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Samsung TV via ExLink in Home Assistant
samsung_exlink
part of Home Assistant since 2026.9
Local, polling
Set up in the user interface
Quality: Silver
Samsung TV via ExLink is an official Home Assistant integration for Media player. Talks to the device on your own network and asks for changes at regular intervals.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Local, polling – Talks to the device on your own network and asks for changes at regular intervals.
- Setup
- in the user interface
- Kind
- Single device
- Quality scale
- Silver – Stable in daily use: recovers from connection problems and has an active code owner.
- Installations
- 11
- Categories
- Media player
- Provides
- Media player
- Maintained by
- @balloob
- Python packages
samsung-exlink==1.1.1
Setup
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for Samsung TV via ExLink.
- Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.
The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration