pysamsungtv

pysamsungtv is an async Python library that talks to Samsung TVs over HTTPS JSON-RPC.

Why

Samsung, in their infinite wisdom, disabled ports 8001 and 8002. This breaks the existing Home Assistant integration/libraries for all 2024+ models. They still expose their JSON-RPC over port 1516/1515, but it is undocumented.

I got frustrated enough to do a clean-room implemenation of it here.

Installation

# pypi
pip install pysamsungtv

# local dev
just install

The package depends on aiohttp for HTTP/1.1 TLS transport. TLS verification is disabled by default because Samsung panels present self-signed certificates; set verify_ssl=True when the certificate chain is trusted on your host.

Usage

Check tests for example usage.

Every helper method corresponds to the JSON-RPC methods in the protocol notes (e.g. get_tv_states, direct_channel_control, volume_up_down, remote_key_control, sound_mode_control, etc). Each coroutine returns the parsed result body or raises a SamsungTVError subclass on transport/protocol failures. Custom RPCs can be issued with SamsungTVClient.send_request().

The optional on_update callback is invoked sequentially after every response. It receives the RPC method name and the parsed payload, making it easy to wire into Home Assistant's entity update routines.

Development

• Install and run pre-commit (pip install pre-commit && pre-commit install) to ensure mypy and pytest pass locally before committing.
• All code is typed and passes mypy using the configuration in pyproject.toml.
• Run the test suite with pytest. Unit tests use fully mocked transports.
• Integration tests require a real TV: set SAMSUNG_TV_HOST (plus optional SAMSUNG_TV_PORT and/or SAMSUNG_TV_TOKEN) and run pytest -m integration. If no token is supplied the first run will prompt for authorization and cache the returned token under .pytest_cache/samsung_tv_token for later runs.
• A Justfile is included for convenience: just install, just install-tests, just test, just mypy, etc.
• All command inputs are exposed as enums in pysamsungtv.enums (also re-exported at the package root) so you can rely on autocomplete/validation for things like InputSource, PictureMode, SoundMode, and RemoteKey.
• Convenience helpers such as set_picture_mode, set_sound_mode, select_speaker, select_input_source, set_volume, mute()/unmute(), and art_mode_on()/art_mode_off() call the corresponding *_control RPCs for you.