UPDATE: 2016 Samsung TV Smartthings Integration = BEWARE it's False Advertising - Update: Not anymore!

[Happytoon (Tony)]

To all Samsung TV owners who bought a 2016 TV on the promise that it is connectable to Smartthings… Excellent news, some clever community users figured out how to connect 2016 LG TVs with the Smartthings Hub…

• Samsung claimed that their TVs can be connected to Smartthings; wrong, that’s a lie, not implemented…
• LG never claimed that their TVs can be connected to Smartthings, yet they are !!!

The solution is therefore simple, put your Samsung TV on ebay and get an LG one instead !
Problem solved!

I was interested in the LG TV in the first place as it can also be used as part of a wireless speaker network system when the TV is off! (nice feature). I only went to the Samsung TV solely because of the smartthings integration!

SmartThings control of LG webOS 3.0 TVs?

Quick update: I have a solution now! In short: I had to “give in” and use Node to augment Smart Things. Slightly more detail for now: I’m not quite done yet, so some of this may change, but in general: I have a Synology device, so I used the GUI to install Node (note that I actually have Node and Apache both running, which doesn’t seem to be a problem at all!) SSH into my Synology and using NPM I installed lgtv2, so literally npm install lgtv2 (Obviously) plug my LG TV in with wired Ethernet. (Slightly less obviously) I needed to enable WakeOnLan, which is done implicitly by disabling the power saving mode. This was tricky to find because it seems to be relatively recent that LG changed this workflow and the old docs all refer to an explicit WOL menu that’s no longer there. Put this in…