how smart has your home gone?

Can the Kasa plugs send notifications to Google assistant to have them read aloud, or is it just on your phone?

Regardless of the above, could I set different rules, for example, if power draw drops to under 100w but over 10w, turn plug off if the state doesn't change in 30 minutes time?

And another one that if the power draw is under 5w to send me a notification?
 
Finally, finished fitting the house out with Philip Hue over Christmas. I picked up a Hue Play for the TV yesterday. I am just waiting on the Smart Sync Box so i can work with with Sky Q etc. However, it appears to work pretty well.

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Now that we know that samsung is getting out of the smart home hardware.
And will be dropping the V1\V2 boxs and sensors later this year.

Will you move over to Aeotec(smartthings software) or some other hub?

https://community.smartthings.com/t/smartthings-hardware-being-licensed-to-aeotec/207707/10
https://community.smartthings.com/t/is-smartthings-discontinuing-the-hub-july-2019/200084

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/comments/j6yiin/smartthings_taken_over_by_aeotec/

I have already moved to Hubitat, so this won't affect me at all.
 
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As far as I know they're getting out of selling new hardware, not that they're going to stop anything working.

The platform itself continues unchanged and all their stuff is still full of it.
 
matt100 said:
As far as I know they're getting out of selling new hardware, not that they're going to stop anything working.

The platform itself continues unchanged and all their stuff is still full of it.
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I don't know anything about Aeotec and where they want to go or how they are going to do it.

If you read the link you would see a company has already pulled out using smartthings.
You will have to buy Aeotec from now on. Samsung won't make any sensors(they was crap anyway)
And smartthings still won't turn on the Bluetooth that's inside the hub.

V1\V2 hubs are ending life. Not that they have to, but because!

With the Hubitat. I can use any Zigbee or Z-wave device.
 
I foresee this being a massive issue with smart home tech.

It's a growing area, so i'm surprised a big player wants to get out of it already. I don't actually own anything from Samsung, so i can't comment on the reliability, and how good any of the components are.

But it really goes to show the nightmare of investing in one particular brand, to then find a few years down the line they decide to pull the plug on it. Take Wink for example, that upset a lot of people who'd purchased the device to then be told you've now got to pay a subscription fee to carry on using it.

If i'm ever giving my opinion, then i tell people to take an open source approach like Home Assistant. Home Assistant will live on for as long as there is a community that continues to develop and support it. It takes the worry away about being held hostage with your smart devices when a manufacturer changes their tune with the service they provide.
 
deuse said:
I don't know anything about Aeotec and where they want to go or how they are going to do it.

If you read the link you would see a company has already pulled out using smartthings.
You will have to buy Aeotec from now on. Samsung won't make any sensors(they was crap anyway)
And smartthings still won't turn on the Bluetooth that's inside the hub.

V1\V2 hubs are ending life. Not that they have to, but because!

With the Hubitat. I can use any Zigbee or Z-wave device.
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End of life doesn't mean end of functioning, it means they're no longer being sold or I guess supported. The V2 hub has been EOL for ages anyway.

AFAIK there was the hub and maybe 5 different sensors that were direct smartthings hardware. The ecosystem itself is far wider and designed to be as open and compatible as possible (which I think probably made it hard to sell as a platform hence the end of specific hardware sales) but it lives on in literally everything they make.

Smartthings as a platform isn't going anywhere.
 
matt100 said:
End of life doesn't mean end of functioning, it means they're no longer being sold or I guess supported. The V2 hub has been EOL for ages anyway.

AFAIK there was the hub and maybe 5 different sensors that were direct smartthings hardware. The ecosystem itself is far wider and designed to be as open and compatible as possible (which I think probably made it hard to sell as a platform hence the end of specific hardware sales) but it lives on in literally everything they make.

Smartthings as a platform isn't going anywhere.
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I can tell you don't know samsung :)

Hey deuse...buy our smartthings hub it has zigbee and z-wave and Bluetooth.
Deuse buys the V2 hub...
Hey Deuse, We're not turrning on the Bluetooth part of the hub. EVER

Hey Deuse..you can now use your 78" samsung TV with smartthings :)
Deuse No I can't..what's going on?
Hey deuse...forget about the TV thing...we back tracked again.
Deuse sends his TV back to J Lewis for a refund.

Hey Deuse..got a Nv shield? you can now buy our smartthings dongle for it :)
I can't buy one here in the UK!!!!

Hey Deuse..forget about the dongle....we dropped that as well.

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
 
There's no need to be patronising, especially when you're so wrong it's not even funny on me "knowing" samsung.

Anyway, what you're describing there is bad for sure, I'm well aware of all of that but there are differences between unfulfilled promises and services that exist and are running.
 
Started pricing up the bits I need/want for my property. I am thinking to go Nest, looking at adding the Hello, Nest Thermostat and a couple cameras for CCTV. I am aware the cameras aren't necessairly the best in the world and are quite expensive but the cost of 'unity' between it all is very tempting. Nest Hello v Ring and Nest Thermostat v Hive seems much of a muchness so to keep it all on one system it might be worth saving the headache.
 
matt100 said:
There's no need to be patronising, especially when you're so wrong it's not even funny on me "knowing" samsung.

Anyway, what you're describing there is bad for sure, I'm well aware of all of that but there are differences between unfulfilled promises and services that exist and are running.
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What I said happened to me and 1,0000s of others.
If you read the ST forum, you will see that people are leaving and moving to habitat.

I don't know if you use the main part of smartthings "IDE". Some of them are leaving which is very bad.
 
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Started pricing up the bits I need/want for my property. I am thinking to go Nest, looking at adding the Hello, Nest Thermostat and a couple cameras for CCTV. I am aware the cameras aren't necessairly the best in the world and are quite expensive but the cost of 'unity' between it all is very tempting. Nest Hello v Ring and Nest Thermostat v Hive seems much of a muchness so to keep it all on one system it might be worth saving the headache.
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This is why some people pick zigbee or a z-wave devices and hub.
You put them all under one roof.
 
deuse said:
What I said happened to me and 1,0000s of others.
If you read the ST forum, you will see that people are leaving and moving to habitat.

I don't know if you use the main part of smartthings "IDE". Some of them are leaving which is very bad.
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And?

For what it's worth I'm no mega smartthings fan but I have been closely involved with it, the bit you're describing is small as a proportion of the overall user base.

Either way the only bit of what you're saying that I'm disputing is that the hubs etc are going to stop working, because they're not. Also the inference that smartthings as a platform is going anywhere, because similarly it's not.

They've gotten out of the dedicated hardware game thats all and even that's been sold to someone it's not being shuttered.
 
matt100 said:
And?

For what it's worth I'm no mega smartthings fan but I have been closely involved with it, the bit you're describing is small as a proportion of the overall user base.

Either way the only bit of what you're saying that I'm disputing is that the hubs etc are going to stop working, because they're not. Also the inference that smartthings as a platform is going anywhere, because similarly it's not.

They've gotten out of the dedicated hardware game thats all and even that's been sold to someone it's not being shuttered.
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I'll leave you to it :)
 
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Ahhh - seems pretty pointless then!
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Yes and no, the idea really is for those who already have Hue bulbs, if someone switches off the light, then this can still provide power to the bulbs (is my understanding).

There are much cheaper and better methods of doing this though, so i can't imagine they'll sell many units.
 
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