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Samsung wants to make the smart home smarter \u2014 if your home\u2019s a Samsung home, that is.<\/p>\n

During its CES 2024 keynote in Las Vegas tonight, the company announced a range of additions to \u2014 and capabilities for \u2014 its SmartThings home automation platform. A new dashboard screen, Now Plus, is headed to select Samsung TVs, programmed to turn on as you approach to display info about smart home devices and stats like the current indoor temperature. Accompanying it is a new \u201cquick panel\u201d with access to shortcuts for controlling connected devices, as well as functions like finding misplaced smartphones and other mobile gadgets.<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere, Samsung launched a new \u201cmap view\u201d for SmartThings similar to Amazon\u2019s recently launched Map View<\/a>. Samsung\u2019s take shows an interactive map of your home complete with the location of any smart home devices (e.g. washing machines, refrigerators and so on) within. Maps can be created manually or automatically with the help of a photo of an existing floor plan or with a lidar-enabled Samsung device, like the company\u2019s forthcoming Ballie<\/a> robot or new JetBot robot vacuum.<\/p>\n

In a cute (or creepy, depending on your point of view) touch, the new SmartThings maps show \u201cAI characters\u201d that stand in for family members and pets inside the home. The animated avatars \u201crespond\u201d to real-time conditions, for example appearing to sweat if the house gets too warm.<\/p>\n

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Maps have to be generated using the SmartThings app on a smartphone or tablet. But once that\u2019s done, they\u2019ll display on supported Samsung TVs, the screen of the Samsung Family Hub smart fridge and Samsung\u2019s M8 monitors.<\/p>\n

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Samsung wants to make the smart home smarter \u2014 if your home\u2019s a Samsung home, that is. During its CES 2024 keynote in Las Vegas tonight, the company announced a range of additions to \u2014 and capabilities for \u2014 its SmartThings home automation platform. A new dashboard screen, Now Plus, is headed to select Samsung […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}