After running the application, the TV is rooted and you can connect via Telnet after a reboot of the TV. Most of the firmware updates don’t bring new features to your TV anyway.įor rooting you just need an USB stick with the files on it to install the root via an application which is available as soon as you insert the USB into your TV. Also make sure to disable firmware updates in the service menu to keep your TV rooted. In this menu I found out that I have a quite new MST firmware version and therefore need to follow the currently newest rooting guide for F-series MST versions. I started with getting my current firmware version through the service menu by pressing INFO, MENU, MUTE, POWER in order while the TV is turned off. Consider reading the wiki pages for your TV series. I’m going to explain the rough steps for my specific TV model to give you an idea of how this works. There is also a forum for getting support from other members as well as some more instructions. You can find an extensive introduction in the wiki. It’s allowing you to root your TV and run customized software extensions and applications.

SamyGO is a partially open sourced project for extending the features of Samsung Smart TVs. As I already use SamyGO since two years now, I want to tell you about this great project. This way I’m able to watch the recorded movies on any other device. But as a developer I of course want to customize every little detail - and this was when I found SamyGO.Īmong other things, I used it to be able to record to my Synology NAS. When I bought my Samsung TV ( F6470) around five years ago, I was pretty happy about all the smart features.

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