How To Set Up Smartthings Hub

Since November 2022, our brand Aeotec has been offering the Smart Dwelling house Hub from Samsung. To help you become started, nosotros have created this tutorial. Please note: the Hub is suitable for beginners and professionals who want their ain developer platform.

Setting upwardly the SmartThings Hub

Get-go, y'all need to download the SmartThings app to your smart device (smartphone or tablet). A SmartThings account or Samsung account is required for employ. If yous already have Samsung devices – such as a smartphone or a Smart Goggle box – y'all tin skip this step, because you probably have a free customer account.

Now you must connect your new SmartThings Hub to your account. The Internet connection of the hub is via LAN or wirelessly via WLAN.

In the last step of the set-up, the hub downloads the latest update.

What the SmartThings app offers

If you already ain a Smart Telly, a vacuum cleaner or another smart device from Samsung, y'all will probably know the SmartThings app. The app is too the command and set-upward centre for the hub. With its clean and tidy design, it is reminiscent of Apple's HomeKit and makes a very expert visual impression. Via the plus symbol, you can add new devices, rooms or users. Yous tin can also connect SmartThings with your voice assistant or create rules and scenes. In the following sections, we will explain how this works merely and easily via the functional and intuitive app.

Ready upwards users via the SmartThings App

If you lot do not live alone in your home, you can invite family members to SmartThings. So they likewise accept access to the Smart Home system. The invitation is possible in two unlike ways: via an invitation link by e-mail or by generating a QR lawmaking. The QR code must be scanned past your family unit member with the SmartThings app – done.

Set up rooms with SmartThings

Setting up rooms is a applied and important matter to assign and group networked devices. This is done apace and hands with the SmartThings app. In addition, SmartThings offers you lot the choice of assigning private background images to your rooms.

Rules and scenes

Rules, also called automations, are at the heart of every smart home. Because the purpose of a smart and connected habitation is the automation. SmartThings offers the "If…, and so…" rules, which can be used for all kinds of things. For example, switch on the light when the Smart Lock or the presence detection (geofencing) signals that yous are coming home. Many different states can exist used for the rules, such equally the status of devices, the measured humidity and much more. Thanks to "preconditions", conditions tin too be combined. Thus, more complex rules are possible – for instance, that the calorie-free is only switched on between 6 pm and 11 pm.

Scenes can besides be created with SmartThings. With them, you can define a sequence of actions or the state of devices. A classic example is the "Good morning" scene, which sets divers lamps in the firm to a sure effulgence and raises the shutters in the house.

Nothing works without devices

Rules and scenes are a dandy, only they are useless if they take no devices to control.

The core of every smart abode, likewise the hub, are the devices to exist controlled. SmartThings supports a whole range of sensors and actuators from unlike manufacturers. This is possible considering the hub works with the ZigBee and Z-Wave frequency. More than than 1,000 manufacturers utilize Z-Wave, for instance. ZigBee is used by known brands such as Philips Hue and IKEA. Thanks to these two standards, all kinds of devices can be continued to the SmartThings Hub. This saves energy and makes management easier. SmartThings also supports other frequencies from other manufacturers. For instance devices, which works via WLAN. Nevertheless, a separate bridge or hub can too be continued to the SmartThings central unit. Some examples are the security cameras from Arlo, the lights from Lifx, the products from Nest or the popular modules from Shelly. The lights and lamps from Philips Hue can also exist integrated into SmartThings – straight and also via the span. In this way, other services such as Hue Sync tin still be used.

No affair which solution you cull: Please note that this is a cloud-to-cloud connection. This means that if the internet fails, these devices tin no longer be controlled via the SmartThing Hub.

Many possibilities with SmartApps

The options explained are the bones functions and are suitable and sufficient for beginners. But if you lot want to become even more out of SmartThings, you can use the "SmartApps".

These are aimed at avant-garde users and hobbyists who want more than. Via a web interface you can add new devices and services to the Smart Things. You "only" need to programme the advisable code for this. A large number of examples and codes are already available on the developer platform "GitHub". You can simply copy and paste them. On this way you can get more than possibilities – for example: data for rain, wind and outdoor temperatures of the weather station from netatmo. On this fashion, many services and products that have non been officially supported can control via your Smart Home arrangement.