Question

My Samsung TV from 2017 does not have the Smartthings App installed. And I cannot find it in the App Section of the TV. Its a UHD model called MU7009. The latest Firmware 1280. 5 is installed. Most answers from support neither clearly confirm that this feature will never come for my model range, nor when it will be available. Is there any way you know how to install newer firmware from a newer model series on my TV to use the app? Could anyone point me in a direction, where I may flash an newer Firmware - my guarantee is already expired, so no loss there. Or can anyone share her/his experience in trying to do the same? Just to be clear, I already use both -classic and new- Smartthings Apps on phones and tablets and I am also able to use those devices as TV remote or for screensharing. It’s the other way round: I want (my family) to be able to control Smartthings directly from the TV!  

Answer 1

I wouldn't bother, I have an ru7400 from 2019 and the smartthings app is terrible. You can switch lights on and run scenes but that's it. There's no control over anything other than actuators as far as I can see.  

Comments

@septicidal agreed. I don’t think I bothered with it since setting up my tv. There’s no way to organize it, it’s super slow, etc.  

Answer 2

Not only would I not bother, firmware is carefully tumes to the hardware in a device. I know with modern devices it seems like its cake but you have zero idea what special code is in the firmware yoi need to allow the device to provide basic functionality. Doing what you suggest would at least not provide what you want and at most probably brick your TV. Not worth it.  

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@anatolia7046 it won't brick it, the software subsystem of the Samsung smart TVs is isolated from the critical operational code, but its a very slow system and the software on it is painfully bad in most cases. We don't even use it, we use a good settop instead and let the internal junk fester on its own.  

Answer 3

Your samsung tv is not going to last much longer anyway.