So LG is coming up with their HA hub that plays music while controling your connected devices and Iris sensors! It should be interesting… [image] LG has a smarthome hub that looks a lot like an Amazon Echo At this rate, what'll the company have left to debut at CES in Las Vegas next week? …

Interesting. The name perplexes me as it is borderline identical to SmartThings minus a few characters. In addition, it doesn’t support zWave, which in mind is a critical mistake as most of us users rely on zWave and have invested in it. Competition is good though.

Yeah, 70% of my HA devices are z-wave. For some reason, more companies are shying away from zwave. Which puzzles me, because in my experience zwave is far more solid than zigbee, although zigbee devices are more flexible to work with, so probably that’s why they are favorites?

Z-Wave is proprietary. Lots of companies don’t want to pay the proprietary tax. But yeah, I think a hub needs to support Z-Wave and Zigbee, both. And probably Thread, too.

Good to know LG sticks with industry standards and does not try reinvent the wheel. The hybrid speaker comes in a pair of colors (champagne gold and black), supports Alljoyn’s open source platform for ease of interoperability and its manufacturer even recently struck a deal with home improvement s…

It maybe that z-wave was omitted by mistake? Here is a diagram of LG connected thinQs :smile: [image]

It has Zwave. And an IFTTT channel. But it’s not yet known what if any conditional logic options it will offer. [image] LG's bringing a brainy smart home control device to CES The SmartThinQ Hub tells you what your smart home is up to on its LCD screen. It promises to work with a wide var…

Interesting how CNET mentions z-wave, while LGs PR doesn’t. So I guess we will know more in few days. From LGs PR: “The SmartThinQ Hub plays a central role in LG’s smart home platform by collecting information from smart appliances as well as conventional devices connected to SmartThinQ sensors vi…

If all that’s true around zwave, then the only issue is that hideous product name which is impossible to say and looks identical to our precious baby lmao I wouldn’t be surprised if Samsung lawyers are already sending cease and desist letters

[image] Mbhforum: I wouldn’t be surprised if Samsung lawyers are already sending cease and desist letters Really? “SmartThings” was a rather poor choice in establishing a unique and protectable brand and trademark. Just around here we have: SmartTiles SmartRules Smart Home Smart Alarm Th…

Admittedly, I am not a lawyer, nor familiar with the various laws regarding branding and my comments were more tongue and cheek. That being said, you have one of Samsung’s largest competitors in the consumer electronic space coming out with a product that nearly is identical to yours and the only d…

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I’ve been able to adapt a DTH and SmartApp made by someone else to work with my UK LG ThinQ washer - I’ve shared more details in this thread:

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