I have been living in the Samsung ecosystem for quite a long time now, and i finally decided to make the switch to Pixel because the 8 looked pretty great, and it was time for a new phone.
Big surprise to me, is that I can no longer use any of my Samsung Smart Tags, which I have quite a few of (Dog collar, Luggage, Car, eScooter, Keys, Backpack, etc).
I am pretty upset with this, as I purchased the smart tag pro’s, and it wasn’t exactly cheap. I previously had some Tile devices, but I found them to be incredibly unreliable, and I really don’t want to have to re-purchase a bunch of devices and the things that hold them (collar, waterproof container etc).
With all of that said, is there any unofficial way to get the Samsung smart devices working on a Pixel? From my understanding, they are just bluetooth devices. I don’t see why there would be any physical restriction to pairing them to my Pixel, it’s just the software stopping it. Like is there some kind of jailbroken Samsung Smart Things apk that tells the app that you’re on a Samsung device? I’ve looked around but haven’t had much luck finding antyhing, so I thought I might ask here.
I don’t think you’re going to end up getting any comments about successfully getting this to work, but hopefully I’m wrong and my comment ends up being irrelevant.
It doesn’t look like this is possible, by design from Samsung. We’re talking deep in the smart things app a check for if it’s a Samsung system and throwing an FU if the system isn’t.
Hate to tell you to spend more money, especially for something Samsung who dicked you in the first place, but you might be best served getting a second hand or refurb Samsung tablet to use for administering your tags.
I don’t see why there would be any physical restriction to pairing them to my Pixel, it’s just the software stopping it.
Correct, because there isn’t. It’s a play out of Apples book, which is why Samsung sucks shit. Welcome to real Android! You made the right call.
Since you’ve already lost the money though, there’s a handful of apps that (should) let you still use them AFAIK. Search the play store for Samsung smart tag.
You’ve always got to be careful of Vendor lock in.
I don’t have Smart Tags but apparently you should still be able to locate them using offline finding with the web version of Samsung Smart Things? Other than that, quick Googling didn’t yield anything helpful, it does look like Samsung wants to lock you in their ecosystem.
I didn’t know that there was a web portal. Just connected to it from my pixel, and all of my tags just say “not supported”… Sigh. I was pretty hopeful about that one.
