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No-one forces you to connect your "smart" TV to the network... You can just use it as a "dumb" TV and connect anything on it (such as a Raspberry Pi) to do the "smart" things. I have an old Toshiba smart TV from >7 years ago that I bought second-hand for 100€, and while it is doing great as a dumb TV I would never connect it to the network considering there have been no firmware update for years and that the current one is likely affected by un-fixable security holes !


Just wait till your Samsung TV phones in to your Samsung mobile to share wifi credentials. It's zero click convenience!



As you control your pi, you can control ethernet over hdmi




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