Samsung led tv 40 ue40h6410

[Daniel2_Kusterer]

Hello toghether,

I know that older Smart TV ‘s can’t be connected to Smartthings. I have an 2014 samsung led tv 40 ue40h6410. It works still perfekt and in the moment I have integrated this TV with a Switch Bot IR blaster. In my Home Assistant instsllstion this TV was discoverd directly. So I was asking myself , maybe I can add it to Smartthings in a better way. Is there maybe a chance for writing an Edge Driver or somethibg like that ? Thank you

[jkp]

Have you tried setting your Home Assistant as a Matter Bridge. Then try to bring it into ST.

[Daniel2_Kusterer]

This was a good and interessting idea. The first part worked. Smartthings discoverd the Bridge and found the TV. But I could only controll the volume, not more. But I will have a closer look at this

[Paul_Oliver (PCO)]

There are at least 2 ways to use Matter to bring devices from HA to ST see the following.

Controlling HomeAssistant device from SmartThings

I use both MatterBridge and Matter Hub to bring Home Assistant devices into SmartThings. They both have there advantages and disadvantages. MatterBridge - It will bring the entire device with multiple Entities into ST as a single device, while Matter Bridge will bring each Entity into SmartThings as separate devices. An example is my VOC sensors. MatterBridge gives you 1 ST device with temperature, humidity, VOC and battery. Matter Hub would require 3 separate devices in ST. Since I am near the 300 device limit this is a major consideration for me. Matter Hub - It brings each Entity of multiple Entity devices into ST are separate devices. And you might want that. An example would be a power strip with 6 outlets, where you want individual ST devices for each outlet. Matter Hub also let’s …