[image] A New Enhanced SmartThings API Experience - SmartThings Blog Upcoming Changes to the SmartThings API Over the last several years, the SmartThings platform has grown into one of the most robust orchestration layers in the smart home industry, with over 460M+ registered users and…

I can confirm that we were also notified by Samsung about the upcoming changes. As I’ve mentioned to many other partners before, our position hasn’t changed: we simply don’t pay for API access. Our goal at Homey is to make the smart home better together, and we don’t believe charging each other fee…

I think it might be possible to build an edge driver that runs on the SmartThings hub, and can sync virtual devices from Homey to SmartThings. Then, you can use routines to link them to a “real” device to control it in Homey. I will buy the hub, i’ll see if it’s possible

[image] Doekse: and we don’t believe charging each other fees to make integrations work is the right foundation for a partnership But in that case, why do you charge brands €100 to publish an official app?

Where does it say that we charge our partners €100 to publish their app? If you’re referring to the Verified Developer License, that’s not the case. Partners who are part of the Works with Homey program receive the license free of charge. The €100 fee only applies to developers who are not part of …

oooooo a double standard Not part of our exclusive club, sorry that’s 100 euros please.

It’s worth mentioning that any company can become a Works with Homey partner. It’s not an exclusive club with strict entry requirements like you’re making it out to be :wink: The entire purpose of the Works with Homey program is to ensure that partner products work reliably with our platform, and w…

This is the email they sent to devs: [image] For now I found a solution with Google Home and virtual devices for my Samsung Smart Monitors, which will stay available. It also sounds AI-written, especially with the em dashes (—).

Got this mail today what does this mean for the official homey app @Doekse As the SmartThings platform expands to support over 460 million registered users, our API infrastructure requires an evolution. Starting in October 2026, we are transitioning the SmartThings API from a free model to structur…

Someone using a competing home automation platform is working on a fully local implementation for Samsung devices: GitHub - mbillow/localthings: Local-control Home Assistant component that authenticates to newer-firmware Samsung devices and talks over CoAP-DTLS. · GitHub

Until someone at Samsung notices it and removes this undocumented API via OTA, since this is probably unintentionally left in so it would be pretty easy to remove without any ordinary user noticing You should use Google Home, they can’t simply kill that without a lot of backlash from users. Example…

SmartThings charging €5/month for API

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SmartThings charging €5/month for API

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