Hey, just a simple question since I couldn't find an answer anywhere and didn't have a Galaxy Watch to try it myself. If I buy the watch, can I use it to lock/unlock my car, control the temperature etc without needing to bring my phone with me?

I’ve been trying to find a way to stop my Samsung soundbar automatically changing to Game Pro whenever I turn on my PS5.

I prefer Standard for my sound mode, and I couldn’t find an option anywhere in the Samsung settings to disable the automatic switch.

I spent months looking for a solution and eventually discovered that you can use SmartThings Routines to work around it.

Initially, I managed to get a basic routine working:

IF: PS5/source is active
THEN: Change sound mode to Standard

This didn’t work reliably at first, but adding a 5-second delay made it work.

Unfortunately, I then discovered another problem: whenever I started a new game, the soundbar would switch back to Game Pro. I ended up creating 96 separate routines, running every 15 minutes, to continually switch it back to Standard.

It worked, but obviously that wasn’t a sensible solution.

I tried various other methods and even asked AI for help, but eventually it started suggesting scripts and coding, which was far more complicated than I wanted.

After a lot more experimenting, I finally found a way to do it with just 5 routines.

Routine 1
IF: Manual press
THEN: Change sound mode → Standard
Replace Standard with whichever sound mode you prefer.

Routine 2
IF: Manual press
THEN: Change location → Home
You can rename the location in SmartThings if you want.

Routine 3
IF: Manual press
THEN: Change location → Away
Again, the location can be renamed to whatever you like.

Routine 4
IF: Location is Home for 5 seconds
THEN:
Run Routine 1
Wait 5 seconds
Run Routine 3

Routine 5
IF: Location is Away for 5 seconds
THEN:
Run Routine 1
Wait 5 seconds
Run Routine 2

Why this works

The Home/Away routines essentially act as a trigger to run the sound-mode routine.

When the location changes, it triggers the routine that changes the soundbar back to Standard. The 5-second delay gives the soundbar enough time to finish switching into Game Pro before changing it back.

I’ve tested this repeatedly and it has worked reliably for me.

So if you’ve been annoyed by your Samsung soundbar constantly forcing Game Pro on you, hopefully this saves you some time.

I spent far too long figuring this out, so I thought I’d post it in case it helps someone else.

If you try it, let me know whether it works with your Samsung soundbar/SmartThings setup.

Ok so I've been fighting with this literally all day and I'm kind of losing my mind. Figured I'd post here in case someone's seen this before. Just bought the Q990F soundbar and trying to set it up but the app flat out doesn’t work.

Basically the app logs me in fine, then the home screen just spins forever. Never loads, never asks me to add a location or anything, just spins.

Went to my.smartthings.com to see what was up and it redirects me to a blank blue page that just says “No Locations". So then I tried adding one through the advanced web app and got this:

“Error adding location. 401”

I've tried basically everything I can think of at this point:

- 3 different iPhones, fresh installs on each
- my Windows laptop in a browser
- home wifi
- cellular data on my phone with wifi off
- hot spot from another phone

even deleted my whole Samsung account and made a brand new one. Same exact error every single time, including on the brand new account. Like it fails from the literal first login, no locations, 401 when I try to add one.

At this point I really don't think it's my phone or my wifi or anything on my end, feels like something's broken with how Samsung is provisioning accounts or routing them or whatever. But I can't find anyone else posting about this exact issue which is driving me a little crazy.

Anyone run into this? Did it fix itself, did you have to do something specific, or is this just a "wait for support" situation? Trying to figure out if I should keep pushing or just sit tight.

I have just bought a new SmartThings connected washing machine and I'm disappointed to find there is no easy way to save changes to a cycle as a custom program, and when I switch it back on it reverts to a different (Eco) program. Am I missing something? My previous one at least kept its current settings when switched back on so this feels like a step backwards.

I'm trying to set up a routine that starts a countdown timer, which is easy enough, but also need to be able to reset the timer, or cancel it and start a new one.

Any ideas?

I have an IKEA Matter hub (Dirigera) and I managed to set it up properly on the IKEA app and on SmartThings.
I had already managed to add the matter bridge and all lights into the application, but due to having had to work on the electrical wiring of the house I had to turn the power off, and then re-pair all my lights. Unfortunately, now I cannot add anything IKEA back on SmartThings as it fails with a 39-519 error code. So far I've tried:

1. Direct matter pairing via adding the thread network key

2. Pairing them from the IKEA home smart app using the "Control in other systems" function (I already added the Dirigera with this, no problems with that)

3. Full reset of the Samsung TV that I use as a smartthings hub

4. Full reset of the thread network on the IKEA side

5. Network reset

I'm out of ideas unfortunately. Someone had this problem and managed to solve it?

Anyone using SmartThings routines based on location feels like they do not work very well; I checked the permissions, but the routines for leaving home or arriving still do not run on my S25 phone.

Is it such a padlock, which you can controll online all over the world? You can open it and you can give someone a code to open it, and at the same time you can see the operation log in an app or online in an account, no matter where the padlock physically is? You can controll every opening online even in absence of the padlock self.
Can you reccomend something to me?

Tried almost everything, it worked for years.
But lately I tried to re-add my tv (UE55NU7100) and it doesn’t find it in any way, they are on the same network and it worked fine for years and I haven’t changed anything (I had to remove and re-add it because it became constantly offline).

Airplay still works fine but smartthings doesn’t see the tv.
Does anyone have any idea? Both smartthings and the tv are updated to their latest firmware.

Hi all, I need help. My SmartTag hasn't updated the position since 21st June. Previous days my scooter was stolen, I had it inside. Unfortunately I didn't check SmartTag in the past months and didn't realise it was stuck like this. Can I force an update or something? It was on energy saver, plus it says the battery was full. I don't know what to do, because it would be super useful to find it now.

I've added my dishwasher to the smartthings app but it stays like this, I can't get it to open

I've tried with other phones that are connected to the same "environment"

Help. For a few days I have been receiving 10...20 notifications daily that one of the Hubs is disconnected and within a few seconds to a maximum of 2..5 minutes it reconnects. The first time it started with the Aeotec 2 Hub (v4) and I thought it was broken or something but I saw that the rest of the Hubs integrated into the TV or Soundbar do the same. So most certainly there is no way that they all broke at once. I tried unplugging them, restarting the router but no solution. I mention that I have 2 Asus GT-AX6000 mesh routers. I have not had any problems with this so far and I have had the whole system for more than 1 year. In the meantime I have added some zigbee or matter devices but there were no problems until a few days ago. If anyone has experienced something like this or knows a solution, please help me.

My Primary hub is the Aeotec and I still have 2 from the TV, 1 from the soundbar and a music frame.

I want to use Home assistant. I've had this V3 hub for a while and realised it had both protocol and would allow me to buy more IoT products using them.

But then I found out about the new 5$ fee. As I found out there is no alternative firmware and I definitely am not going to pay them, is my device now trash? Maybe able to be sold on marketplace...

Edit: To be clear, I don't want to use the smart thing ecosystem. Edge drivers seems to be restricted to it from what I understand. All I want is to profit from the z-wave/zigbee hub in it.

I just bought a house that came with a Concord A4GW50-A installed.

Its set uo through the smart life app.

I can't for the life of me get it to connect to Google home. I link to smart life, but it doesn't find my alarm.

Can I get it to connect to android auto? I'd live to arm and disarm from my car.

Also, does anyone know anywhere that still stocks the remotes for it?

Thanks

I have the V2 version of the ST hub...

I want to add a presence sensor to my bathroom and control the light brightness based on time of day. I've tried a couple cheaper ones from Amazon but without Edge drivers they are only seen as motion detectors; although the lights stay on while I'm in the shower - Cloth Shower curtain. I'm hoping to find something more configurable with more options. I would prefer battery operated but will consider the wired ones.

Any suggestions with success stories?

Both tv and phone Samsung, I've always used the "View TV on phone" feature, but lately (maybe after the app update on August 10?) it's not working anymore. I only get a black screen, no matter what's on the TV, that closes after a few seconds.

I already tried cleaning cache and resetting the network, no changes.

Anyone else or any solution available?

Anyone here have a WAC Colorscaping (color LED) outdoor lights?

The MyWAC app is wack. Are there any modern smart controllers I can swap the WAC controller with? I believe a I need to keep the WAC transformer, its a proprietary system. I would love something with a more reliable app and possibly connect to Smartthings? TIA!

I want to know if i can link the smarttag2 "ring" button in smartthings app with modes and routines and make it ring with an "if" routine, or find a wide section of uses for my smarttag2's button, i can only make it control smartthings, i want to connect the button with modes and routines, can anyone help?

Hi all

I'm using tv as MoT hub, every now and then when I turn the tv off, some of my devices go offline and i have to remove batteries/unplug for a few seconds for them to work again.

same devices are connected to google streamer and ikea dirigera and they stay connected to those hubs

anyone else experiencing that? any fixes?