Household ties: LG ThinQ lands on Homey

In a transfer that was at all times going to occur, Athom have introduced that LG ThinQ gadgets and home equipment now work with Homey.

The brand new LG ThinkQ app offers Homey Professional and Homey Cloud customers entry to all 30 sorts of LG ThinQ gadgets, together with the likes of washing machines, ovens, TVs, soundbars, fridges, robotic vacuum cleaners and an entire lot extra.

In case you didn’t know, LG ramped up its sensible dwelling efforts in July final 12 months by snapping up the Dutch model Athom, maker of the favored line of Homey sensible dwelling hubs.

The acquisition noticed LG take an 80% stake of Athom, with the following 20% because of change arms over the following three years.

On the time of the acquisition we have been advised that Athom would “proceed to function independently, sustaining its enterprise operations and branding,” which is an identical strategy to what Samsung took with SmartThings after snapping up the startup in 2014.

The transfer to include ThinQ gadgets into the Homey ecosystem is the primary actual signal of the boundaries blurring, though Homey already works with a large number of manufacturers and platforms – we’re advised that ThinQ is only one of greater than a thousand manufacturers the system is suitable with.

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But it surely’s not simply Homey that ThinQ is taking part in properly with.

Final month we reported that LG had thrown open the doorways to its sensible dwelling platform with the launch of its Software Programming Interface (API), making it simpler for builders and types to construct smarter, extra linked houses with LG home equipment.

It’s clear that LG isn’t now simply targeted on making sensible home equipment, however making certain they’ll play good with the remainder of your sensible dwelling setup regardless of which ecosystem you like.