What smart devices do you feel are missing or underrepresented? (Especially UK/EU)

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Hi,

We’re looking to get views from the SmartThings community — are there any smart devices you think are missing from the market, or where the available options are just not great?

Could be things you’ve had to make, import from another region, or use workarounds for.

We’re especially interested in the UK/EU area, but open to hearing from everyone.

To be transparent, I’m with a smart home company (Candeo), and this is part of some market research we’re doing. No sales pitch — just hoping to learn directly from users, what they are looking for.

Really appreciate any thoughts!

Thanks.

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I’d say that my smart home is finally complete now (thanks, midlife crisis!). Now I’m sitting here waiting for all the LG and IKEA Matter over Thread devices (sensors), so I can replace everything that’s not M/T. I’m also looking forward to the Philips TVs with their Matter media cluster, because I really want to write an Edge Driver for something that hasn’t been done before.

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  1. Smart locks for windows (not doors). I only know of one (Siegenia) and while it’s a good one, it’s too large for many windows.

  2. automatic door openers for both swing doors and slide doors that work with the smart voice assistants. (Alexa, Google, Siri).

Olide has some good models at reasonable prices, but they are quite complex to install.

Tuya has some models which are pretty much useless because they just aren’t powerful enough for a typical exterior door and they lack a lot of safety features.

  1. a smart pressure sensor Mat in two sizes. One small enough to put a coffee mug on, say 15 cm square. And one about doormat size.

Sure, power users can make their own and do, but something that worked with Matter out of the box would have a lot of interesting applications.

The following thread has a bunch of use cases

Smart Chair

But there are more as well. Everything from tracking if the dog has been fed to. If the trash cans have been put out to all the various use cases around whether someone is sitting in a particular chair…

I realize this is potentially a smaller market size than the first two because you may have to explain the use cases a little more to help people understand the value proposition, but it’s definitely a missing piece in the market right now.

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So a UK +1 for pressure mats with a sub-topic of bed occupancy sensor…

Tilt sensor (mercury style)

Both things I have cobbled together in the past using ST devices as a base but are no longer feasible (for me) as the base devices need specific drivers to not register with thier native functionality - I wrote custom groovy for them but couldn’t be bothered with edge :roll_eyes:… Also:

Vehicle battery level monitor

Outdoor battery powered IR beam sensor

Probably think of more but these 4 I could use now :nerd_face:

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