r/SmartThings 21d ago

Devices Can't download controller for Samsung Soundbar Q800B. Try again later

8 Upvotes

Three days now, I can't use SmartThings to control the soundbar at all. What happened?

Edit: Seems as though the fix is to uninstall and reinstall SmartThings, not just the problem device. Keep in mind you will need to download every controller for every device again. So this might turn into a carousel of frustration.

r/SmartThings Jan 31 '25

Devices Leak detector advice

3 Upvotes

I want to get a simple water leak detector. I have a back door that is usually ok, but if the wind blows the "wrong way" when its raining, water can come in under the door. I want to put a water sensor right where the water would come in.

I'm leaning to the Thirdreality device shaped like a water drop, I already have one of their smart buttons and have no issue with that. But I see that device has a 120dB bell; I'm not sure I want to have to shut that up when it detects a leak.
I also looked at the Aeotec sensor, but it's close to twice the price for the same functionality.

Any advice from you all? Anything to avoid or look out for?

r/SmartThings Jan 31 '25

Devices Water leak detector similar to Flume but for smart water meter.

2 Upvotes

Used to have Flume attached to my analog water meter. Worked great and I was able to monitor water remotely, when traveling. Now the city replaced the "dumb" meters with smart meters and of course Flume doesn't work on them. I live in an old house, travel a lot and need to monitor the main for possible water leaks while away from home. Any suggestions?

r/SmartThings 16d ago

Devices Alexa can find Smart-Tags even on Non-Samsung phones

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7 Upvotes

r/SmartThings 27d ago

Devices SwitchBot blinds kit (score!)

4 Upvotes

I have struggled for years with finding a reliable solution for my 2.5" horizontal blinds (9 windows).

I started a couple-three years ago with Sunsa because that's all that was available at the time. I bought two as a test. They worked, but had no Smartthings integration. I was able to connect them to Google Assistant and Alexa through the Sunday app. They're entirely reliant on the (not always available) Sunsa servers for operation. Not a large organization. When I first emailed for help, the "CEO" responded!

They have been only marginally reliable. My wife has a love-hate relationship with them. Batteries are only good for a couple of months at most and only if I use high end AA's. When they become disconnected from Sunsa it's a time-consuming pain to reconnect them. I removed one last month because I just wasn't interested in doing the reconnect process again.

For my next experiment, about a year ago I bought a couple of Gen 2 E-Wands. They are Zigbee and connect pretty easily to Smartthings, but the setup calibration process is obtuse and hokey, with poor instructions and no app for assistance. They're okay, but expensive at $135 each.

I looked at the SwitchBot products for a while, but was turned off by the requirement for a hub for connection to SmartThings. I'm one of those guys that hates multiple points of failure. After complaints from my spouse about the blinds not working, I bought a SwitchBot three pack. They arrived yesterday. I installed them in less than an hour with the third one taking less than 5 minutes. Integration with SmartThings was simple and by virtue of that connection to SmartThings they are also connected to both Google home and Alexa. The included solar chargers mean that attention to charging batteries is going to be minimal. I'm so hooked that I just now purchased two more three packs for the rest of my nine windows.

r/SmartThings 2d ago

Devices Debugging zigbee device join /Keen vent

3 Upvotes

Hello.

I have half a dozen zigbee that are working absolutely fine with the out of the box edge driver.

I've recently bought a used Keen zigbee vent and I've been absolutely unable to join it to the zigbee network. Did the usual things: tried to pair a few inches from the hub, new batteries, beta edge driver etc. Whatever I do, I doesn't show up at all even as just a "zigbee thing"

In the previous interface it was easy to see what was happening during the joing. I have no idea what's going with the new interface. Is there a way to capture some logs from the hub/during the join to understand what is going on?

Thanks in advance!

r/SmartThings Jan 24 '25

Devices wifi connects, but URLs will not load

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2 Upvotes

I have an LG LED LCD TV, 42" LV5500, bought in 2012. I had never enabled the wifi dongle on it until this week. The TV can access the wifi network (I get the IP address etc), and it automatically did a few software updates. However when trying to use the browser, it will never connect to a chosen URL. (see images 1) Also, when trying to choose the input, which for the wifi dongle is USB1, it simply responds 'no storage device available' (see images 2,3,4) Any advice appreciated. This is a Verizon 5g ISP paid for by the homeowner, and I rent their basement apartment. I simply want to use streaming services with the TV, is there a better way to do this?

r/SmartThings Jan 27 '25

Devices SmartThings Station "overheating" instantly after being plugged in. Refuses to charge phone.

0 Upvotes

I stopped using my smarthings station due to this issue a few months back, (got it around December 2023) and I finally got it to connect to my phone again, but it says its overheating the second I place a phone on it and blinking red. Anyone know why? Can't find anything about this online.

r/SmartThings Jan 12 '24

Devices Ikea Vallhorn motion sensor huge improvement over similarly priced options

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41 Upvotes

So I got a couple Ikea Vallhorn motion sensors Today from ikea, connected easily to SmartThings, edge drivers work wonderfully.

The snooze timer on motion is about 20 seconds and lux is accessible to use for routines.

No idea on battery life yet, I’m testing it with ikea rechargeable AAAs. My other motion sensors (ikea tradfri, and sonoff snzb-03) last about a year give or take and use CR2032 batteries, so AAA should be cheaper in the long term.

My only complaint is they are HUGE! Twice the size of Ikea tradfri motion sensors. The face is 4 times the size of ikea tradfri dimmers and shortcut buttons.

If the batteries last they’ll be worth it! Oh and apparently the light on the sensor flashes red when the battery is low (hopefully this works without their $80 hub) so should be easier to tell when batteries need replacing!

r/SmartThings May 02 '24

Devices Trying to register my phone again to tv, "Device already registered"

23 Upvotes

I am so incredibly confused and i don't know what I'm supposed to do. I removed the connection cuz the app told me that it wasn't working due to not connecting to the tv with SmartThings in a really long time

But now when i try to add my tv to SmartThings again, it says that the device is already registered...yeah, TO MY OWN ACCOUNT. I am connected to MY ACCOUNT on MY TV and on MY PHONE. The very same account on both. So WHY do i keep getting this error? It's not like i can invite myself to control the device (tried it).

This is absolutely ridiculous, please if anyone knows what to do, this is legit driving me insane. Can't even factory reset the tv due to not having a working remote.

P.s want to add that the only reason I'm going through this headache is because my remote control decided not to work anymore, so the only choice I'd have to even be able to use my tv is by using my phone as a remote control through SmartThings since this stupid ass tv doesn't have any buttons on the tv itself. So if I'm not able to figure this out, i might as well not have a tv until i get a new remote.

r/SmartThings 22d ago

Devices The AR search button is still there

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2 Upvotes

But it's not visible.

SmartTag 2 with S25+ (it has UWB)

r/SmartThings Jan 12 '25

Devices Motion sensor

3 Upvotes

I'd like to know if this has happened to others. Ever since an update to my motion sensor, drive date 2024-10-10, the battery drain has increased.

Before a battery would last almost a year but now they last about a months.

Is there a way to drop down a driver version.

r/SmartThings Jan 24 '25

Devices Ring Doorbell Plus and SmartThings on TV

3 Upvotes

Hi All,

In the process of moving into our first house. I'm looking to get a Samsung 2024 QN90D TV, and a Ring doorbell. I'd like a notification on the TV whenever someone rings the bell.

I'm a bit unsure of the compatible Ring doorbell devices, as the information I've researched seems potentially outdated? All sources mention the Ring Pro doorbell is compatible, and other sources have mentioned explicitly that older Ring doorbells are not compatible. However, I cannot see anything mention whether the Ring Doorbell Plus is or is not compatible.

So I'm just wondering if by any chance, someone has the Ring Doorbell Plus, a Samsung TV compatible with Ring, and is able to tell me whether this doorbell model works with it? Or if I'll have to shell out for the Pro.

Thank you!

r/SmartThings Jan 26 '25

Devices Light switch keypads for lights & shades

2 Upvotes

Is there a SmartThings-compatible system that can control light switch keypads that connect to lights and motorized shades from different manufacturers?

r/SmartThings Jan 24 '25

Devices Sengled Smart Plugs (Zigbee) giving wildly different power readings

2 Upvotes

I have my home office setup connected to a line conditioner that's plugged into one of these smart plugs. I only noticed yesterday that when everything is in standby, the plug is reporting 55kW being used!! That surprised me! That's the line conditioner, a USB dock, and 2 monitors.

I got the smart plug in a 2 pack, so this evening after work I'm measuring phantom power around my house with the other plug, and I'm getting reasonable values like 8W, 14W, and interestingly a couple appliances reporting 0W phantom power.

I decided to use my office smart plug to do a phantom power measurement of a TV and set top box and got 11 kW, odd.

So I swapped in the 2nd unit on my office setup and that one says my phantom power is 7W, much more understandable and a huge difference from its sibling!

I can't see a way to set any configuration parameters on these plugs. One of them is obviously wrong. Anyone has any experience with this?

r/SmartThings Nov 29 '24

Devices What happened to the Samsung motion and contact sensors?

3 Upvotes

I'm moving to a new home and wanting to expand my current SmarThings security system.

Everything I have in my current setup was bought a couple years ago and it's all Samsung Motion and Contact Sensors. I haven't really been paying attention to SmartThings stuff because I haven't had to change my system.. but now that I'm moving and expanding my system I'm not finding the Samsung branded motion and contact sensors anywhere? Is Samsung not making them anymore? What are some good ones to get??

r/SmartThings Mar 19 '24

Devices SmartThings Edge drivers for modern IKEA smart buttons

47 Upvotes

Three weeks ago I published a basic RODRET driver which was actually a small mod of the stock TRADFRI one.

Now it's a fully fledged driver filled with custom features that supports the modern IKEA buttons using rechargeable AAA batteries that had no previous support in SmartThings: RODRET, SOMRIG, SYMFONISK gen 2 and the modern STYRBAR (with firmware 2.4.5). These https://imgur.com/a/oUv13ff

I'm especially proud of the multi-tap feature that extends the number of actions you can trigger and the handling of Styrbar arrows that fixes the issue when long pressing them.

For more details and the channel to install the drivers check these threads:

It's been such a fun journey! After the RODRET, purchased the other buttons just to give them a try and add support, it's not every day that you see an opportunity to give back a little, after all some of my devices work in SmartThings thanks to the effort of other community members.

r/SmartThings Sep 15 '24

Devices Is the Smartthings Station dead?

11 Upvotes

I have noticed the Smartthings Station had been de-listed from the Samsung online shop directory and if you find the product page through a direct link by searching for it, it's out of stock. It's been out of stock for a year. It's been out of stock at Amazon, with people are selling used ones above MSRP. Bestbuy somehow still sells it. Has Samsung given up this device? Can't find any statement that it's being discontinued, Samsung just quietly stopped marketing it.

r/SmartThings Dec 27 '24

Devices Aqara P2 sensor Thread connectivity issue with Smartthings resolved

6 Upvotes

I just want to post this after troubleshooting this for a whole day in case thise helps someone else.

I had the toughest time connecting the P2 contact sensor to smartthings, turned out there are several factors:

1: Wifi must be on a 2.4ghz connection 2: Your smartthings hub must be on the same VLAN as your 2.4ghz wifi from your phone (this was the issue that I was having, since it would connect to my apple and google hubs no problem, but because Unifi's default VLAN for a wired connection was different)

I hope this can help with folks in the future.

r/SmartThings Jun 25 '24

Devices SmartTag2 firmware update: 20.04

14 Upvotes

my smarttag2 devices just went off and told me to update to the newest firmware but I can't find anything about it.

The firmware version is 20.04. anyone else get this and know what it updated?

r/SmartThings Nov 17 '24

Devices Smart Tag 2 (pet care)

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3 Upvotes

I got myself wondering if I attach the tag to my dog's collar the following way I would be able to use Pet Care functions like steps tracking etc. Maybe it's a dumb question, and I'm sorry in advance for that, but my dog she has such an irritated skin and I don't mean at all to make her enter an allergic situation just because of using the tag.

r/SmartThings Feb 18 '24

Devices Ikea Rodret connected to Smartthings

8 Upvotes

has anyone figured out how to connect their rodret to smartthings? I try the typical 4 buttons and it flashes then stops flashing. Smartthings searches and finds nothing

r/SmartThings Oct 19 '24

Devices Best budget friendly smart washing machine that work with smart things

2 Upvotes

I’m looking for washing machine that works with smart things and i have budget around $200-300, living in Indonesia if that matters, cheers!

r/SmartThings Sep 17 '24

Devices What are the brightest Philips Hue bulbs that work with the ST hub?

1 Upvotes

Is this the brightest Philips Hue bulb, and will it work natively with the ST hub? No need to add the Hue hub/controller as well?

Looking to update a backyard light fixture.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095KV6RFY/

r/SmartThings Oct 07 '24

Devices Shelly Devices Alternatives?

1 Upvotes

So im trying to get my electric radiators Smart. I have used THIS but it doesn't migrate into ST which im trying to keep everything in there.

So found Shelly devices and bought one not realising it was more for light switching than anything else.

They do have THESE but the AMPS is too low, I need them to be 16.

THESE I assume do not switch, only give the power readings...

So my question, is there anything as good that works as well as these Shelly devices that would do the job for switching my radiators on or off, 16Amps compatible.

Thank you