today I'm going to give you all the latest news features and of course new
products that have been integrated with the Samsung SmartThing platform so
let's go
hello Automaters thanks for tuning in again I'm Brian from automate your life
and today I'm going to take the frustration out of automation by keeping
you up to date with the Samsung SmartThings platform now last week I
showed you the app migration or the start of that app migration I've shown
you the new app recently but we have to talk about all the changes that are
coming into the platform right now and one of the biggest changes was actually
a couple of things that I witnessed at CES maybe one of the biggest things at
CES was the omission of the galaxy home or the galaxy home mini and I was able
to travel around on the second day with tech with Brett and we kind of talked
about that device just a little bit and he had seen it he'd managed to snap a
picture of it but when I went back on day four it was no longer there and and
people were basically telling me from Samsung it was not at the show and they
weren't gonna really talk about it so it was quite the omission now what we found
out recently is that it will show up for sale in Korea come February 12th now
there's a couple other details but after that things get pretty scarce we don't
have any details on a US release or any other countries release and we do know
that the device will have the Samsung's Bixby voice assistant on board and it is
rumored to have a Samsung SmartThing hub right on board now that will
obviously be very important for a lot of people because that will start their
process or their movement into the smartthings platform but it remains to
be seen how that will integrate if you already have a hub at CES again I was
walking around and I was actually looking at their robot shell up chef but
you know what I had noticed was this little camera just sitting at the top of
their display just at the edge of it and I never seen it before it was brand new
to me now what this was was the smartthings cam360 and this is a very
different little camera versus what they have today with the Samsung SmartThings
cam this new camera is pan and tilt capable it has 1080p resolution and
two-way audio those details have been released but another thing that sounds
pretty interesting to me and something that I experienced with a recent review
I did on the channel is Waypoint tracking so essentially this camera will
move based on events in your home and that will make it very useful to have it
monitor the right place at the right time that camera should come out in the
first half of 2020 and that will be a very beneficial addition I think to
their overall platform now moving on to one other thing I saw at CES was the
connected car war and this is something that will come in as a new feature
within the Samsung smartthings and their new application and that's a whole
connected car set up but what they've been doing in the background has been
building they've been building their fin and this is now the third generation of
their fin that allows for a connected car it's allowing things like those
commercials you see with the cars where everybody's got a tablet in front of
them and they're all just driving along and enjoying their content but you know
the real point here I think in a lot of cases for Samsung is that they can
connect it into the smartthings application they can connect it in to
all of your appliances and give you true automation based on where you are and
when you're returning home or leaving home and I do believe that this will
allow Samsung to corner a lot of the automation market around vehicles
because they have that fin in so many new cars coming out on the market today
and even in some of the older cars so the next new feature to talk about is
called the home care wizard and this is a brand new smart app that you can find
inside the new application and the intention of this is to help you with
maintenance and reliability and the replacement of different components that
maybe wear out over time within the connected
the Samsung Connect whole suite of products so things like robot vacuums
are the easy thing to see as as maybe a component wears down there or you've
just had a lot of runtime on that device you can look at the components that you
might need to replace and then you can also look at things like fridges and
dryers and washers and all of those things and what you need to do from a
maintenance and reliability standpoint so it's great to see that start to come
in it's very very basic right now you basically can't do anything with it but
this is a new smart app you can add in the new smart things application of
course there's a number of different products that have been newly integrated
into Samsung smartthings one of those is the August connected smart locks and
this is something a lot of you might have been waiting for for a while
because it was announced but hasn't been there now you can go ahead and create
that cloud to cloud integration by adding in your August products ratio
integration is there and it's an interesting take on how you would do a
smart sprinkler system basically each one is a new switch so or each zone that
you have rather is a new switch inside of smart things when you go and create
that integration so you can turn them all on independently and run them with
automations from your smart hub at CES I spent a lot of time with a gentleman
from blaze automation and this is one of the most quickly rising platforms
actually in India he showed me some incredible statistics with some of his
marketing and his branding and I was able to kind of confirm some of this
speaking to some of the other people within the z-wave pavilion now blaze and
the b1 platform here it has integration with the in smart things there's a
couple of different products that he has I'm still not entirely clear as to
everything that's come in from the shellye platform but Shelley has a
number of different devices so if you're someone who has one of those I would
love to hear if you're able to integrate that down in the comments below that all
the different components from Shelley they have a varied lineup there and they
are now supposed to be capable of integrating with smart things we also
saw heaters from enjoyable warmth join the platform and
connected IO connected with a K they're wired alarm adapters actually able to
integrate within smart things as well the sensi thermostat is able to come in
to smart things and finally brilliant and their new smart switch and dimmer
and new smart plug can actually come into the platform as well with all these
new great integrations and new features that are coming into the platform all of
this is great but you do have to be ready for that app migration so the
classic app is starting to go away for people you are going to end up moving
across to the new application and you're going to get an invitation but to know
the full details of this you need to watch last week's video on the full app
migration process how that's going to look how it's going to impact you so go
ahead watch that that's up on screen right now otherwise guys thanks for
watching the smart home news and of course don't hate automate