I just got a message that my samsungtv wake on lan is being depricated soon. Anyone know why this is? Seems like a weird thing to drop. The message has a link to the “wakeonlan” integration but it states that it only works for powering on and not powering off. Are there any alternatives out there for powering on AND off samsung tvs over lan? I’m not interested in more junk to buy like bond bridge, ir repeaters for every room. Thanks for any tips or advice on how to move on.
From what? Where?
Which integration are you using? Official/HACS
I used HDMI CEC in the past. It still works. Not integration just the device connected to HA has integration and I control Samsung over CEC.
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Problem with that is these are all network devices not connected to HA via hdmi. My understanding is that they would all need to be connected via hdmi to the HA instance, which is not possible. Am I wrong and this works over lan?
Oh an yeah it’s a bare metal haos on a micro pc using the official integration
Thank you, I commented over there as well. I was using the switch in my automations for on AND off. With the addition of wake on lan, the switch (on the device page for the samsungtv integration) has now been replaced with the wol packet. It’s no longer on and off. Just send wol packet. This only works as power on for my TVs. Resending the packet does not power off the TVs. How are you now turning off your TVs? I get lost in the documentation using a screen reader but I was listening to the link you provided. Are you using the “remote” commands for power off now? None of that populates for me that I can find so it must be straight yaml configuration to get that working? Anyway, thank you for the response and links. At least I’m not the only one looking for answers on this.
Turn off works as before.
You could and still can call the turn_off service call for the TV.
I guess the deprecation of an implicit WOL in the turn_on function is that newer models might not actually turn off the network interface, because it is now running other stuff, like Matter servers or SmartThing services.
Once the new automation is set up, just use the media player entity to turn on and off. The media player turn on sends the wol via the automation. Turn off works as before
I (for example) use Rokus in all rooms on all TV. Roku has HA integration.
Without HA, Roku will turn on/off tv and change source using hdmi CEC connection with TV. I don’t need lan control of TV. I use Roku integration to turn off Roku and turn off TV.
My AV setups are designed with this intention so depending on your use case it may not be optimal. I center my AV system design around setup boxes like Apple TV or Roku and hdmi CEC as it provides single remote to control all functions receiver/TV volume, system power and channel/stream service. When able I connect individual device to HA as backup and fine control but ultimately the set top box always have integration and CEC allow passthrough control of basic needs.