SmartThings and Samsung Team Up to Make Your TV a Smart Home Hub

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SmartThings and Samsung Team Up to Make Your TV a Smart Home Hub - by Jordan Crook/ TC (Tech Crunch)/ techcrunch.com

"Samsung and SmartThings are buddying up to introduce Samsung’s latest line of Smart TVs, complete with SmartThings platform integration so folks can use their TVs as an interface to control the home.

There is no shortage of internet-connected devices out there, from standard security systems and smart lighting systems all the way to the connected kettle. But a connective language that unifies those devices is harder to come by. SmartThings is aiming to introduce that by teaming up with potential interfaces, including the Amazon Echo and this most recent foray into Smart TVs..."

Richard

 

[Ken555]

I'm surprised it took them this long to do this. After all, Samsung bought Smartthings in fall 2014.

 

[SMHarman]

I'm surprised it took them this long to do this. After all, Samsung bought Smartthings in fall 2014.

To make this stuff look easy is really hard.

 

[Ken555]

To make this stuff look easy is really hard.

Gosh, really? Still, SmartThings understood its product so all they had to do was build the hub into a tv. This can't be all that difficult.


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[SMHarman]

The problem with most HA / IOT is that gen one is rushed and crap and early adopters get badly burned and then it whithers and fails.

Hopefully this had the development to avoid that.