Hisense Expands ConnectLife App with Google Home APIs for Broader Smart Home Control

Hisense, a leading global consumer electronics and home appliance brand, announced the integration of Google’s new Home APIs into its ConnectLife app, allowing users to integrate their third-party smart home devices into the ConnectLife ecosystem by this fall. 

This move will enable Hisense ConnectLife app users to seamlessly connect and control not only Hisense products such as TVs, refrigerators, and air conditioners, but also a wide range of popular third-party smart home devices, creating an integrated smart home experience.

Coming this fall, the Hisense ConnectLife app will allow users to seamlessly onboard and control third-party smart home products, including those Matter and ‘Works with Google Home’ certified.

This announcement coincides with Google I/O 2025, where Hisense will be introduced as a launch partner for Google’s new Home APIs. This integration leverages the Google Home APIs’ access to over 750 million devices, including Matter, “Works with Google Home” certified devices, and Google Nest devices. The expanded connectivity offers improved device compatibility and sophisticated automation features, allowing users to control both Hisense products and third-party devices such as smart plugs, lighting, doorbells, curtains, and more with a single app.

ConnectLife users can seamlessly integrate third-party devices to create experiences that enhance entertainment, pet care, air quality, and more. One-touch modes and custom automations can combine Hisense products with third-party devices to create smart responses around the home, such as air conditioners that automatically adjust based on third-party air quality sensors or smart lights that provide visual notifications when the Hisense refrigerator’s VersaTemp drawer reaches the ideal temperature for chilling beverages.

Visual notifications from smart lights have existed before, but thanks to Hisense’s integration, users can easily configure these detailed cross-device interactions directly within the intuitive ConnectLife app. This simplifies setup and offers benefits such as third-party smart lights visually alerting hard-of-hearing users when they’re busy with other household tasks or have muted their smartphone. This creates a seamless, unified smart home experience without the need to use multiple third-party apps for configuration.

The improved ConnectLife app with Google Home APIs integration will be available this fall for both Android and iOS platforms.