Abstract
- Samsung’s newest Smartthings December 2024 replace features a new distant widget for simpler TV management.
- The widget is completely for Samsung TVs made in 2022 or later.
- Including the distant widget to your Android’s house display screen is easy however requires updating the app to the newest launch.
Samsung is making it simpler to stay in a related house with the newest Smartthings replace. It brings a brand new distant widget you may pop proper on to your
Android’
s house display screen, so that you by no means once more need to dig round within the app to alter channels.
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The December 2024 Smartthings replace is rolling out proper now to anybody with a 2022 or later Samsung TV (by way of Android Authority). The brand new widget embeds TV controls immediately in your telephone’s house display screen and consists of entry to energy, quantity, and enter choice.
Higher, quicker, stronger…simpler
The brand new distant widget makes life quite a bit simpler. Beforehand, controlling a Samsung TV from an Android gadget required launching the Smartthings app and navigating to the distant interface. Not precisely fast. Now the distant can stay on a house display screen.
There’s one caveat, nonetheless. The brand new distant widget is restricted to Samsung TVs and screens manufactured in 2022 or later. Samsung has not defined why older screens will not work with the widget, nevertheless it seemingly boils right down to {hardware} incompatibilities. Anybody with a pre-2022 display screen will nonetheless have to root round within the Smartthings app to entry the distant.
This is how one can add the widget to your house display screen
It is easy so as to add the widget to your house display screen, offered you have already arrange your Smartthings app to work together with your television or monitor. This is the way to do it:
- Lengthy-press on an empty area in your gadget’s house display screen.
- Faucet Widgets.
- Scroll to Smartthings Distant.
- Drag the distant widget to your house display screen.
- Choose the Samsung TV or monitor you wish to management.
Make sure that to first replace your Smartthings app from the Google Play Retailer or the Samsung Galaxy Retailer.
Samsung additionally added improved gadget automation and quicker gadget pairing with the brand new replace. There’s additionally an enhanced vitality monitoring characteristic for supported home equipment to assist customers higher handle their vitality utilization. These updates make Smartthings a extra highly effective hub for controlling all of your
Samsung units
. That is very true for tvs, because of the brand new distant widget.