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 kinds of LG ThinQ gadgets, together with the likes of washing machines, ovens, TVs, soundbars, fridges, robotic vacuum cleaners and a complete lot extra.
In case you didn’t know, LG ramped up its good residence efforts in July final 12 months by snapping up the Dutch model Athom, maker of the favored line of Homey good residence hubs.
The acquisition noticed LG take an 80% stake of Athom, with the subsequent 20% because of change palms over the subsequent three years.
On the time of the acquisition we had been instructed that Athom would “proceed to function independently, sustaining its enterprise operations and branding,” which is the same method 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 mess of manufacturers and platforms – we’re instructed that ThinQ is only one of greater than a thousand manufacturers the system is appropriate with.
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 good residence platform with the launch of its Software Programming Interface (API), making it simpler for builders and types to construct smarter, extra linked properties with LG home equipment.
It’s clear that LG isn’t now simply centered on making good home equipment, however making certain they’ll play good with the remainder of your good residence setup regardless of which ecosystem you like.