I actually fall In the bucket of having a 2012 (maybe 2013) and a 2019 as well.
So am in a position to test both legacy and tizen
I don’t remember what pre-tizen was called but believe it had a name (might be more appropriate than legacy) but clearly the older tv’s are slightly less capable in terms of what functions they expose. These TV’s still work great and I wouldn’t be deprecating them - maybe it’s even as simple as one integration being ‘pre-2013’ rather than legacy
If split - would there be any issues in discovery? My Tizen doesn’t currently discover at all.
Did plan on trying to have a crack at updating the tizen plugin but got a bit side tracked when I couldn’t even change the source (HDMI 1/2/3/4) without using SmartThings
Any help to get added my smart tv to HA, the discovery keep finding the TV but is not able to connect…
it’s a UE58H5203 here a portscan:
nmap 192.168.1.21 3412ms Mon 31 May 19:25:46 2021
Starting Nmap 7.91 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2021-05-31 19:26 CEST
Nmap scan report for SamsungTV58.fritz.box (192.168.1.21)
Host is up (0.0073s latency).
Not shown: 996 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
4443/tcp open pharos
7676/tcp open imqbrokerd
8080/tcp open http-proxy
8443/tcp open https-alt
PS. i never found an official app that allow remote control, the only “smart thing” that the TV does, is to appear on the Youtube app on the smartphone and i’m able to remote control the playback of youtube videos from the phone
on the 8080 and 8443 ports seems there is an http(s) server that reply with these headers:
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://www.youtube.com
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 345
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:30:05 GMT
@jaruba@ollo69 Any updates on your collaboration on @jaruba 's original integration? I notice there are still the two separate ones out there. I’ve tried @jaruba 's on my UN65H8000 and no luck. But I always default to “I’m doing it wrong” rather than the integration is wrong.
Also, if any testing is wanted I have these Samsung TVs:
UN65H8000
UN55TU7000FXZC
QN75Q80TAFXZC
to be honest, after testing a couple of components, jaruba among them, I wasn’t completely pleased. I’ve been using jaruba’s for more than a year, which is great, but recently certain features went down for my model and moved away to something else.
I ended up creating my own “integration”, mixing webCoRE (webCore only works for TVs showing up in Smartthings) with http requests and node red (I assume it can be done in HA as well) and putting everythign together with the universal media player integration in HA. I’ts not really hard, I’m kind of a newbie and it works worlds better than any integration I tried.
The tv updates every 5 seconds in HA and always sets the correct picture and sound settings for every source/app/whatever, which were my two main aims. Beyond that,webcore does feature a bunch of available commands not present in any integration. It would be great if we could investigrate webCoRE together in this forum because the majority of commands are straightforward but some aren’t and there’s not documentation about them in the webCoRE forums. We are probably missing something really powerful whithin webcore and it can be really easily triggered from HA. Here are all the commands available for my TV.
Another user with 2 TVs here, an older 2013 legacy one and a 2020 Tizen one. I seem to have the opposite problem of everyone else in that the new one works well with both ollo69 and jaruba’s integrations (thanks for the great work) but I can’t find one that will reliably report on the power state of the older legacy one. The official integration will pick it up but the power state flips between on and off when the TV is constantly on so it is no good for a simple automation to switch the back lighting which is all I am trying to do. Does anyone know of a integration that works on the older pre Tizen models and will reliably report state please?
Thanks Pete
UN40MU6290 and UN55KU6290 here. Certainly willing to test intermittently.
I haven’t gone down the path of checking out the implementations mentioned above but I will be looking into those with interest over the next few weeks.
I don’t know that any of you have tried this custom integration. I have an H series TV, an H6400, and it works well. This custom integration is actively developed as well, so there are fixes on breaking changes.
The story of the H series is that Samsung originally released with a non-ecrypted connection. It had a lot of awesome features like sending the TV screen’s content to your phone or tablet through the official app, then they removed the functionality probably because someone sued them for copyright issues if you send the content to another device.
Then they did a few firmware updates until they introduced and encrypted connection as well. SmartThings originally was supporting these TVs until the encryption took place. In SmartThings’ groovy code there is no way to do encryption like AES what the device required. These encrypted TVs are pre-Tizen, but not that much as the others, as they fall into a category in between the two.
The only downside of the H series TVs is that you cannot turn them on remote. You either need to use HDMI CEC or an IR blaster like a Broadlink device.
Unfortunately no idea. Try to search for SamyGo and read some articles on the old forum there. But why would you want to revert a firmware. Mostly nothing is supported there anymore…
I cannot really think any advantage of reverting the firmware on an old TV like the H series…
It is a nice 4 HDMI TV with 3D support, but any smart functionality is pointless anymore, except the integration to control it, but it works with the latest firmware.
I want to try roll back the flash as the official HA integration is not being useful and just as you mentioned at the end of your comment… “The only downside of the H series TVs is that you cannot turn them on remote” … I’m not being able to control anything at all about tyhis device … I do can see it state (on/off) but that’s it … i cant change the source, volumen turn it on/off… so as far as I understood you maaaybe with the past firmware it could be possible so I want to try as with this one is not possible
Do you think it could work? Or by chance do you know any other integration that actually let me control the H series? Thanks again!
What I linked above that is working with the H series, but here is the link again:
Install it from HACS
About turning the TV on remote, it is a physical limitation of the TV. It goes to deep sleep and can only be waken up by either HDMI CEC commands or IR, like Broadlink.
Have you ever connected your model to the SmartView app by Samsung?
Unfortunately the app has been decommissioned by Samsung and cannot be downloaded anymore from the Play Store, but that was one of the official apps to control the TV from the local network.
No… maybe I got the TV just few months after the decommissioning, so the TV already got updated to the latest firmware and i was not able to use it
The repo https://github.com/eclair4151/SmartCrypto is talking about a SmartView2 implementation, so i assume for who have a SmartView(1) model there is nothing that can be done?
Going back to the original request… Seems like nobody figured out how to support Samsung TVs from 2012-2014 yet. I tried all the plugins in HACS and the integration using Samsung Smart TV and it discovers the TV without any devices or entities. I simply want to power it on an off without having to go down the path of IR or smart plug.
When I entered the IP address in the Samsung Smart TV integration, the smart TV asked for confirmation and it shows in my network settings in the TV “Home Assistant” as authorized but I don’t have any entities to control
If you are talking about the H series TVs, then you have a major problem of understanding how the TV works. You cannot turn on the TV without IR or HDMI CEC.
I am still using @sermayoral’s integration and works well. It has a solution to use an IR blaster or other device through a service call to turn on the TV. Turning off is not a problem.
It has not been updated for a while as CORE has the H series integrated as well, but for me was not reliable. But as we speak, on HA 2023.08, it is still working (without a device, but with a single entity).