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Samsung Infrared

The Samsung Infrared integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] lets you control a Samsung TV using any infrared transmitter previously configured in Home Assistant.

Because the integration communicates over infrared, it operates in a one-way, fire-and-forget fashion: commands are sent to the TV but there is no feedback channel to confirm the current state of the TV. The integration therefore uses assumed states.

Prerequisites

Before setting up the Samsung Infrared integration, you need a working infrared transmitter set up in Home Assistant that exposes an Infrared entity. For example, you can use an ESPHome device with an IR LED pointed at your Samsung TV.

Configuration

To add the Samsung Infrared device to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:

Manual configuration steps

If the above My button doesn’t work, you can also perform the following steps manually:

Browse to your Home Assistant instance.
Go to Settings > Devices & services .
In the bottom right corner, select the Add Integration button.
From the list, select Samsung Infrared.
Follow the instructions on screen to complete the setup.

Device type

The type of Samsung device to control. Currently, only TV is supported.

Infrared transmitter

The infrared transmitter entity to use for sending commands. This must be an entity provided by a hardware integration (such as ESPHome) that has already been set up with an IR transmitter.

Supported devices

The integration supports Samsung TVs that can be controlled via the standard Samsung infrared protocol.

Supported functionality

The Samsung Infrared integration provides the following entities.

Buttons

Power: Toggles the TV power state.
Source: Cycles through input sources, including TV, HDMI 1 to HDMI 4, USB drives, DLNA devices, and other available sources.
Settings: Opens the TV settings menu.
Info: Displays program information.
Exit: Exits the current menu or app.
Return: Returns to the previous screen or menu.
Home: Opens the TV home screen.
Red, Green, Yellow, Blue: Color buttons for special functions (function depends on the current context).
Up, Down, Left, Right: Navigation buttons for menu navigation.
OK: Confirms selections in menus.
Previous channel: Switches to the previously viewed channel.
Number 0-9: Number keys for channel selection and text input.
Fast forward: Fast forwards playback.
Rewind: Rewinds playback.
Record: Starts recording (if supported by the TV).
Tools: Opens the tools menu.
Browser: Opens the web browser.
AD/Subtitle: Toggles audio description or subtitles.
E-Manual: Opens the electronic manual.

Media player

Samsung TV: Represents the Samsung TV and allows you to control it via IR commands. Supported features include turn on, turn off, volume up, volume down, mute, channel up, channel down, play, pause, stop, and source selection (TV, HDMI 1, HDMI 2, HDMI 3, HDMI 4).

Known limitations

The integration uses assumed state, meaning Home Assistant cannot read the actual state of the TV (for example, whether it is on or off, or what the current volume is).
Volume control is step-based only; there is no way to set an absolute volume level.

Removing the integration

This integration follows standard integration removal.

To remove an integration instance from Home Assistant

Go to Settings > Devices & services and select the integration card.
From the list of devices, select the integration instance you want to remove.
Next to the entry, select the three dots menu. Then, select Delete.

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