We’ve been getting lots of questions about support for additional standards here at SmartThings, including standards like WiFi, UPnP, Bonjour, and MQTT, so I wanted to take a minute and give everyone some perspective on these things. There are a variety of initiates across the industry to create ad-hoc standards in support of the Internet→
We’ve made several updates the the Build Site. Most notably the addition of projects functionality. In addition to the ability for members of this community to create and mange their own project blogs we have also just published an overview of the cloud service portion of SmartThings and why we think it is important, as→
Last month, Scott and Jesse gave a demo of a few parts of the SmartThings offering at MinneDemo in Minneapolis. They even showed how they were able to control Spark Devices via cloud-to-cloud communications.
Integration is important. Being able to easily add and configure devices other than our own is something SmartThings fully encourages. That’s why we like to keep our eyes open for emerging products, Kickstarter innovations, and all around cool stuff from around the web. LIFX / Hue / Spark / iLumi One of the most common goals→
This week has been an exciting one so far for the SmartThings team at Le Web. It’s my first time in Paris, and I’m here with co-founders Ben Edwards and Jeff Hagins. We’ve seen some great speakers and have met many people with big ideas for the Internet of Things, which is the theme of→
Thanks for participating in the SmartThings Developer and Maker Contest. There are so many amazing ideas out there; we’ve had over 2,000 ‘Wouldn’t it be smart if…’ submissions since we launched on Kickstarter. They all deserve to be realities, but in order to focus this round of the contest, we want to narrow the submissions→
A key component of the SmartThings vision are the SmartApps. SmartApps interact with your SmartThings, as well as online and other services, to make the world around you smarter and your life easier, more convenient and fun. It could be as simple as a SmartApp that turns on the entryway light when you open the front→
As a group, those of us building SmartThings have worked together for a number of years in an agile fashion. We iterate, tweak, adjust, change, and otherwise break and fix things in rapid succession. Now, we’ve brought that style to the world of hardware, and while we are happy with where we are now, the→
We’re excited with the enthuiasm we have seen from ouf first group of makers and developers who backed us throughout our Kickstarter Campaign. Over 750 of you have stepped up as desiring to help bring the SmartThings platform forward in new and as yet unimagined ways. Over the next few weeks we are going to→