Samsung TV showing offline in ST when TV powered off - Google Home

OK so this worked at least for the next 10 minutes so that I could upload pictures
I actually entered the IP settings for the wireless network manually including the gateway and DNS (and I did not make it work per se initially )
Then I erased any prior tv registration on the smart things app and I also deleted the rooms and chose a new room name put to force a fresh start
that seems to be the only thing that worked - so far but I was able to upload two pictures