# SHAI — Samsung SmartThings

> Samsung's smart-home cloud and hub. Its public REST API lists devices, reads state, sends commands and runs scenes, authorized with a personal access token the user issues on their own Samsung account with the scopes they choose. A PAT issued since 30 December 2024 expires after 24 hours, and free API access ends in October 2026 (a US$4.99/month personal plan is announced).

Canonical page: /integrations/samsung-smartthings

## How SHAI connects to it
SHAI talks to it directly, with the key you paste. It is one of the tools SHAI has written up — what it costs, why it matters, what breaks without it — as `smartthings` in the tool guide.

## What it needs
a key you paste, in Setup or on /connections.

## Where that was read
docs/tools/tools.json (smartthings), verified 2026-09-16.

Connect it: /connections?tool=samsung-smartthings