# SamsungTV Flow, help please
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/samsungtv-flow-help-please/12055
**Category:** General
**Created:** [10 June 2019 23:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/samsungtv-flow-help-please/12055 "2019-06-10T23:52:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@sucram](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/sucram)
#### Post date: [10 June 2019 23:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/samsungtv-flow-help-please/12055/1 "2019-06-10T23:52:15Z")
I hesitate to ask but i have tried for hours to get a samsung tv flow to work, no luck at all.
Have tried several contrib-samsungtv / samsungnewtv etc nodes.
I wonder if anyone has a flow they might like to share ?
I am trying to get a few KEY\_POWERON -POWEROFF etc commands to run.
I greatly appreciate any ideas or tips.
Thanking you in advance
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### Author:  [@ukmoose](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ukmoose)
#### Post date: [11 June 2019 06:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/samsungtv-flow-help-please/12055/2 "2019-06-11T06:27:50Z")
check your samsung tv is compatible. Samsung frequently change the API for Tv’s based on the model type and also the year of release.
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### Author:  [@sucram](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/sucram)
#### Post date: [11 June 2019 07:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/samsungtv-flow-help-please/12055/3 "2019-06-11T07:00:49Z")
Thanks for reply ukmoose, i have looked a little online but can't find a difinative answer on compatibility? I have a wol node that awakens my tv with mac addresss , otherwise is there a quick way to confim if it will work in node red ?
Thanks again
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### Author:  [@ukmoose](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ukmoose)
#### Post date: [11 June 2019 12:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/samsungtv-flow-help-please/12055/4 "2019-06-11T12:34:45Z")
If you read the info for the nodes, most give either the compatibility or the specific TV it is tested with.
You will need to compare that against the TV specs you have.
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### Author:  [@sucram](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/sucram)
#### Post date: [11 June 2019 14:20 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/samsungtv-flow-help-please/12055/5 "2019-06-11T14:20:56Z")
Thanking you once again, i have looked at node-red-contrib-newsamsungtv and it should work on my tv from 2017. I have set up a basic flow with power on /off hdmi etc.
If i wake up tv with remote and run a node command , i get message "TV is on" in node red terminal.
What i would ask is if anyone has a flow for samsung tv running so i can have a look at their setup ..2017 series 7. I'm a little new to a lot of this so please excuse my newbie answers.
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### Author:  [@baqwas](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/baqwas)
#### Post date: [11 June 2019 14:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/samsungtv-flow-help-please/12055/6 "2019-06-11T14:25:07Z")
Hello,
Slightly off-topic here but please note that SamsungTV calls home (_viz._ [cdn.samsungcloudsolution.com](http://cdn.samsungcloudsolution.com)) every FIVE seconds. I have openHAB working with SamsungTV (to get sufficient details including current channel, volume level, etc.) but your question has spurred me into digging further with Node-RED for the interface. I don't know whether the openHAB can share their interface details but a simple **ping** node would be my first start.
One other point, SamsungTV identifies itself as _localhost_ (sic) and one needs the API to change it to something else that some routers will not complain about.
King regards.
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### Author:  [@sucram](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/sucram)
#### Post date: [11 June 2019 14:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/samsungtv-flow-help-please/12055/7 "2019-06-11T14:26:55Z")
Thanks for info baqwas , will look into this. Thanks
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### Author:  [@geani](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/geani)
#### Post date: [7 July 2020 08:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/samsungtv-flow-help-please/12055/8 "2020-07-07T08:25:15Z")
have you got any further with this, having the same issue where node-red display shows the change but state of tv doesn't change
thx