Something big is coming! (June 2021 app update)

Apps & Clients SmartThings (Samsung Connect)
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I hope it really is something significant. Clearly local automations/rules are imminent but although welcome that only becomes a game changer when more device integrations run local and are also updated for popular sensors, and also when more of the Rules API is exposed to make it possible to actually write something worth running. It doesn’t really fit the big and new billing.

To actually fit the big and new billing it would have to be the new hub connected devices and I’m out of the loop on progress with those. I’m hoping for a massive change in approach with those.

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If it’s SmartThings-specific, I think announcing Matter-compatibility would also qualify. :thinking:

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Think BIGGER! And out-of-the-box… maybe ST is licensing the platform to Aeotec. :sunglasses:

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Hmmmm… not sure how that would work for the Samsung smart appliances and televisions. Unless they take back an app just for those.

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I’m thinking they’ve changed the choice of backgrounds in the apps.

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Maybe allow you upload your own pic as the background! :exploding_head::joy:

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But only on Samsung devices.

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LOL, I was going to post the same thing.

It will be beta only though … for two years.

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Been waiting 4 years for this …

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there is a shortage of rice coming!

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I think the odds on the ‘something big’ being a new UI for the app have shortened somewhat now they’ve released a notice describing it.

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They have released the notice, however I cannot see the new app UI or and update to the app.

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Sadly it looks like the UI follows the fad of having tabs at the bottom of the screen instead of at the top. Are the UI designers in league with scooter phone thieves or something? Some of us cradle our phones like we are holding er … phones. We don’t hold them by the bottom half an inch.

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Well somebody messed up again! :stuck_out_tongue: Btw wasn’t the smartthings classic similar?

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Yeah I have to admit I am not a fan of Tab, I find I get lost in different menus.

However one thing I am looking forward too is the diary tiles.

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So, it could be that the ‘big new’ feature is related to this new SmartThings GUI skin notice, but this notice does not appear on my iPad so the SmartThings app for iPhone/iPad users might not receive this ‘big new’ GUI skin. However, it could just be a delayed notice for iOS.

I checked both the Google Play & Samsung Galaxy app stores, but no new app is being offered to me as of yet. (tick-tock)

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For the love … if it is a new UI then I really hope it’s not just a skin and they’ve reworked the architecture so load times get us to a usable app.

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Hmmm…I wonder if there will be voice navigation for the swipe? And to jump to the bottom tab row? :thinking:

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Guys this has been delayed so be patient

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I have to chuckle that they still can’t decide what terminology to use for scenes and automations. I don’t think routines has ever been used in the SmartThings landscape.

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