Samsung Fridge Freezers With SmartThings

Samsung's Family Hub fridge comes with a 389-litre fridge and the freezer, which is 225 litres. It's a big American-style model that has high-quality temperature control and an impressive range of smart features.

It's customizable with removable panels, so you can design one that perfectly matches your collection of tie dye Crocs and matte black Rick Owens clothing.

All-Round Cooling

Separate cooling circuits in refrigerators with All Round Cooing help keep your food fresher. Conventional fridges have one evaporator that cools both the freezer as well as the refrigerator compartment. This can lead to your food getting dry because the low-humidity air that is pumped into your refrigerator is pumped into. This can cause them to taste bland and unpleasant.

Each shelf is equipped with multiple vents to circulate cool air. This ensures a constant temperature even if you open and shut the refrigerator door.

Optimal Fresh zone keeps seafood and meats fresher for two times longer than in conventional refrigerators without freezing. This feature is a game-changer for those who love cooking but isn't a fan of thawing frozen meats or fish.

All Round Cooling employs the cooling plate made of metal at the back of the fridge to retain the cold air and prevent it from getting lost when you open the door of the fridge. It also helps to reduce the need for power-defrosting which saves time and money.

The ice dispenser on Samsung refrigerators is among the best we've ever tested. Its patent-pending Twist Ice Maker dispenses large cubes with just a twist, and it can be stored in the drawer below when not in use. This gives you more shelf space and makes it easier to locate your most loved drinks and snacks.

You can choose which way your freezer and fridge open by using reversible Doors. You can easily integrate your fridge into your kitchen layout while maintaining it neat and clean.

Samsung's Family Hub is the central control for your SmartThings connected home through large touchscreens on your refrigerator. It will show you a live feed of your smart doorbell. It can also order groceries with an automated inventory system or suggest recipes based on what's available in the shelves.

The flex drawers on the bottom of Samsung fridges are a smart storage solution that makes it easier to store taller items such as canned drinks and trays of pizza. They can be turned over when not in use and folded flat to save space. This is an excellent option for those who like to cook and bake and have a limited fridge storage space.

FlexZone

The Samsung FlexZone side-by-side fridge freezer comes with a unique three-zone design that lets you add an extra refrigerator compartment or freezer drawer to your set up. This allows you to modify your fridge freezer to best meet your storage and needs requirements. The FlexZone module allows you to upgrade your fridge to a bigger or smaller size by incorporating an additional FlexZone.

The fridge has an elegant design that will fit in with any kitchen design. The stainless steel finish is elegant and sturdy. It also comes with an anti-fingerprint finish that keeps the surface looking fresh and new. The refrigerator also comes with an extra water and ice dispenser for additional convenience.

This fridge has the FlexZone bottom-right compartment that can be converted from freezer to refrigerator. This gives you extra space to store items in the freezer, such as ice cream bags of frozen veggies and even fish or meat. It was a great performer in our tests too, but the lack of a voice control feature and SmartThings integration on the 21.5-inch touchscreen was an opportunity missed.

The remainder of the fridge has plenty of room for food storage, with two crisper trays as well as the middle FlexZone drawer, which can be customized. The drawer lets you select among five different settings based on the needs of your fridge freezer compartment. There are five options: the freezer setting, a soft freeze setting for wine trays, or deli trays for example, a meat setting, a fish setting and a beverage set-up to store drinks, snacks and other items you frequently use.

This Samsung FlexZone side by side refrigerator is ideal for families that want to have a refrigerator and a freezer in one. It's smaller than top-of-the-line French door models, but it has plenty of useful features and is an excellent option for those with little space in their kitchens.

The Samsung Fridge Freezer is also an extremely energy efficient fridge due to its digital inverter technology. This technology regulates the temperature inside the fridge, so it doesn't change too much and keeps your food fresher for longer. Its energy efficiency has earned it the ENERGY STAR Certification.

SmartThings

SmartThings isn't as popular a platform that Alexa and Google Assistant are but it does come with many smart devices that you can add. It's also baked into Samsung smartphones TVs, tablets and tablets - as well as some fridges. That may be enough to warrant it for some, especially when you own a variety of Samsung products.

The SmartThings app is pretty elegant and well-rounded It comes with a 'if you do x, then y' automation feature that works surprisingly well. You can set things up like an alarm going off when sensors for water leaks detect a flood, or turning on a light when your phone detects that you're at home. It can also control your fridge when connected to a smart socket however, we've had mixed results with this.

SmartThings requires a hub which is not cheap. Samsung has a number of options that include the SmartThings Station that you can attach to an existing router and use it as an nightlight. There's also a cheaper SmartThings Hub Dongle that can support Z-Wave and Zigbee and Thread, with Thread support in the near future.

Once you have your smart fridge with a hub, smartphone and smart fridge it's easy to use. SmartThings lets you control your refrigerator from any location. Notifications are sent to your smartphone when the fridge is closed or opened. You can create schedules, alter the temperature and set reminders.

SmartThings is an early member of the Home Connectivity Alliance, which is trying to make major home appliances from a range of manufacturers interoperable. In the future you could control your Samsung washer/dryer, Electrolux oven, and LG TV from the same app.

While it's not as widely used as Alexa and Google Assistant, SmartThings does have some big names on its list, including Arlo, Nest, Belkin and Lifx. It's also compatible with Matter, a protocol that allows accessories to connect regardless of brand. For the majority of people however, combining Alexa and Google Assistant voice controls is probably the best bet.

Family Hub

This refrigerator freezer is the most modern that you can buy. It has a 21-inch touchscreen integrated into the door, and comes with a variety of clever features. Bixby, Samsung's voice-activated assistant that allows users to access entertainment apps, make notes for your family (think of it as a huge digital version of the notepad stuck to the refrigerator), check weather reports and a lot more.

The touchscreen allows you to manage recipes and food. You can add ingredients directly through an app and check out the contents of your fridge with internal cameras. You can also make a shopping list on the go and monitor food items to determine when they'll expire. You can also use an app for recipe reading to read the recipe while you cook.

This is the second generation of Family Hub fridges and Samsung claims that it's spent the past year adjusting them to the needs of customer feedback. One of the major changes is that you can now create different profiles for each household member so they can customize the apps and information they have access to. It's not quite as effective as having Alexa integration built into your fridge but it's an improvement over last year's model.

Family Hub is not only an application for managing groceries and entertainment, but it also controls Samsung's SmartThings platform. It can be used to control Matter-compatible devices like lights and plugs as well as locks.

Samsung's fridge has been in use for a while and, while it still has a lot of usefulness, the touchscreen smarts don't really stand out as a must-have feature for most people. These are more of a fun and somewhat frivolous accessory than anything else.

That might change as more software updates are released, but for now these models are best for those looking for the most complete connected Fridge Freezer Samsung they can get. You can save money by buying a model without the Family Hub if you're not one of those people. If you have a lot of smart home appliances that you want to control from one screen, or you love the idea of having a refrigerator with a huge touchscreen, it could be worth the investment.