Samsung launches the SmartThings app for Windows 10: Samsung's connected home can now be controlled from your PC

Samsung follows in the footsteps of other operating systems and brings its application to Windows 10. Another more symptom of the good relationship between both companies which has meant that Samsung adopts Drive as cloud storage on its phones or that these are the ones selected with preference in the Your Phone application.

Controlled home control from PC

The truth is that the launch of the SmartThings application within the Windows 10 ecosystem is a step forward that favors the integration of the connected home, whose elements we can now control from the tablet or the PC if we do not want to use the mobile.

The application is finally available in the Microsoft Store and in it we can access any compatible device, be it a Smart TV with Tizen, as well as other appliances and appliances integrated into SmartThings.

From the panel offered by the PC or tablet screen you can control all those devices that are registered on the server under our accountWe can interact with them and perform the actions corresponding to each of them.Likewise, SmartThings allows you to create scenes in which different devices participate.

The status of the devices can be monitored and controlled remotely even when we are far from home. We will also receive on the computer any type of notification related to the connected device and thus a camera can notify us in case of intruders or the doorbell can send an alert if someone knocks on the door to give just two examples.

In addition, since the PC or tablet is a key element to control everything we have connected at home, the arrival of SmartThings is a step that seems logical.