What brands and products should we bring onto SmartThings? CES 2026

Devices & Integrations Connected Things
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Hey everyone,

We recently got back from CES and had many good conversations with smart home companies.

We announced new partnerships with IKEA, Arlo, and Govee! For Govee in particular, your user feedback in the community was definitely a driver to bring them onto SmartThings. Thank you for that.

Here is our LinkedIn post on the announcement.

Their Matter devices with SmartThings are easy to setup, bring fast local control, and reliability. We’ll be sharing more on these and other takeaways from CES.

→ But we would love to hear your thoughts on what additional brands, products, and ecosystem categories we should bring onto Works with SmartThings?

So we have 3 questions for the community:

Question 1: Which brands or products that are not supported by SmartThings, but you wish were? (e.g. Roborock vacuums, Hunter Fans, Whisker Litter-Robot, Ecovacs Deebot T30, etc)

These could be brands that you currently use or brands that you wish to buy.

Question 2: Which of the following device categories that SmartThings does not currently support would you like us to integrate with? (e.g. pet care devices, robotic vacuums, certain outdoor devices, etc)

Question 3: Any categories that we need more coverage in?

Please let us know what you think. Thank you for your inputs!

Thank you @jkp for sharing more on CES 2026.

Here’s a smart home category break-down if needed…

Main Category Device Type Catalog Category
Climate & Air Quality
Fan Fan
Humidifier Humidifier
TempHumiditySensor Humidity & Temperature Sensors
AirPurifier Air purifier
Air Quality Detector Air Quality Sensor
Diffuser Diffuser
Vent Vent
Thermostat Thermostats
WeatherStation
Airpurify Humidifier
HumiditySensor
TempSensor
Smart Mask
Dehumidifier Dehumidifier
AirConditioner Air conditioner
Lights & Switches
Light Light Bulbs
Switch Switches and Dimmers
Flashlight
Ceiling Lights
Electrical Control & Energy
Power Meter Power Meter
PowerMeasurementSensor
SolarPanel
Smart home adapter
Energy monitoring
ElectricVehicleCharger Electric Vehicle Charger
Charger Wireless charger
Battery
Smart Outlets
SmartPlug Outlets
Safety & Access Control
GarageDoor Garage Doors
SmartLock Locks
DoorBell Doorbells
Tracker Tracker
Siren Siren
Bluetooth Tracker
Safe
Elevator
Door
SecurityPanel
Safer
Cameras
Security Window
SmokeDetector Smoke/Fire Detector
TagReader
Buttons
Button Remotes & Buttons
Home Automation & Controllers
Bridges Bridge
Hub
WiFiRouter
RemoteController
IR Remote
VoiceAssistance Voice Assistance
AV Edge Repeater/Extender
Smart home adapter
Wi-Fi/hub
WLAN/Hub
Kitchen Appliances
Cooktop Cooktop
Range Range
Dishwasher Dishwasher
coffee Maker Coffee maker
Oven Oven
Refrigerator Refrigerator
KitchenHood Hood
Wine Cellar Wine cellar
RiceCooker Rice Cooker
Cube Refrigerator (DA-specific)
Kimchi Refrigerator
Stove
Microwave Microwave
Disposer Food Waste
Vacuums
RobotCleaner Robot vacuum
StickVacuumCleaner Stick vacuum
Bath & Water Fixtures
faucet Faucet
TowelRack Towel Rack
toilet
shower
Bidet
BathroomHeater
Laundry & Clothing Care
Washer Washer
Dryer Dryer
ClothingCareMachine Steam Closet
AirDresser
ShoesCareMachine ShoeDresser
MicroFiberFilter Microfiber filter
Entertainment & Media
Television TV
Music system Music system
Sound bar Soundbar
Blu-ray player Blu-ray Player
Smart Monitor Monitor
Receiver AV receiver
Projector Projector
set-top box
UPnPMediaRenderer
NetworkAudio
Display
Headphone
Speaker Speakers
Earbuds Buds
SoundMachine
Bluetoothcarspeaker
SoundMachine
HomeTheater
Smart Sensors & Detection
PresenceSensor Presence Sensors
MotionSensor Motion Sensors
Vision Sensor Vision sensor
GenericSensor
Sound Sensor
Light Sensor
Flow Sensor
ContactSensor Open/Closed Sensors
MultiFunctionalSensor Multipurpose Sensors
ZoneSensor
Water & Irrigation
LeakSensor Water Leak Sensors
WaterValve Valves
Rain Sensor Rain Sensor
Irrigation Irrigation
Pump Pump
Water Freeze Detector
ChlorineSensor
PHSensor
WaterPurifier Water Purifier
Garden
PlantGrower
Sleep
HeatedMattressPad Heated Mattress Pad
Bed
Pillow Pillow
Heating Cooling Mat
Health & Fitness
HealthTracker Health Trackers
Fitness Mat Fitness Mat
Scale to measure mass of human body Weight Scale
Massage Chair
Band
IndoorCycle Indoor Cycle
BloodPressureMonitor Blood Pressure Monitor
BloodGlucoseMonitor Blood Glucose Monitor
Rower Rower
Shoes Shoes
StepMachine Step Machine
Treadmill Treadmill
Watch
MedicalThermometer Thermometer
StairClimber
CyclingSensor
Elliptical
Home Utilities
Water heater Water heaters
Gas Valve
GasMeter
HeatPump
Pet Care
Feeder Pet feeder
Cat Toilet
Other
Others Other
Windows & Window Coverings
Blind Window Treatment
WindowOpener Window Opener
Window
Shade
Office & Communications
Mobile Phone
Printer
PrinterMultiFunction
Scanner
MobilePresence
Tablet
Transportation
Ship
Car
Industrial IoT
Storage
Robots
HomeRobot
Delivery Robot
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I would like to see an Official Sleep Number bed integration. There is a great developer here with one he is building, but it cannot do what I want, particularly real time out of bed updates.

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Matter devices should be easy to setup, fast and reliable without any partnership, it’s a standard after all. That’s why I still don’t get why an Eve Energy appears in SmartThings Energy but a Tapo P110M will not when using the exact same Matter driver and reporting the data the same Matter 1.3 way.

Partnerships are beneficial though for a vendor-driven platform like SmartThings. It’s been thanks to IKEA BILRESA that SmartThings is finally adding a relative brightness control action (i.e. “increase brightness a 10%”) that, hopefully, will be available for every SmartThings light (and light groups) and not just the Matter driver used by KAJPLATS.

Does the new partnership with Govee mean we’ll see third party scenes support in SmartThings? I have to currently use a virtual switch exposed to Google Home to be able to activate a scene with dynamic colours in my WiZ lights and it feels I should be able to do it right inside SmartThings.

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Q1:

1.The one specific set of products which was supposed to have happened a couple of years ago is LG white goods integration.

2.Eufy doorbell (may not support it- but doorbells in general)

3. QNAP - I know many things can be configured via Linux but was thinking higher level apps and control that don’t require programming.

Q2: Several product categories I’d love to see (not sure if most of these devices even exist though):

  1. SMART UPS
  2. Toggle/Dimmer switches with integrated energy monitoring
  3. Heavy duty switches with integrated energy monitoring (not for lighting use: ~40 A, 240 AC)
  4. Doorbell-Eufy
  5. Printers/MF
  6. Smart panels (to control power consumption as opposed to the products that solely meter power use)
  7. Weather stations
  8. Glare sensor (more spread-out than standard lighting sensor that have to be positioned precisely)
  9. Electric candles (some of which can be turned on/off remotely already)
  10. Small kitchen appliances (coffee maker, toaster, ice cream maker, etc.) to allow energy monitoring and remote configuration and scheduling as applicable.
  11. Commercial/Industrial sensor interfaces (e.g. 4-20 ma, 0-5DVC, pulses, etc. with screw terminals to attach and configure a wide variety of non-smart sensors)
  12. Desk lamps (ones with built in configurable LEDs but not hard wired)
  13. Thermostats used with variable speed HVAC units- most of which are proprietary.
  14. Small refrigerators/ wine coolers

Q3

  1. More brands of smart outlets and plugs that work with ST energy monitoring
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I would like to have

Ecovacs robots

Hama Smart Home

Hue Syncbox integration

Tile Trackers

Maybe also older Smart TV from Samsung. My old samsung LED40 for example is discoverd by Home assistant but not by Smartthings

Sony Playstation ?

And please ,bring Z-Wave back to the New Hubs. Please

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I thought about it for a long time - whether there’s any particular brand or manufacturer that I personally miss and nothing came to mind. I pay more attention to the Matter logo. Just as an example: my Nuki lock has a Matter logo and SmartThings is proudly wearing the Matter 1.5 logo, but…

Before adding support for more device types, the platforms should first implement all features for the device types they already support. There’s little point in introducing categories like irrigation or cameras if only a subset of their functionality is actually supported.

Yes, many Matter features are marked as optional in the specification - but that applies to the devices themselves, not to the platforms.

Otherwise, we end up in the same situation we had with Zigbee: users and developers have to build their own Matter drivers or extend the stock drivers just to support features that should be a given. It can’t be that a platform simply waits for a device manufacturer like Nuki to show up with an application for the “Works With SmartThings” certification before, for example, a basic door state feature makes it into the Matter Lock driver.

Another example is the Matter Thermostat driver. With most heating systems, schedules are written directly to the device - yet that still isn’t possible. (Yes, I know…) Proper occupancy handling is missing as well. And I don’t need to explain how crucial Matter binding is for thermostats: without it, there’s no reliable way to pair external sensors (temperature, window open/close) with, for example, TRVs. People keep asking for this and end up cobbling together fragile routines as a workaround. Device manufacturers will only start implementing all these features in their Matter products once the platforms actually support them.

And we shouldn’t forget who created Matter: the major platforms - not the comparatively small device manufacturers. That’s why the platforms should lead the way.

One manufacturer did come to mind after all: Samsung. My home appliances and TV are slowly getting old, and they just need to last until models finally hit the market that support Matter out of the box. I’m not bringing anything else (like OCF) into my home anymore and that’s when the Matter Appliance Edge Driver will finally get its chance to shine.

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  1. Definitely robot vacuums. Those have been requests since SmartThings was very first released, and they are often one of the most expensive smart devices that a customer has purchased other than white goods and Hvac, but there’s no way to bring them in, which is very frustrating for both plug-in play, and power user customers. Matter will help, but so far the matter vacuum standard is pretty limited.

  2. acoustic sensors. Although at first glance it seems like there aren’t many of these, pretty much any smart Phone can act as one (including galaxy) and there’s no easy way to get the information into a SmartThings routine.

  3. cameras. This is another one that’s been requested since the beginning of SmartThings. At this point, though, I’m willing to wait for a matter specification and start from there.

other than that, as @mocelet and @Andreas_Roedl said, the best thing for me, and I think most people would be to focus on implementing as much of the matter standard as possible.

Up until now, Samsung has been ahead of the other major platforms in implementing the new matter releases, and I would like to see them really lean into that and get it right and then we’ll have many options and be able to keep up with brands that haven’t even been introduced yet.

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Govee devices that are NOT matter compatible. Ecovacs robots. Mammotion robots. GE appliances.

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Great responses in here. My input would be, please listen and follow-up. We’ve been asked so many times and it falls on deaf ears.

Thanks.

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For years Broadlink was at the top of my wishlist as integrations with such as Google Home were hopelessly inadequate. I rarely use voice control these days and have never used mobile apps for control, so Broadlink use is near zero now. It always needed SmartThings for me. Do I still care? I don’t know.

I am also wary of partnership announcements. An LG one has been mentioned in this thread, and then of course there was the one about how SmartThings and Google had teamed up so that Matter devices would automatically be installed in both apps which never seemed to happen (probably just as well).

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Q1:
Tado heating systems (and not just the new Matter-enabled X version please)
Reolink cameras (better yet, generic ONVIF)

Q2:
Nothing particular I’d want in my household.

Q3:
Better integration of Tuya cloud-to-cloud devices. I have smart plugs that have energy monitoring but SmartThings doesn’t map that. Lights that have tuneable white but the scale as presented by ST is all wrong. Dehumidifiers that don’t map at all. Smart plug and nightlight combo where the plug maps, but the energy monitoring and the nightlight don’t.

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Integrations - Roborock vacuums, bedjet, WiiM

The rest - smart television platform integration like we had with Samsung TV’s but then lost unless we bought new, full features of Nest thermostats. Almost any improvement with cameras.

Like others have said, full support of matter. It’s really frustrating to get a device, add it to the SmartThings ecosystem, then not be able to use all of its features.

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Thank you for all the feedback! This is super helpful and gives us plenty of detailed insights to dig into.

I passed the feedback over to our product team, partner team, and others.

Cameras and Locks: Cameras are a major focus for us this year. We’ve officially rolled out support for the Matter 1.5 standard for cameras and are looking forward to welcoming devices from our launch partners (Eve, Aqara, Xthings) in the short term and others throughout the year.

We’re also investing heavily in expanding our door lock ecosystem, specifically around the Aliro standard.

Other Device Types:

Thank you all for providing new device types for us to look into as well. Sleep Number for sure has a strong user base. @KenW48360. Samsung / SmartThings continues to invest in health options including recent announcements at CES 2026 so definitely some things for us to look into more.

Matter Implementation:

Then on the Matter standard; definitely some great perspectives here. Thank you @andreas for your detailed examples. We will consider these improvements against our product strategy.

Our position has always been to support as many device types and operationalize Matter advancements as fast and stable as possible keeping our product strategy and the demands of the market in mind. Thank you for sharing more about the thermostat schedules or advanced lock states.

But Matter remains a high company priority and we will continue to build out support here.

IKEA:

As you point out @mocelet, we’re definitely excited about the new IKEA lineup of 21 Matter-over-Thread devices, including the KAJPLATS lights and BILRESA remotes. Read more.

Govee:

We’re always looking to bring on more partner products and this will apply to Govee too. Then for Govee scenes, we can’t pass that information over currently due to limitations on custom capabilities. Due to us supporting standard capabilities from our device partners vs custom capabilities.

So at least at the moment, the virtual switch @mocelet you mentioned is still a good workaround. Thank you for your technical support on that one as well as @JDRoberts, @orangebucket, @TAustin, and many others for super helpful community posts on this one.

Appreciate all the feedback and please add anything else.

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