Replaces Samsung SmartThings

European alternatives to Samsung SmartThings

Multi protocol smart home hubs from Europe

Browse the category: Home automation platforms

Samsung SmartThings is a smart home platform that connects devices from many manufacturers, through a hub or through compatible Samsung appliances and televisions. It handles scenes, schedules and sensor triggered automations. Its appeal has always been breadth: support for several wireless protocols means hardware from different brands can live in one system.

The hub decides whether your home keeps working when a cloud service changes, is discontinued or simply cannot be reached. Buyers who want automation that survives all three, under European rules, have somewhere to go. A European alternative to Samsung SmartThings fills the same multi protocol role. Homey and Home Assistant connect devices across brands, while Loxone and Homematic IP are complete systems that include their own hardware.

European options 6

Our pick

Homey

Smart home platform from the Netherlands

Homey is a smart home platform from Athom B.V. in Enschede, the Netherlands, founded in 2014. Homey Pro is a local hub that speaks Zigbee, Z-Wave, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Thread and Matter, infrared and 433 MHz, with thousands of community apps for individual brands; Homey Cloud is the variant that works without a hub. Automations are built visually with Flows and Advanced Flows, and Insights charts energy use.

Netherlands

FIBARO

Z-Wave smart home hardware from Poland

Poland

Loxone

Wired building automation from Austria

Austria

Somfy TaHoma

Smart home hub for shutters and blinds from France

France

Homematic IP

Smart home system from Germany

GermanyFree plan

Self-hosted and open source

Open source projects you can run yourself. Not necessarily made in Europe, but nobody else holds your data.

Home Assistant

Open source home automation you run yourself

Open sourceOpen source

Questions

Do these support several wireless protocols?

Homey and Home Assistant are both built to bridge devices using different radio standards, which is what makes a mixed setup workable. Check the exact protocol support for the devices already in your house.

Which option suits a whole house project?

Loxone is aimed at planned installations covering lighting, heating, shading and more, often through an installer. Somfy TaHoma is another option if blinds and shading are a large part of the job.

What happens if the vendor's cloud goes away?

Platforms that run automations locally are far less exposed to that, which is a point in favour of Home Assistant and Homey. Ask any supplier what continues to work when their service is unavailable.