Samsung unveils a new smart home hub with wireless charging built-in and quick access to routines - XDA Developers

Samsung's SmartThings Station delivers easiness of use, activating routines with the click of a button, and tin complaint your favourite devices wirelessly.

CES 2023 is successful afloat stride successful Las Vegas, and we're covering each the quality coming from the amusement level and property releases, which means plentifulness of caller announcements from immoderate of the biggest companies successful tech. Today, Samsung announced the SmartThings Station, a astute hub that besides doubles arsenic a wireless charging pad.

With the caller SmartThings Station, users volition person a carnal fastener that they tin usage to easy trigger routines successful their situation of choice. Best of all, the hub is casual to acceptable up, with a pop-up connection that volition amusement up connected a compatible Samsung Galaxy smartphone erstwhile archetypal powered on. Users volition adjacent person the enactment to acceptable up devices by scanning QR codes. Since the instrumentality doesn't person a display, a smartphone oregon tablet volition go the superior instrumentality users volition usage to acceptable up the caller astute hub device.

The SmartThings Station volition let for casual integration of each supported Samsung astute location products, including different third-party devices that enactment Matter. At the interaction of a button, you tin acceptable routines that tin powerfulness on, crook off, oregon adjacent devices to predetermined states with conscionable the interaction of a button. One of the examples that Samsung lists is pressing the fastener close earlier furniture to trigger turning disconnected the lights, closing the blinds, and lowering the somesthesia of your home.

The SmartThings Station isn't stuck to conscionable 1 regular and tin really store up to three, and tin beryllium activated with a short, long, and treble press. Of course, if you're distant from home, you tin ever unfastened the SmartThings app from your mobile telephone oregon tablet to power your routines from a distant location.

Furthermore, the hub has integrated SmartThings Find, allowing you to easy located your Galaxy devices astir the location with ease. As mentioned prior, the fastener besides acts arsenic a wireless charging pad, meaning you tin spot your compatible instrumentality and get up to 15W charging speeds. The SmartThings Station volition beryllium disposable successful the United States and Korea, being made disposable successful 2 colors, achromatic and white. While determination isn't a price, you tin expect to spot it 1 Samsung's website and section retailers sometime successful February successful the US.