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Product releases, integration guides, and behind-the-scenes thinking from the team building APIs for the physical world.

Announcing Seam Instant Keys

Instant Key is a powerful new product that enables you to create and share mobile keys with a single API call.
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Dawn Ho
Chief Product Officer
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How U.S. Tariffs Impact Smart Home Device Manufacturers and Demand for Devices

New U.S. tariffs on imported smart home devices—some reaching up to 46%—are putting pressure on manufacturers, particularly those relying on Chinese or Vietnamese assembly, to either absorb costs or pass them on to consumers. While consumer demand may soften due to rising prices, enterprise and property management sectors are expected to remain resilient, sustaining overall growth in the smart home market.
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Sharon Lee
General Counsel
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Meet Our New
Access Control Systems API & SDK

Seam has launched a new API for integrating physical access control systems like Salto, Latch, and Assa Abloy, enabling developers to easily issue mobile keys, PIN codes, and plastic cards. The API simplifies complex integrations and comes with native iOS and Android SDKs, helping software and AI agents grant access across a growing list of supported systems.
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Dawn Ho
Chief Product Officer
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New Capability Flags

Seam introduces new device capability flags, letting developers see exactly what IoT devices can do in real time, and making app development simpler and more accurate.
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Dawn Ho
Chief Product Officer
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New Integration: Honeywell Resideo Thermostats

Today, we’re excited to announce our brand new Honeywell Thermostat integration. You can control Honeywell thermostats, along with Nest and Ecobee using a single API to set climates, change mode, and more!
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Dawn Ho
Chief Product Officer
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New Integration: Tedee

This week, we are super excited to release our official Tedee integration! You can now connect and control all Tedee locks.
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Dawn Ho
Chief Product Officer
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Introducing Seam CLI

Today we’re thrilled to announce the release of our brand new Seam CLI client. This command line utility lets you control Seam resources (devices, workspaces, and more) directly inside your terminal. We’re also making the CLI available inside a web browser with a ready-to-go environment inside console.seam.co
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Seve Ibarluzea
CTO
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Announcing our Seam Go SDK

This week we are excited to the beta launch of our Go SDK. You can now use Seam inside your Go-lang applications.
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Seve Ibarluzea
CTO
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New Seam Java SDK

This week we are excited to the beta launch of our Java SDK.
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Seve Ibarluzea
CTO
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Wyze Integration

Seam is excited to release our official Wyze Integration! You can now connect and control Wyze locks to create access codes for temporary or permanent access.
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Seve Ibarluzea
CTO
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Hello C# SDK!

Developers, developers, developers! Today we are releasing a beta version of our official C# SDK!
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Seve Ibarluzea
CTO
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New Integration: Dormakaba Oracode

Seam is excited to release our official Dormakaba Oracode integration! You can now connect and control Dormakaba 480i and 660i locks to create access codes.
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Dawn Ho
Chief Product Officer
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New Integration: 4Suites

Seam is excited to release our official 4Suites integration! You can now connect and control 4Suites locks to unlock doors and issue wallet passes.
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Sy Bohy
CEO
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New Integration: Igloohome

This week, we are super excited to release our official Igloohome integration! You can now connect and control all Igloohome locks, including the popular padlocks and keyboxes. We’re thrilled to be working with the Igloo team and see what you guys build with their devices.
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Dawn Ho
Chief Product Officer
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New Integration: NoiseAware

We are releasing our NoiseAware sensor integration. You can now connect NoiseAware sensors to your Seam workspace and dashboard to receive elevated noise-level incidents.
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Sy Bohy
CEO
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New Integration: TTLocks

The Seam TTLock integration is now live. This integration lets you connect any TTLock smart lock and use the Seam API and Dashboard to control these devices. Create access codes, remotely unlock them, read battery levels, and more.
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Dawn Ho
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Introducing Seam Components

Today we’re announcing Seam Components! Components are a suite of pre-built UI elements to rapidly and effortlessly add advanced device management UI into your products.
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Sy Bohy
CEO
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New Integration: 2N Intercoms

Today we are announcing the release of our 2N intercom integration. This now lets you connect 2N intercoms and access systems to Seam and use our API + dashboard to control them. You can unlock doors, edit resident directory, and retrieve entry events. Most 2N intercom models come with a built in camera which we will release as part of our broader Universal Camera API later this summer.
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Sy Bohy
CEO
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New Integration: Kwikset Smart Locks

We are excited to announce the official release of our Kwikset Halo locks integration. This integration allows you to connect any Kwikset Halo smart lock and use the Seam API and Dashboard to control the devices, create access codes to let people in, unlock the door, and receive events.
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Dawn Ho
Chief Product Officer
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New Integration: ControlByWeb

We are excited to announce the official release of our ControlByWeb Relay integration. This integration allows you to connect ControlByWeb relay devices to your Seam workspace, enabling you to unlock doors, turn on lights, and more.
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Sy Bohy
CEO
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New Integration: Minut Sensors

We are officially releasing our Minut noise sensor integration. This integration lets you connect Minut noise sensors to your Seam workspace and receive noise level incident events.
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Sy Bohy
CEO
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The Ultimate Guide to Access Control

This four part series guide provides a comprehensive introduction of how access control is achieved. The first post by introducing access control key terminology and then dives into the different types of systems and credentials, as well as how those can be remotely controlled through Seam’s products. Subsequent posts cover Smart Locks, Access Control Systems and Intercoms.
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Dawn Ho
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