mbillow/localthings
Control your Samsung appliances from Home Assistant over your home network, with no cloud account.
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 5 days ago, with 50 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Enables local network control of Samsung appliances from Home Assistant without requiring a cloud account or internet connection.
- Ensures privacy and reliability by operating entirely over the local network, avoiding data transmission to Samsung servers.
- Use for integrating Samsung washers, dryers, refrigerators, and air conditioners into Home Assistant with real-time updates via push or polling.
- Use for managing multi-unit air conditioners and complex appliances with multiple subdevices through a unified local interface.
- Use for troubleshooting and extending support by capturing diagnostics and directly reading or writing appliance resources via Home Assistant.
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
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- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
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From the README
Control your Samsung appliances from Home Assistant over your home network, with no cloud account.
LocalThings connects Home Assistant to Samsung washers, dryers, refrigerators, air conditioners, ovens and other appliances that work with the SmartThings app. It talks to each appliance on your local network.
What you see depends on what each appliance reports. Typical controls and sensors include power, program or mode selection, start, pause and stop, temperatures and setpoints, time remaining and finish time, door and child-lock state, energy use, filter status and alarms.
Most Samsung appliances from about 2022 onward work, and so do some earlier washers, air conditioners and wall ovens that use an older local interface. See Older appliances on TCP 8888. Setup detects which interface an appliance has, and tells you if it finds none.
If an appliance sets up but LocalThings doesn't recognize it, or a control is missing, Home Assistant shows a notice asking for a diagnostics download. That download is usually all the maintainers need to add support. See Reporting a capability gap.
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