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New industry-first functionality simplifies sensible house setup, boosts community efficiency, and allows larger interoperability throughout ecosystems

October 1, 2025 — Mountain View, CA — SmartThings, Samsung Electronics’s world related dwelling platform, as we speak introduced it is likely one of the first main sensible house ecosystems to help two-way Thread community unification, enabling customers to seamlessly be part of SmartThings Hubs to current Thread networks fashioned by different ecosystems and vice versa.

This replace helps customers construct and develop their sensible house with Thread units, profiting from Thread’s mesh networking for higher vary, responsiveness, and reliability. With Thread community unification, a brand new SmartThings Hub can both be part of an current Thread community proper after the preliminary setup or permit a Border Router (BR) from one other ecosystem to affix the Thread community already in use by SmartThings. As soon as unified, all Border Routers within the house work collectively seamlessly.

“SmartThings has all the time been about giving customers alternative and adaptability in how they construct their sensible house,” stated Mark Benson, Head of SmartThings US. “Thread community unification eliminates the limitations between ecosystems, so units and Border Routers can work collectively in a single highly effective mesh, delivering the efficiency and ease our customers have been asking for.”

Key Advantages

Higher Vary & Reliability — Unified BRs kind a single, self-healing mesh that covers extra of the house, maintains connections even when a tool goes offline, and routes knowledge alongside the quickest accessible path.
Simplified Setup — Becoming a member of the proper Thread community from the beginning prevents community fragmentation and avoids the complexity of migrating units later.
Versatile Community Administration — Customers can add or take away BRs from the unified community at any time, see all related BRs throughout ecosystems, and preserve related units even when a BR leaves a community.

How It Works

A brand new “Handle Thread Community” menu within the SmartThings Hub interface guides customers by means of the unification course of:

Becoming a member of a SmartThings hub to an Present Thread Community:
- Choose “Be part of one other community” within the SmartThings app.
  Be part of a selected community by way of saved Thread credentials within the cellular OS credential locker, or by scanning a QR code/getting into a one-time passcode (OTP) from a third-party app with a appropriate Thread 1.4 Border Router within the sharing mode.
- The SmartThings hub securely retrieves credentials and joins the goal community in minutes.
Including a Third-Get together Border Router to a SmartThings Hub’s Thread Community:
- Choose “Share SmartThings community” within the SmartThings app.
- Provoke the Thread 1.4 credential sharing, which generates a QR code and a one-time passcode (OTP).
- Scan the QR code or enter the OTP within the third-party app to affix its Border Router to the SmartThings Thread community.

Whereas Thread Community Unification delivers a big leap in simplicity and efficiency, realizing the complete advantages of Thread 1.4 credential sharing is determined by having appropriate Thread 1.4 BRs throughout ecosystems. At launch in Q3 2025, the function will likely be accessible on choose SmartThings hubs (together with the Aeotec Sensible House Hub and the Aeotec Sensible House Hub 2), with extra hubs to observe. Customers will want the most recent 0.58.x hub firmware and iOS 1.7.37.x and Android OS 1.8.37.x cellular app from SmartThings. Third-party ecosystems might launch Thread 1.4 compatibility updates to their Border Routers on their very own timelines.

For extra details about Thread Community Unification and the most recent SmartThings updates, go to https://www.samsung.com/smartthings.

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