mbillow/localthings
Control your Samsung appliances from Home Assistant over your home network, with no cloud account.
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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…
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- LocalThings
- What it supports
- Built on open standards
- Install
- Add an appliance
- Per-device settings
- Known device behavior
- Restarting while an appliance is powered off
- When an appliance's IP address changes
- Older appliances on TCP 8888
- Starting an oven, range or microwave
- Multi-unit air conditioners
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What this repository does
Control your Samsung appliances from Home Assistant over your home network, with no cloud account.
Repository facts
- Owner
- mbillow
- Primary language
- Python
- Stars
- 943
- Forks
- 102
- Open issues + pull requests
- 87
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-06-30T21:30:14.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-11-07T06:48:26.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: coap-protocol, coap-server, custom-component, dtls, hacs, hacs-integration, home-assistant, home-automation, samsung, smartthings
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