Samsung Smart TV

The samsungtv platform allows you to control a Samsung Smart TV.

Setup

Go to the integrations page in your configuration and click on new integration -> Samsung TV. If your TV is on and you have enabled SSDP discovery, it’s likely that you just have to confirm the detected device.

When the TV is first connected, you will need to accept Home Assistant on the TV to allow communication.

YAML Configuration

YAML configuration is around for people that prefer YAML. To use this integration, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
samsungtv:
  - host: IP_ADDRESS

After saving the YAML configuration, the TV must be turned on before launching Home Assistant in order for the TV to be registered the first time.

Wake up TV

To wake up the TV when switched off you can use the wake-on-lan integration and call a service. This is not possible with every device.

wake_on_lan:

samsungtv:
  - host: IP_ADDRESS
    turn_on_action:
      - service: wake_on_lan.send_magic_packet
        data:
          mac: "11:22:33:44:55:66"

Supported models

If your model is not on the list then give it a test, if everything works correctly then add it to the list on GitHub.

Naming

The first letter (U, P, L, H & K) represent the screen type, e.g., LED or Plasma. The second letter represents the region, E is Europe, N is North America and A is Asia & Australia. The two numbers following that represent the screen size. If you add your model remember to remove these first 4 characters before adding to the list.

For example: for model UN55NU7100, the UN55 would mean it’s an LED, North American, 55 inch TV, and the model number listed below would be the remainder: NU7100.

Models tested and working

• C7700 (on doesn’t work)
• D5500
• D6100
• D6300SF
• D6500
• D6505
• D6900 (WOL did not work)
• D7000
• D8000
• EH5300
• EH5600
• ES5500
• ES5700
• ES6100
• ES6300
• ES6800
• F4580
• F6300
• F6400
• F6400AF
• F6500
• F7000
• F8000BF
• K5579
• K5600AK (partially supported, turn on works but state is not updated)
• K6500AF
• KS7005 (no channel change)
• KS7502 (On doesn’t work, Off works fine)
• KS8000
• KS8005
• KS8500
• KU6020
• KU6100
• KU6290
• KU6400U
• KU6470
• KU7000
• M5620
• MU6170UXZG
• MU6179
• MU6199
• NU7090 (On/Off)
• NU7400
• NU8000
• NU8070
• U6000
• U6300
• RU7172

Models tested but not yet working

• J5200 - Unable to see state and unable to control
• J5500 - State is always “on” and unable to control (but port 8001 is open)
• J6200 - State is always “on” and unable to control (but port 8001 is open)
• J6300 - State is always “on” and unable to control (but port 8001 is open)
• JS8005 - State tracking working but unable to control (but port 8001 is open)
• JS9000 - State is always “on” and unable to control (but port 8001 is open)
• JS9500 - State is always “on” and unable to control (but port 8001 is open)
• JU6445K - State is always “on” and unable to control (but port 8001 is open)
• JU6800 - Unable to see state and unable to control
• JU7000 - Unable to see state and unable to control (but port 8001 is open)
• JU7500 - Unable to see state and unable to control
• MU6125 - Unable to see state and unable to control (Tested on UE58MU6125 on port 8001 and 8801)
• MU6300 - Port set to 8001, turning on works, status not working reliably, turning off is not permanent (it comes back on)
• MU6400 - Unable to see state and unable to control (using latest 1270 firmware. Had limited functionality on previous firmware)
• Q60 – Turning on works, turning off does not work, State is always “off”.
• Q6F – Port set to 8001, turning on works, turning off does not work, status not working reliably.
• Q7F - State is always “off” and unable to control via port 8001.
• Q9F - Turning on works, turning off does not work. State is correct. Nothing else works. Port 8001.
• RU8000 - Turning on works, turning off does not work. State is correct but says on periodically but in reality is not. Nothing else works via port 8001.

None of the 2014 (H) and 2015 (J) model series (e.g., J5200) will work, since Samsung have used a different (encrypted) type of interface for these.

Usage

Changing channels

Changing channels can be done by calling the media_player.play_media service with the following payload:

entity_id: media_player.samsung_tv
media_content_id: 590
media_content_type: channel

Selecting a source

It’s possible to switch between the 2 sources TV and HDMI.

Home Assistant & Home Assistant Core on Docker

No additional actions are required

Other install methods

You will need to install the websocket-client Python package in your Home Assistant install. This will probably be done with:

pip3 install websocket-client

Remembering to activate your venv if you’re using a venv install.