Manage locations and rooms in the SmartThings app
When you have a lot of devices to look after, adding them to locations and rooms in the SmartThings app can make your life easier. You’ll be able to organize your devices and smart hubs based on where they are in your home. You can create multiple locations for your different hubs, and rooms are the best way to group devices in one area of your home to another, such as a Smart Bulb that will turn on the lights in your kitchen.
Note: The provided information refers to devices sold in Canada. The available screens and settings may differ for devices sold in other countries. You can visit the SmartThings website to check device compatibility and gather more information.
Think of locations as the main launch pads for your connected hubs and devices. You can create a location without adding any devices; however, adding your very first device to SmartThings will automatically create a location with the default name "Home."
Whenever you want to go to the location, tap the Home icon, and then tap your new location.
There are several options when editing your location, such as changing the Geolocation, changing the wallpaper, or renaming the location.
- Location name: Rename the location.
- Geolocation: Edit the location's real-world location.
- Location mode: Choose a mode for the location, including Away, Home, or Night.
- Linked places: Add places here so you can run routines whenever someone arrives or leaves.
- Members: View the location's members.
- Invite member: Invite someone to join the location. Tap + Invite member and then select how you'd like to invite them.
- Rooms: Add and manage the rooms in the location.
- Wallpaper: Change the background design for the location.
- Remove location: Delete scenes, automations, services, and devices associated with that location.
Create rooms to intuitively group your connected devices according to where they are located in your home (i.e. the Kitchen, Living Room, etc.). You can directly interact with your devices and manage multiple devices assigned to a room at any time.
There are several options available when editing a room, such as changing the wallpaper or giving the room a new name. You can also delete the room if you no longer need it.
- Room name: Rename the room.
- Wallpaper: Change the room's wallpaper.
- Remove room: Delete the room. The devices in the room will not be deleted and will remain in the location.
Note: Some rooms, such as Personal devices, cannot be deleted because they are added by default.
Note: You cannot move cloud- or hub-connected devices, or non-Samsung smart devices.
If you accidentally set up your Samsung smart device in the wrong SmartThings location, you can move the device to a new location without completely removing it from the app.
Note: You can also tap Add new room if you need to create a new room for the device.
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