Install a Home Assistant dashboard as a native app on a Samsung TV

The poster wanted a cleaner home screen on a 65-inch 2022 Samsung The Frame running Tizen 6.5, with no streaming box or mirroring. With Codex helping, they started from the open-source CleanFrame launcher, put the TV into Developer Mode pointed at their Mac, created Samsung author and distributor certificates, then signed and installed the launcher as a Tizen .wgt package. They used an undocumented, firmware-specific method from the CleanFrame project to make the Home button open it, saving the original settings and testing a restore first. Codex then adapted their existing HomeFlow dashboard for the TV: same pages and live Home Assistant data, plus arrow-key navigation and a visible focus highlight, packaged as a separate app in the launcher.

It works. The full dashboard runs on the TV and connects directly to Home Assistant, covering energy, cars and charging controls, robot vacuums, the mower, climate, music, cameras and alarm, and a live floorplan, all driven by the normal Samsung remote. Home returns to the launcher from Netflix and YouTube and survives their power-off routine. Getting the developer connection to work needed a full power cycle at the wall.

The Home-button override is experimental and depends on the TV model and firmware; keep a recovery backup and restore Samsung's Home settings before uninstalling. Commenters said the certificate and Developer Mode steps are the hard wall, and asked whether it survives firmware updates, which the poster did not answer.