & Hub Features

Sleep & Health Improvements: With customizable sleep reports, you can create an optimal sleep environment, by adjusting temperature, humidity, CO2 levels, and light intensity. Sleep tracking can be seamlessly integrated into automation routines with compatible products, such as lights and thermostats. When paired with the Galaxy Watch or Galaxy Ring, these routines can sync with your actual sleep and wake time. For example, routines can turn off lights and the TV at bedtime or open curtains and play music in the morning.

Intercom Function: You can send voice messages through SmartThings-connected speakers, making in-home communication more convenient. For example, a family member away from home can use the SmartThings app to send a voice message that plays on a home speaker.

Routine Scheduling: SmartThings now supports weekly, monthly, and yearly routine intervals. You can ensure you never miss important events by scheduling routines for birthdays, anniversaries, and more. The possibilities are endless, such as smart lights charging color to celebrate a birthday or the start of your favorite team’s season.

Updated Samsung SmartThings Hub Firmware: Our latest firmware update introduces several enhancements, including reduced “popcorning” with Zigbee lights. This improvement minimizes the visible delay when controlling groups of lights simultaneously.

Explore all these updates and more!

Highlights & Happenings

AI Features for Everyday Life
Did you see our new AI features in TechCrunch? We’re excited about the future and can’t wait to bring these innovations to life with our partners!

Things You Never Knew – But Should!
SmartThings has over 380 million users!

Find More Products: You can find all Works with SmartThings (WWST) products featured on partners.smartthings.com and in the SmartThings app. Be sure to check both to explore the full range of WWST certified products!

Matter Updates

Matter 1.4 Support: Matter 1.4 is now available, and we’re proud to support it with 6 new device types—check out all of our Matter supported device types here.

Matter: Industry Collaboration for a Sustainable Smart Home: In case you missed it, Mark Benson, Head of SmartThings, took part in an insightful talk with industry colleagues on the latest with Matter 1.4 support.

The Speed of Culture Podcast: Mark Benson also recently joined The Speed of Culture Podcast to discuss AI-driven smart home innovation, how SmartThings is making smart homes more intuitive and seamless, why Matter matters, SmartThings Energy, and more. Listen now on Apple and Spotify.

Partner Announcements

• We’re excited to expand our partnership with Arlo, bringing the latest features of Arlo Secure 5 to SmartThings.
• Philips Hue has certified 155 lighting products as Works with SmartThings! By leveraging tools like CbSin the Developer Center, Philips Hue easily certified their entire product lineup. Check out one of the many pieces of coverage in The Ambient.
• Congratulations to Somfy for certifying an additional 93 products, including garage and lighting devices.
• eufy has joined the SmartThings ecosystem! Welcome and congratulations on achieving certification for your Matter door locks.
• We’re also happy to welcome new products from AiDot, Hive, Eve, and many more! Thank you for your support.

Partner Product Highlights

• Discover some of the innovative initiatives our partners are driving!
  • Philips Hue AI-Powered Lighting Assistant
  • Nanoleaf LED Light Therapy Face Mask
  • ecobee Smart Thermostat Essential
  • Aqara Camera Hub G5 Pro

Thank you again for your time and trust in us. With your passion and support, there’s no limit to what we can accomplish together!

The Samsung SmartThings Team

[Jason_Silva]

How about finally making a new hub? Zwave 800 and zigbee 3 with more ram and memory and bring back battery backup. You guys have lost all of your power users because your hardware is old and lacking. Youre way overdue for a new hub.

[Buds_Smart_Home]

@SmartThings

Routine Scheduling: SmartThings now supports weekly, monthly, and yearly routine intervals. You can ensure you never miss important events by scheduling routines for birthdays, anniversaries, and more. The possibilities are endless, such as smart lights charging color to celebrate a birthday or the start of your favorite team’s season.

This states that SmartThings now supports automation routines based on recurring schedules - weekly, monthly, or annual - offering added flexibility for a variety of scenarios. I have not found this capability in the ST app. I’ve looked mainly in the “Routine” tab an I tried to create a routine to see if the option to schedule the routine presented itself. So far I’ve not seen the feature. Perhaps I not looking in the right place? I’m on version 1.7.29.16

[mocelet]

Create a new Routine, If - Time - Repeat and you’ll see something like this:

Smartthings routines in 56.11

The ‘Daily Routine’ has been there for quite a while now. I am wondering if they are alluding to the ‘Time’ condition now having enhanced ‘Repeat’ options. I think those are more recent. [Screenshot_20250409_080020_SmartThings]

[milandjurovic71 (Milan)]

[Andreas_Roedl]

Would be nice to also have this…

… here:

[Buds_Smart_Home]

@mocelet

Create a new Routine, If - Time - Repeat and you’ll see something like this:

Ok. Thank you mocelet. I see the options now. I appreciate the direction. Thank you!

[JDRoberts]

The Samsung SmartThings Station is one of the best home automation hubs available for Matter support, but it seems to be unavailable pretty much everywhere. Even the Samsung site says there are no online retailers carrying it now.

SmartThings Station with Travel Adapter, Black Mobile Accessories - EP-P9500TBEGUS | Samsung US

As long as you don’t need Zwave, it’s been an excellent choice for people looking for a standalone hub that works with Zigbee, matter over thread, and matter over Wi-Fi.

Is this model being discontinued?

[orangebucket (Graham)]

@JDRoberts

Is this model being discontinued?

It would be an odd thing to do without a replacement being lined up, given that it is claimed to have quickly massively outsold all the other hubs put together and also it seems that although it appears to be a wireless charger with a hub, in the spirit of Hub Everywhere, the hub was always the key thing with the wireless charger being more of a nice frock for it to wear.

Odd it never crossed the pond either.

I’m sure there was talk of another hub device a while back, possibly in a speaker or something like that. Never heard any more of that.

[Andreas_Roedl]

@orangebucket

I’m sure there was talk of another hub device a while back, possibly in a speaker or something like that. Never heard any more of that.

Soundbars?

hub:
  - id: "tv-hub"
    deviceLabel: SmartThings Hub
    hardwareType: SAMSUNG_VD_TV_HUB
    deviceProfileName: tv-hub
  - id: "soundbar-hub"
    deviceLabel: SmartThings Hub
    hardwareType: SAMSUNG_SOUNDBAR_TIZEN_OPEN_HUB
    deviceProfileName: soundbar-hub
  - id: "refrigerator-hub"
    deviceLabel: SmartThings Hub
    hardwareType: SAMSUNG_DA_REFRIGERATOR_HUB
    deviceProfileName: refrigerator-hub
  - id: "washer-dryer-hub"
    deviceLabel: SmartThings Hub
    hardwareType: SAMSUNG_WASHER_DRYER_TIZEN_OPEN
    deviceProfileName: washer-dryer-hub
  - id: "cooktop-hub"
    deviceLabel: SmartThings Hub
    hardwareType: SAMSUNG_COOKTOP_TIZEN_OPEN 
    deviceProfileName: cooktop-hub  
hubThing:
  - id: "hub-thing"
    deviceLabel: SmartThings Hub
    deviceProfileName: hub-thing

Music Frame?

[orangebucket (Graham)]

@Andreas_Roedl

Soundbars?

I suspect I am thinking of the Harman Kardon Virtuo, in which case I would imagine it wasn’t particularly cheap if it ever went on sale.