ConnectionFailure in FrameTV

[chiappone]

I am wondering if there is something special that needs to happen here, I always receive a ConnectionFailure when trying any methods against my FrameTV. I have validated the IP address but still no luck?

[xchwarze]

Two different things happen at the same time:
A) Samsung does not give any type of documentation and all this is done with reverse engineering
B) Samsung doesn't want to use any of this anymore. The idea would be for all users to migrate to SmartThings and when everyone adopts it, Samsung will surely do the same.

At the moment the only non-cloud alternative would be to continue doing reverse looking for alternatives

[chiappone]

Not sure I'm following, are you saying that this software no longer works?

[xchwarze]

The explanation was for you to understand the panorama. Everything in this and all such implementations is reverse engineered.
I don't think as much as disappear since a non-cloud alternative will always be needed, at least for some corporate use cases.
But if some functionalities can be broken or even disappear.
In this case, an analysis would have to be done to see what happened.
Analysis that I can not do because I do not have a TV where it fails.
I'm assuming you have a TV running Tizen 6.5 or higher where Samsung seems to have changed or removed the service used for this.

[xchwarze]

seems the same case as #108

[chiappone]

I see, I have the 2020 FrameTV, would that have the latest software that potentially breaks this functionality? When I try the encrypted connection I get a response with put in a PIN but no pin shows up on the TV.

[chiappone]

By the way this is the respone I get when I go to this endpoint http://TV_IP:8001/api/v2/ if it helps at all.

{
"device": {
"FrameTVSupport": "true",
"GamePadSupport": "true",
"ImeSyncedSupport": "true",
"Language": "en_US",
"OS": "Tizen",
"PowerState": "on",
"TokenAuthSupport": "true",
"VoiceSupport": "true",
"WallScreenRatio": "0",
"WallService": "false",
"countryCode": "US",
"description": "Samsung DTV RCR",
"developerIP": "0.0.0.0",
"developerMode": "0",
"duid": "uuid:a31e9299-b0f9-4e7a-82e1-4ac3c2680578",
"firmwareVersion": "Unknown",
"id": "uuid:a31e9299-b0f9-4e7a-82e1-4ac3c2680578",
"ip": "192.168.7.249",
"model": "20_NIKEM_FRAME",
"modelName": "QN65LS03TAFXZA",
"name": "[TV] The Frame",
"networkType": "wired",
"resolution": "3840x2160",
"smartHubAgreement": "true",
"type": "Samsung SmartTV",
"udn": "uuid:a31e9299-b0f9-4e7a-82e1-4ac3c2680578",
"wifiMac": "a4:30:7a:3a:47:fd"
},
"id": "uuid:a31e9299-b0f9-4e7a-82e1-4ac3c2680578",
"isSupport": "{"DMP_DRM_PLAYREADY":"false","DMP_DRM_WIDEVINE":"false","DMP_available":"true","EDEN_available":"true","FrameTVSupport":"true","ImeSyncedSupport":"true","TokenAuthSupport":"true","remote_available":"true","remote_fourDirections":"true","remote_touchPad":"true","remote_voiceControl":"true"}\n",
"name": "[TV] The Frame",
"remote": "1.0",
"type": "Samsung SmartTV",
"uri": "http://192.168.7.249:8001/api/v2/",
"version": "2.0.25"
}

[leosok]

Well I just got a Frame 2022, after seeing you're beautiful python package, and once the TV was an the wall and I started testing... well the grass is not green anymore. (What still works: starting apps; turning TV on/off). If there is any idea how one can help reverse-engineering it - I'm in!

[vandenbrakel]

Two different things happen at the same time: A) Samsung does not give any type of documentation and all this is done with reverse engineering B) Samsung doesn't want to use any of this anymore. The idea would be for all users to migrate to SmartThings and when everyone adopts it, Samsung will surely do the same.

At the moment the only non-cloud alternative would be to continue doing reverse looking for alternatives

Is there actually an ART cloud API for Smartthings? Anyone has info on that? Can't seem to find any info.

[NickWaterton]

The 2020 Frame TV art api still works, as does my 2021 (the TV is not encrypted though). From 2022, it’s gone though. There is no cloud api either. Smarthings has a way of doing it obviously, but it’s not exposed in the Smarthings api.

It’s as if Samsung doesn’t want anyone to mess with their api’s.

[NickWaterton]

Update:

As of the latest firmware (1622) on 2022+ Frame TV’s, the art mode web socket is back!

Some of the commands have been renamed, and some don’t work. I haven’t explored yet, as I only noticed today that the art mode Websocket was responding again.

[leosok]

Really exited to finally try. When I got my tv it was just gone.