Smart Home Samsung TV

Control your Samsung TV over the internet.

Requirements

• A server running the smartHomeSamsungTVServer application

Example

Search For Your TV

• Make sure your TV is switched on, and on the same network as your laptop/raspberry pi
• Run the command smartHomeSamsungTV search and make a note of the ID and MAC that is found

Create a Config File

• Make a copy of the example-config.json file
• Replace the ID and MACAddress fields with the data discovered earlier

Run the server

smartHomeSamsungTVServer

Run the local client

smartHomeSamsungTV -config=<Path To Your Config File>

Control your TV

You can now make GET requests to the server to control your TV, the list of commands are:

• Turn on the TV: http://<your server ip>/?TVOn=1
• Turn off the TV: http://<your server ip>/?TVOff=1
• Turn the TV Volume Up: http://<your server ip>/?VolumeUp=2 (Note you can change the query value to turn up the TV by different amounts)
• Turn the TV Volume Down: http://<your server ip>/?VolumeDown=2 (Note you can change the query value to turn down the TV by different amounts)
• Mute/Unmute the TV http://<your server ip>/?VolumeMute=1
• Press Play http://<your server ip>/?Play=1
• Press Pause http://<your server ip>/?Pause=1
• Press OK http://<your server ip>/?OK=1

You may also chain these commands together i.e. http://<your server ip>/?TVOn=1&VolumeUp=2

IFTTT

You can use the webhooks service in IFTTT to control your TV, i.e. control your TV through Alexa or Google Home

• Create a new applet
• Select Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa
• Select Say a simple phrase, and fill out the form
• For the service select Webhooks
• Select Make a web request
• For URL enter http://<your server ip>/?TVOn=1
• Save the applet