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Home Assistant /19 September 2026 / 6 min read

How I Moved My Samsung Washer from SmartThings to LocalThings in Home Assistant

I moved one Samsung washer-dryer's Home Assistant monitoring from SmartThings to LocalThings. Here are the commands, entity changes, template, and automation I used—and why I kept the SmartThings app.

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