Has anyone figured out how to automate playing something on Netflix? (e.g. on a Samsung smart TV.)

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I checked the samsung tv I have and it is smart. It’s in my wife’s work room so I don’t normally use it, I just set it up. I can control netflix as set up. I use this custom integration to communicate with the tv. As it is connected via wifi to my network I had to use the method documented in my post above to turn the TV on and off transimitting the IR signal.

It’s not connected to cable tv, we use mythtv to record anything we watch from cable and so the remote set up doesn’t have any channel controls. Below is picture of the remote I’ve set up for it. It’s nothing fancy but works. The 9 square icon gives access to the applications menu.

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This is created via the following lovelace card:

type: custom:stack-in-card
title: TV Controls
mode: vertical
cards:
  - type: custom:tv-card
    entity: media_player.backbed_samsung
    tv: true
    enable_button_feedback: false
    media_control_row:
      - samsung_power
      - mythtv
      - music
      - select_app
      - tv
    channel_row:
      - return
      - info
    navigation_row: buttons
    volume_row: buttons
    custom_keys:
      samsung_power:
        icon: mdi:power
        service: shell_command.wake_samsung_tv
      tv:
        icon: mdi:television-classic
        service: media_player.play_media
        service_data:
          media_content_id: KEY_SOURCE+KEY_LEFT+KEY_LEFT+KEY_LEFT+KEY_ENTER
          media_content_type: send_key
          entity_id: media_player.backbed_samsung
      mythtv:
        icon: mdi:television-play
        service: media_player.play_media
        service_data:
          media_content_id: KEY_SOURCE+KEY_LEFT+KEY_LEFT+KEY_LEFT+KEY_RIGHT+KEY_ENTER
          media_content_type: send_key
          entity_id: media_player.backbed_samsung
      music:
        icon: mdi:music
        service: media_player.play_media
        service_data:
          media_content_id: KEY_SOURCE+KEY_LEFT+KEY_LEFT+KEY_LEFT+KEY_RIGHT+KEY_RIGHT+KEY_ENTER
          media_content_type: send_key
          entity_id: media_player.backbed_samsung
      select_app:
        icon: mdi:apps
        service: media_player.play_media
        service_data:
          media_content_id: KEY_HOME
          media_content_type: send_key
          entity_id: media_player.backbed_samsung

The shell command wake_samsung_tv contains:

#!/bin/bash
ssh -i /config/.ssh/id_rsa -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no [email protected] ./ir-wake-samsung

Then on the pi that sends the wake ir signal the script ir-wake-samsung has the following

#!/bin/bash
ir-ctl -d /dev/lirc1 --send=samsung_power1.key

This link speaks more to the IR setup. IR was only required to wake the tv because WOL didn’t work with WiFi when the TV was off.