SmartThings

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2021–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with SmartThings, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

Asks for microphone access every time, then remote stops working after about 3 minutes2025-03-30
Oven clock fails to update at daylight saving time; user must toggle sync off and on2023-09-27
Setting up basic smart home automations is painful and the app glitches2022-02-17
App needs restart and long waits to connect before a button works2021-08-06