$100 Bucks US for anyone that can write a local driver that's faster than Hubconnect and Samsung hub to TV for a QN75Q7FAMFXZA.
Outta curiosity why not just use a Logitech Harmony hub? On sale for $70 at Crutchfield. Then you can control most IR devices in the room.
1 not sure if it will work.. it's an rf TV. Also a point of failure. Going with keep it simple so wife doesn't stab me. I really just need it to turn on and off really fast because I'm using the TV as a trigger to turn on some outlets and a second later the receiver. I actually don't even need to send commands to it. Just detect when it turns on and off. I have a backup method I may try if no one comes up with a driver to watch the wattage.
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Fair point on the failure aspect (although Logitech is a great company and I see more expansion than failure). I think I have seen your post about the controlling the Onkyo right? cool stuff
FYI the Harmony Hub is RF capable and does work with that TV (and any I have ever needed it too, I install them all the time)
Sorry to side track your thread, wish I could code I'd take a stab at the 100 bucks 
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Tested using the plug wattage but still not as fast as I'd like. It takes about 4 seconds this way. It is a few seconds faster though so there's that. Ideally, I'd like it to take around a second or less.
Only $100? That's all you'll offer to keep your wife from stabbing you?
As soon as you provide a reasonable offer, I'll spin up my 1985 DOS batch file coding skills and whip something up for you. Can you reflash the TV with MS DOS 2.1?
I know what you mean, until I started using Harmony remotes, I was always one wrong button press (by her) away from mortal danger. <EEK!>
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I have been scammed by them a few times. Google TV anyone? Paid big money for their hardware and they stopped supporting it literally a couple months later. And didn't they try to brick everyone's hub a year or so ago? And only recanted when there was a huge outrage? They are far from great. So no, strike Logitech off the list for me.
I also would like to see a LAN integration without all the extra complication and failure points.
I hear that and will not post it again here. However to this...
...I have to object. Everyone makes mistakes, and it's what you do after the mistake that is most important. Logitech decided they were wrong, and gave every Link user a Free Harmony hub. To me that does them a great company!
but that is why there is more than one Cola on the market.
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No, there is not. There is only Root Beer. All others are not of the body...
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While not impossible, it's incredibly hard to do unless someone owns that TV to experiment with. If I'm being realistic, it's probably 50 hours of work to get it working unless someone has details on the protocol...
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There are a bunch of other people looking for this driver too. They're more than welcome to chip in to the pot. There's a Samsung driver too if someone has a friend over there. The only thing I ask is whoever develops the driver make it free for the community so they can build on it later if they want.
She spends the rest.
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What are you using for the automation? I never seen the logic like that.
All simple stuff in RM4. I have a zooz power strip with each plug as component devices. The TV, TV SmartHub, and Onkyo Receiver connected. Rest are on a different power strip connected to a Zigbee outlet. Each outlet on the power strip is named as the device that is connected. Onkyo is a telnet connection via driver to the receiver to set the source on power up to always be the 1.
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Code bounty awarded to @djgutheinz and given to charity. Marking this bounty as closed.
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