{"id":519448,"date":"2026-06-26T12:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/519448\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T12:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T12:24:08","slug":"samsung-will-soon-start-charging-to-access-its-smart-home-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/519448\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung will soon start charging to access its smart home API"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">From October this year <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.smartthings.com\/smartthings-updates\/a-new-enhanced-smartthings-api-experience\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samsung will roll out<\/a> a variety of new paid tiers for access to its SmartThings API, including a $4.99 monthly plan for \u201cnon-commercial, individual developers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">It won\u2019t just be developers that pay the price though. Some more advanced smart home users are likely to fall afoul of the rule change if they directly access the SmartThings API for more flexible smart home controls, or use third-party tools that do the same. \u201cUse of the Home Assistant integration will be affected by their changes and will fall under their new \u2018personal plans,\u2019\u201d wrote Paulus Schoutsen, founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/24135207\/home-assistant-announces-open-home-foundation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">open-source smart home platform Home Assistant<\/a>, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/newsletter.openhomefoundation.org\/breaking-free-from-the-disposable-smart-home\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Samsung says the new pricing will allow it to \u201cinvest heavily in the enterprise-grade features our partners and users have been asking for,\u201d including stability improvements, new integrations, and a refresh of its Developer Center hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From October this year Samsung will roll out a variety of new paid tiers for access to its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,43,573,2958,216,80],"class_list":["post-519448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-samsung","tag-smart-home","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}