SmartThings Android app 1.8.37.23 (September 2025)

[orangebucket (Graham)]

Curiously the app notice for this release only comments about something to do with Samsung appliances that I feel sure I wouldn’t want and changes to the Windows app which I haven’t looked at.

Thoughts:

• The Map View remains unusable for me. They’ve twiddled the UI a bit but the scaling makes even less sense than before. You can now set the actual measurement of a room, e.g. 3m x 3m, but when you scale it the room still changes size relative to its contents. How does that work then? Weird.
• The Sleep Environment Report configuration now offers me more rooms due to including speakers and lights. It still ignores all my Sonoff temperature/humidity sensors and I can’t begin to guess what it is doing with the lights as only one is included despite many of them using the same model of SmartThings plug.
• A red dot suggests displaying the timezone for the Location is new. I still think they ought to show the presence status for Location members if they are going to persist in hiding the devices.
• The big change for me is that Hubs now have an entry to manage thread networks in the details page Settings menu that allows unification of thread networks.
• The annoying red dot on Home Life seems to have gone.

[Andreas_Roedl]

Seen that?

[orangebucket (Graham)]

I hadn’t, no. Seems a strange place to put it.

It adds a device of type SAFER to the ‘On the go’ room (where SmartTags go by default) and makes it a favourite. Curiously it only adds it one of my Locations, the one I never look at that has no other members.

I haven’t accepted the conditions to see what it does and don’t much care either. I noted the word PREMIUM and laughed.

The device object looks like:

{
    "deviceId": "REDACTED",
    "ownerId": "REDACTED",
    "name": "Safe Button",
    "label": "Safe Button",
    "manufacturerName": "Samsung Electronics",
    "presentationId": "IM-PANICBUTTON-000",
    "locationId": "REDACTED",
    "roomId": "REDACTED",
    "sharedLocations": [],
    "components": [
        {
            "id": "main",
            "label": "main",
            "capabilities": [
                {
                    "id": "safe.panicButton",
                    "version": 1,
                    "optional": false,
                    "status": {
                        "serviceProvider": {
                            "value": "samsung",
                            "timestamp": "2025-09-22T20:53:25.339Z"
                        },
                        "status": {
                            "value": "STANDBY",
                            "timestamp": "2025-09-22T20:53:25.339Z"
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "id": "safe.users",
                    "version": 1,
                    "optional": false,
                    "status": {
                        "users": {
                            "value": null
                        }
                    }
                }
            ],
            "categories": [
                {
                    "name": "PanicButton",
                    "categoryType": "manufacturer"
                }
            ],
            "optional": false
        }
    ],
    "createTime": "2025-09-22T20:53:25.289Z",
    "healthState": {
        "state": "ONLINE",
        "lastUpdatedDate": "2025-09-22T20:55:25.558Z"
    },
    "profile": {
        "id": "6aa680cf-2a2f-3d2c-9bec-a74f3bc3e52a"
    },
    "type": "SAFER",
    "vid": "IM-PANICBUTTON-000",
    "mnmn": "Samsung Electronics",
    "ocfDeviceType": "x.com.st.d.panicbutton",
    "restrictionTier": 0,
    "allowed": [
        "w:devices",
        "w:devices:locationId",
        "w:devices:roomId",
        "d:devices",
        "x:devices",
        "r:devices:visible"
    ],
    "executionContext": "CLOUD",
    "relationships": []
}

[Andreas_Roedl]

It’s basically an emergency button that sends the current location to the location’s members:

History:

[orangebucket (Graham)]

@Andreas_Roedl

It’s basically an emergency button that sends the current location to the location’s members:

Which makes it only installing it on the Location that doesn’t have any members particularly pointless.

Other Location members are supposed to know where I am anyway.

Doesn’t Android already do something along those lines?

[Andreas_Roedl]

@orangebucket

Doesn’t Android already do something along those lines?

Very well hidden in the settings and nobody knows about it.

[stillerson]

By the way and watch out all Homeassistant User:

If this new device type (“safer”) is added into one ST location, your connected HomeAssistant ST-integration will crash after reloading within HA (=adding this device) and not work anymore, as for now.

[Francois_Venter]

I have logged an issue on Home Assistant Github page. Will also log on HA community forum

[orangebucket (Graham)]

Has the app always rotated into landscape mode or is that fairly new? I’ve literally never seen it do it on my phone before.

[Andreas_Roedl]

@orangebucket

Has the app always rotated into landscape mode

Yes, it did - at least on Android.

[TapioX]

In addition to the SmartThings Android app version 1.8.37.23, does the hub need to have new firmware 58.10 for the connection path to work?

@mocelet

Matter over Thread devices now display the connection path too in the app (1.8.37 in Android at least), like they did in Zigbee.

I’ve been waiting for 24 hours now and still the same text

[mocelet]

@TapioX

does the hub need to have new firmware 58.10 for the connection path to work?

Probably, that information is not retrieved by the drivers so it needs specific support in the hub firmware.

[mocelet]

@TapioX

SmartThings Edge Driver Matter Switch Eve Energy ST App Detail View Connection path missing1080×297 26.8 KB

I decided to test if unplugging the Thread plug that was in the path of a Thread sensor would break something and for how long. Good news is that I didn’t notice anything and the contact sensor was working just fine right after unplugging it.

Regarding the app, the path didn’t change despite the intermediate plug no longer being online. Now I’m seeing that Connection path message. Will check later if it updates or not.

Edit: OK, didn’t take long to update and now it’s shown as directly connected to the hub which was expected.

[Andreas_Roedl]

Next step: Zigbee and Thread connection path overlay in the (3D) map.

[Francois_Venter]

The issue with the SmartThings integration on home assistant has been fixed in the latest HA beta release.

[TapioX]

@mocelet

@TapioX

SmartThings Edge Driver Matter Switch Eve Energy ST App Detail View Connection path missing1080×297 26.8 KB

I decided to test if unplugging the Thread plug that was in the path of a Thread sensor would break something and for how long. Good news is that I didn’t notice anything and the contact sensor was working just fine right after unplugging it.

Regarding the app, the path didn’t change despite the intermediate plug no longer being online. Now I’m seeing that Connection path message. Will check later if it updates or not.

Edit: OK, didn’t take long to update and now it’s shown as directly connected to the hub which was expected.

No change. All three hubs have now been on version 58.10 for 12 hours.

Maybe my Thread network is too complex for SmartThings AI. I have one Thread device, an Eve Energy Smart Plug, but it’s connected to two ST Hubs.

[orangebucket (Graham)]

Slight diversion, but this is what the info looks like in the API.

"matter": {
        "matterMetric": {
            "general": {
                "bootStatus": [
                    {
                        "time": "2025-09-29T21:11:40.218362979Z",
                        "rebootCount": 3,
                        "uptimeSeconds": 12666100
                    }
                ]
            },
            "wifiNetwork": {
                "linkInfo": [],
                "linkQuality": []
            },
            "threadNetwork": {
                "linkQuality": []
            }
        },
        "matterRouteInfo": {
            "threadNetwork": {
                "uplink": [
                    {
                        "deviceId": "REDACTED ID OF THE MOTION SENSOR",
                        "parentDeviceId": "REDACTED ID OF A SMART PLUG",
                        "healthState": "ONLINE",
                        "lastUpdatedDate": "2025-09-30T09:11:29.113719403Z"
                    },
                    {
                        "deviceId": "REDACTED ID OF A SMARTPLUG",
                        "parentDeviceId": "REDACTED ID OF THE HUB",
                        "healthState": "ONLINE",
                        "lastUpdatedDate": "2025-09-30T09:11:29.113733111Z"
                    }
                ],
                "downlink": []
            }
        }
    }

When I previously tried this with my beta hub, using multi-admin to get a single plug to appear as two devices on two hubs in the same Location, I didn’t get any joy. Then again SmartThings is a bit weird in that situation as you can turn off one hub and both devices go offline in SmartThings (while still working in Google). Anyway, that’s drifting too far off topic. Update: I repeated the test. Still no route.

[orangebucket (Graham)]

I recently had occasion to use Scan Nearby when adding a device. That page seems to have had a makeover.

I also note that the Find SmartApp now supports having a custom image for devices and makes a point of telling you this for every tag. It doesn’t yet have any bearing on the mobile app itself. It is nice having unique images for each tag but I don’t think photos are otherwise an improvement.

[Dave-B (Dave)]

I have ST App 1.8.37.23 & Aeotec Hub 58.10 installed for nearly a week. I still get the “Getting connection path” message. I have Eve Door/Window contacts & Inovelli White series Switches. Anybody know why I cant get connection paths?

[Andrew_Bartlett]

@Dave-B

Anybody know why I cant get connection paths?

It seems not all thread devices are supported, my arre button is supported but arpobot blinds not.