Smart Remote
Smart Remote lets you control your Samsung Smart TV, turning your Windows device into a remote control. Created by Dave Risney.
If you find a bug or otherwise need to contact the creator of Smart Remote, please send mail to contact@deletethis.net.
Connecting to Your TV
When Smart Remote starts or when you press the Refresh button in the upper app bar, Smart Remote looks for available TVs to which it can connect. To connect to a TV the following must be true:
- Your TV must be on.
- Your TV must be connected to the network.
- Smart Remote must be on that same network.
- Your TV must be a supported Samsung Smart TV.
- Your TV must be set to allow devices to connect.
- The first time, on your TV you must allow Smart Remote to connect.
When started, Smart Remote connects to the first TV it finds. All TVs it finds are listed in the upper app bar. To change the TV to which you want to send commands, select the corresponding TV from the upper app bar.
Customizing Button Appearance & Layout
To change the appearance or layout of the buttons, toggle the Customize button on in the lower app bar. Once in Customize mode you can perform the following:
- Change the color theme by pressing the Color button to bring up a menu of available color themes.
- Move buttons by pressing down, dragging and releasing a button inside of a dotted rectangle.
- Remove buttons by tapping a button, then pressing Remove from the lower app bar.
- Change button text by tapping a button, then pressing Edit from the lower app bar and typing the text that should appear in the button.
- Add buttons by selecting Add from the lower app bar, selecting the buttons you want to add from the scrolling list and then pressing the Add Buttons button.
- Add groups by selecting Add from the lower app bar, then pressing the Add Group button.
- Remove groups and rows by removing buttons from them and toggling off the Customize button. All empty groups and empty rows are removed.
Controlling Smart Remote with Keyboard
In release 3 of Smart Remote your keyboard keys are mapped to particular TV buttons.
To view or modify your current mapping, open the app bar, toggle the Customize button on, and then select the Edit Keyboard button.
In the list you can see all TV remote buttons.
If there are any keyboard keys assigned to that TV remote button you'll see it listed in parenthesis after the TV remote button.
If you want to remove a keyboard mapping, select the TV remote button from the list and press 'Remove Key'.
To add a keyboard mapping, select the TV remote button and press 'Add Key', then type the keyboard key you want to map to that TV remote button.
By default, the following keyboard mappings are present:
- The number keyboard keys map to the corresponding number TV remote buttons.
- The arrow keyboard keys map to the arrow TV remote buttons.
- The enter and escape keyboard keys map to the enter and exit TV remote buttons.
- The plus and minus keyboard keys map to the volume up and down TV remote buttons.
- The open and close bracket keyboard keys map to the channel up and down TV remote buttons.
- The a, b, c, and d keyboard keys map to the a, b, c, and d TV remote buttons.
Smart Remote has the Internet and Private Network capabilities for the following uses:
- To communicate with your Samsung device on the same network.
- To inform future application improvements by collecting anonymous application error and usage data.
The application error and usage data is collected via Google Analytics. No identifying information is collected other than the IP address which is masked to make it non-identifying. Non-identifying information collected includes application feature usage and application errors. For example, if the application is unable to connect to a particular TV, the model of that TV is collected. See the Google Analytics privacy policy for more information.