Strange behavior with Samsung TV randomly triggering automations

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Hi All,

Been running HAOS on Raspberry pi for about 3 weeks now. Since adding my Samsung Tv to HA using Samsung Smart TV.

I set up an automation so that when the TV is turned on, HA also turns on the back light for the TV and the Sky Q box. All works fine. I set up another automation for turning it all off again, also working fine.

However, since doing this I’ve noticed some strange behavior, notably the TV randomly turning on, so I started doing some digging to see if I could get to the cause.

I have a dashboard with the Sky Q and TV media card on there. When the TV was randomly switching on, the card would change to reflect that and start displaying channel info etc. This is important later.

I went ahead and disabled my TV / lights / sky automations ins HA. I also added a new automation, to send a notification to my phone whenever the TV turns on. I got that notification a moment ago. I flicked over to the HA dashboard and… the media players for Sky and TV were both off. The TV itself was actually off.

I cannot understand why this notification automation was triggered when the TV didn’t turn on, or why it was randomly turning on before.

Any thoughts?!

Thanks in advance

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Software update

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Thanks for the reply!

As in, you believe the TV is turning itself on to complete a software update? Or you believe a software update is required on the TV to fix the issue?

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Others have reported that the Samsung turns on at regular intervals to check for software updates.
It is registered in HA as the TV coming on for a brief moment, but then it turns off again.