Family ties: LG ThinQ lands on Homey

In a transfer that was all the time going to occur, Athom have introduced that LG ThinQ units and home equipment now work with Homey.

The brand new LG ThinkQ app provides Homey Professional and Homey Cloud customers entry to all 30 varieties of LG ThinQ units, 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 house efforts in July final yr by snapping up the Dutch model Athom, maker of the favored line of Homey sensible house hubs.

The acquisition noticed LG take an 80% stake of Athom, with the subsequent 20% resulting from change palms over the subsequent three years.

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

The transfer to include ThinQ units 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.

Nevertheless it’s not simply Homey that ThinQ is enjoying properly with.

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

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

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