This bare-bones custom Home Assistant (HA) component controls art mode on (newer) Samsung The Frame TVs. It is intended to be a proof of concept implementation until I can either contribute to the HA development or get traction for a similar feature request. It uses the samsung-tv-ws-api Python API, also used by the official samsungtv platform in HA. The Python API supports many more features than turning the art mode on and off, but since I could not get these to work, only the most basic switch feature was implemented.
This integration uses the art.py functionality of samsung-tv-ws-api, which is not yet asynchronous. This means that this integration (and therefore also HA) will wait for a reply from the TV before continuing after a polling update. This means that it will degrade the performance of your HA instance once installed. Once the art.py functionality is provided in an asynchronous version (as many other parts of the API already is), I will update this repository accordingly.
The integration can be installed by copying all the files to /<config directory>/custom_components/frame_art and adding something similar to your configuration.yaml,
switch:
- platform: frame_art
switches:
my_tv_art_mode:
name: "My TV art switch"
resource: 192.168.xxx.xxx
| Name | Optional | Default |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| switches | N | - | The array that contains all switches. |
| identifier | N | - | Name of the switch as a slug (my_tv_art_mode above), where multiple entries are possible. |
| resource | N | - | IP address of the TV. |
| name | Y | identifier |
Friendly name of the swicth. |
| timeout | Y | 5 |
Time (in seconds) the TV has to answer after an API call before the switch is declared unavailable. |
When the TV is on, the switch can be used to turn art mode for the TV on and off. The switch becomes unavailable when the TV is in standby mode (powered off). A HA automation will thus typically have to test whether the TV is on, which can be done through the standard Samsung TV integration. I have tested the integration on my 55in The Frame (2022) with Firmware 1640. Feedback on if it works with other models is appreciated.
This would naturally be the way to go long term, especially given that both integrations rely on samsung-tv-ws-api (at least for newer TVs), but my programming skills are not yet good enough to contribute with a PR. This may happen before a feature request is heard; maybe not.