For the past 2 days, I've been getting an EXTREMELY annoying popup notification with small ding sound. This pops up about every 2 hours and disappears in 5 seconds. Impossible and just plain silly to not be able to read it. It does say something about thanks for being a customer and that smart hub collects data in some kind of way and that you can mess with settings in settings. I have never been able to read it as it leaves so fast. I just disconnected it from my network prior to posting this. Anyone knows what this is and most importantly, how to stop it?
I only hope that disconnecting it from my network will stop these messages but only thing I can find under privacy settings want me to agree to a bunch of check marks. I clicked none of them as I do not agree with their TOS for something that I rarely use. This TV is strictly as a monitor and have no antenna connected. I could completely disable smart hub as I may just have by disconnecting the network connection.
UPDATE EDIT: Taking the TV offline seemed to have fixed the issue but the loss of IP remote control via watch and home assistance is an annoying too. My plan is to Block the TV's mac address from any WAN (Wide Area Network) access via my router. I'll put it back on the network so that my home assistance setup still has access to it so I'll still have my remote control features but the TV and Samsung has no access to and can't make changes to my purchased and owned property. The TV is used as a monitor like I said so a dumb tv will be fine if I can't get it to work how I mentioned. I'll update if anyone even cares about that route.
UPDATE 2: I have since reconnected my TV back to the network and instantly saw the warning again. I then blocked WAN access of the TV via my router but it is connected to my LAN only. I then disconnected my phone offline to test and still have access to my Home Assistant features to the TV online as that is via a encrypted DDNS running through my own micro PC setup along with every other former cloud device I own. All controlled by me. Now Samsung can't break what they can't connect to.
This is infuriating. I tried blocking outgoing internet for the TV on my firewall but then I couldn't turn the TV on and off from Home my Assistant scripts and webhooks because they rely on the cloud based SmartThings integration. Just another bullet point in my increasingly long list of why to never buy another Samsung TV. Sony Bravia here I come!
Just so you know, I have home assistant and have sucessfully blocked my TV's mac address via my router from going online. It is still connected to my LAN which is the same as my home assistant. My home assistant is connected online via my own DDNS and encrypted connection. I have restored full home assistant controls from anywhere in the world while my TV itself is blocked from going online. I used my Asus router and they made it extremely simple to do.
I'm also getting this notification throughout the day. It even plays a little bell sound when it pops up. I cannot find any setting to disable notifications.
QN95B here, I get the popup but without any OK or close button. It just appears and disappears before I can finish reading it. Happens on all inputs, even HDMI
I turned it off! On the smart hub, arrow over to the left, then scroll/arrow down to connected devices or settings. Do NOT click on anything. You will see a notification bell. Arrow over to the bell and click once on it. A little box will pop up in upper right corner. It might say no new notifications but arrow up to the gear icon above the box and click on it. A screen will pop open. You can then uncheck the type of notifications you don't want, then click okay. You may have to turn the TV off (I had to do that.) and wait 30 seconds, turn TV back on and the annoying notification will be gone. I have the QN series but it should work pretty much the same on all with a smart hub.
