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Samsung Smart TV in Home Assistant

samsungtv part of Home Assistant since 0.13

Local, push Set up in the user interface Quality: Gold

Samsung Smart TV is an official Home Assistant integration for Media player and Remote. Talks to the device on your own network and is told about every change straight away.

Facts about this integration

Compatible with Home Assistant
yes, official integration
Connection
Local, push – Talks to the device on your own network and is told about every change straight away.
Setup
in the user interface
Kind
Single device
Quality scale
Gold – Very good user experience: set up in the interface, discovered automatically, documented in detail.
Installations
92,825 (13.6 % of the installations that share statistics)
Categories
Media player, Remote
Provides
Diagnostics, Media player, Remote
Found automatically via
Network discovery (Zeroconf), Network discovery (DHCP), Network discovery (SSDP)
Maintained by
@chemelli74
Python packages
getmac==0.9.5, samsungctl[websocket]==0.7.1, samsungtvws[async,encrypted]==3.0.5, wakeonlan==3.3.0, async-upnp-client==0.48.1

Setup

  1. Home Assistant can find this integration on its own: if it is suggested under Settings → Devices & services, confirm it there.
  2. In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
  3. Click "Add integration" and search for Samsung Smart TV.
  4. Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.

Add to my Home Assistant

The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.

Known issues and fixes

8 open issues and 6 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Samsung Smart TV in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.6.0.

Open

  • open Reported problem #166226 since March 22, 2026 · 7 reactions · 11 comments · #166226
  • open Reported problem #156635 since November 15, 2025 · 1 reaction · 11 comments · #156635
  • open Reported problem #143928 since April 30, 2025 · 0 reactions · 33 comments · #143928
  • open Reported problem #177252 since July 26, 2026 · 0 reactions · 8 comments · #177252
  • open Reported problem #180422 since August 27, 2026 · 0 reactions · 5 comments · #180422
  • open Reported problem #179510 since August 18, 2026 · 0 reactions · 3 comments · #179510
  • open Reported problem #178523 since August 8, 2026 · 0 reactions · 2 comments · #178523
  • open Reported problem #178949 since August 12, 2026 · 0 reactions · 1 comment · #178949

Fixed

Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 13, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.

Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →

Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration

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