The Samsung SmartThings Station effectively takes a wireless device pad and adds a powerful hardware button that can automate your smart home -- to a point.

We just finished reviewing Samsung's latest Smart TV, and it wasn't the picture quality, the style or even the comprehensive app suite that impressed us most. It was the awesome remote. Find out why.

Your Samsung remote can only control one TV at a time. If you pair your remote to a new TV, you will have to go through this procedure again if you want to use it with the original TV in the future.

On most models, you'll find a control stick on the back of the Samsung TV, in the bottom-right corner. You can long-press this control stick to turn on your Samsung TV without the remote.

And, if Samsung’s smart home ambitions include the remote, it may even let you control lights, cameras, and other devices baked into SmartThings.