Samsung Hubitat TV Integration (2016 and later)

djh_wolf · September 8, 2025, 9:37pm

Thanks. I'd already searched.

Although I can toggle source, and bring up source menus, I can't see how to simply hit a button to swap to a specific source in one step.

Am I missing something?

evojim · September 8, 2025, 10:43pm

There isn’t a button for each individual source in the driver, but you could do it pretty easily using a virtual button/switch set to trigger the “Set Input Source” function via Rule machine or Webcore.

djh_wolf · September 9, 2025, 8:53am

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

I've linked the TV to smartthings.

Summary

I've generated a personal access token.

Summary

I've selected "connect to smartthings" and saved, and opened seperate log page, entered the API and located the device ID

Summary

Just errors.

A bit lost to be honest. The standard controls work fine to switch on/off, but the logs are whining about IP not valid or tv turned off.

evojim · September 9, 2025, 9:24am

Might be a silly question, but can you control the TV with the SmartThings app? Have you assigned a static ip address to the TV?

djh_wolf · September 9, 2025, 9:25am

Yeah to both. Works perfectly.

Righto, no idea what was going on there. I've been fighting with this all morning, and now it's working.

Perfect, thank you!

evojim · September 9, 2025, 9:44am

Not sure I did anything lol, but glad it's working for you

djh_wolf · September 10, 2025, 8:56pm

Gah, I suspected this would happen.

The personaltoken I acquired from the Instructions in the link seems to be temporary.

All smartthings functionality lost after 24 hrs.

Any pointers on how to grab a full non-expirimg token please?

evojim · September 10, 2025, 9:20pm

I’m not 100% sure, but I think that was a “not so SmartThings” decision a while back. From memory, and again not certain, I think HubiThings Replica resolves the issue.

Bloodtick_Jones · September 10, 2025, 9:54pm

Correct. You should use Replica with Dave’s drivers for Replica.

There is an optional native TV driver with Replica too, but it is not as robust as Dave’s.

There is no other way to keep a new token alive if you don’t have the grandfathered tokens before the 24 hour change.

djh_wolf · September 12, 2025, 10:30pm

Awesome. Cheers all

calinatl · September 15, 2025, 12:17am

Would greatly appreciate if you would be willing to provide some additional detail for how to do this via rule machine...

evojim · September 15, 2025, 7:40am

Does this help?

ts1234 · October 25, 2025, 2:42pm

I have a QN50Q60DAFXZA Samsung TV that has "Ambient" picture mode. The problem I have is other than monitoring the power draw from a plug...I have no way to tell if the TV is in Ambient mode or "TV" mode.

Is there a way to do this. Nothing I see changes on any driver page/tab that I can trigger rules with. Debug in the logs sees nothing.

calinatl · October 25, 2025, 3:22pm

Have you tried using the "Art Mode" toggle? Might be similar.

ts1234 · October 25, 2025, 5:49pm

Thanks...I don't actually see that toggle. All I have that comes close is Ambient.

The problem with it is that it (Ambient) doesn't "set" it to art mode...it toggles it...so if there is no way to know the current state...the result is not usually what is desired.

Bloodtick_Jones · October 25, 2025, 5:57pm

Can you see anything change in ST in the advance webiste? If you can see it here change there are some options. Note this is a cloud service...

ts1234 · October 25, 2025, 7:21pm

Thx

I don’t have st active…I did just find a post elsewhere that said to use the home command to get it to a known state…at least so far that seems to be working …none of the other buttons
seem to be as reliable..from a state perspective

calinatl · October 25, 2025, 9:48pm

Yes, Ambient Mode is like all the other toggles. You need to figure out what button puts it in Ambient mode. Art Mode is toggle 6. Search upthread for either the buttons or the link to the document that gives them. ETA: Here is the post that explains how to find the buttons: Samsung Hubitat TV Integration (2016 and later) - #106 by neonturbo
and here from the Github:
HubitatActive/SamsungTvRemote/Docs/Commands.pdf at master · DaveGut/HubitatActive · GitHub
Looks like Ambient on is button 7

Also, in the device details in Hubitat, go to the Commands tab, and look at the far right side of the page where it shows Current State and State Variables. Ambient should show up. You can use the current state in a RM rule to add logic of what you want to do depending upon current state.

Below is the rule I have that turns on my TV and puts it into Art Mode. The wait for event is just a delay as sometimes there is a delay in the TV responding. The configure command makes sure it is connected. If you read upthread, before I inserted that, I had all sorts of issues. Then I do an other delay of 1 second. Then button 6.

PS- ETA that I don't use Smarthings at all. Just Hubitat.