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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 and Serial-controlled. 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
- 14
- Categories
- Media player, Serial-controlled
- Provides
- Media player
- Maintained by
- @balloob
- Python packages
samsung-exlink==1.2.1
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