Beating my brains in, am I trying to do the impossible? Virtual switch that opens a show

[JDRoberts]

I’m a little bit confused… How does this differ from your previous thread?

New samsung tv, having issues with automation

I just got my 2022 samsung TV in the mail. I expected since it has smartthings and its samsung it wpuld have loads of options for automations. Instead this is all I get Imgur: The magic of the Internet . I was really hoping to have a virtual switch for each of my favorite TV shows and be able to click it and it turn the TV on to that show, dim my living room lights and turn off the rest of the lights. Instead I dont see how to automate basically anything other than to turn the TV on. Can anyone give guidance to making my switches dream come true?

Because, as I said there, if you can use Alexa to launch a specific show by voice, then there is a method for putting that into a smartthings routine, so that you can start the process from a virtual switch.

But I don’t know if that specific tv model can use Alexa to launch individual shows or not.

Since I put a lot of details into the other thread, I’m not going to repeat all of that here, but look at the responses there, and see if they help at all.