What are widgets for Samsung Smart TV, where to download and how to install them?

A Smart TV widget is an application that provides a specific function. These can be simple tasks, such as displaying the time on an icon, or a more complex program, like a chat window. Widgets greatly simplify a number of processes: authorization in the system, quick access to a part of a menu or an application. They come in the form of a virtual keyboard, etc.

Assigning Widgets for Samsung Smart TV

When a user is looking for one or another widget for his Samsung TV, he is interested not only in how to install this application correctly and quickly, but also in its purpose. According to their purpose, all developed widgets are classified as follows:

1. Services designed to deliver videos of the user’s choice of VOD.
2. Resources for providing IPTV services .
3. Navigation, news, weather and other information services.
4. Various gaming applications and services.
5. Educational sites.
6. Applications that allow you to watch 3D movies and work in high resolution (4K).
7. Social networks and platforms such as Twitter or YouTube.
8. Clients that give access to videos on various topics.
9. Services that provide text, voice and video communications over the Internet (IP-telephony). For example, the Skype platform.

Games for Samsung Smart TV are also a popular category of applications among smart TV users: https://youtu.be/8cpuooDdJFI

Widgets are plentiful, so you can install all the apps you need on your Samsung Smart TV and have all the features you need at your fingertips.

Pedestal Winning Widgets for Samsung Smart TV

Every month the number of widgets is growing inexorably, but among the whole stream there are several special programs for Smart TV that have managed to fall in love with users for their functionality and convenience:

1. exfs.net . Widget for smart TV, however, like the site, allows you to watch movies in high quality. In this widget, movies are categorized. It provides a wide selection of modern cinema of Russian and foreign production.
2. GetsTV . The widget makes it possible to simply forget about analog television. It allows you to watch a wide variety of TV channels without a subscription or payment. Here there are not only basic channels, but also those that transmit cable television. GetsTV also provides a database consisting of both old and new series and films.
3. forkplayer . In fact, this is a browser for TVs with Smart TV. This widget allows you to search through the Internet for movies and other information for online viewing. The list of sites is constantly updated. You can also watch TV channels, listen to music and sing karaoke.
4. sport video box . This is a widget for Samsung Smart TV that collects news and videos from most online sports sites and structures them by sport, showing them to the user. This app is for true amateurs, it has both matches and articles, interviews with athletes, TV shows about each sport, etc.

FORKplayer for Samsung Smart TVs: https://youtu.be/LWAc_IeAp8c XSMART – widget for SMART TV: Samsung & LG (installation and setup): https://youtu.be/P01X_B8T1rw

How to Install Widgets on Samsung Smart TV

Many Samsung TVs have at their disposal plasma panels with Smart TV function. This generation of technology already has built-in standard applications. But if they are not enough, then the user can always resort to installing unofficial free widgets.

Where can I download

Despite the official position of Samsung, which is aimed at convincing users of the reasonableness and safety of downloads from the official
Samsung Apps store , most Runet users prefer to install third-party widgets on Samsung Smart TV. They are often easy to use, visually pleasing, and intuitive.

Standard step-by-step installation of applications on a Samsung Smart TV with photo and video instructions

Through the Smart TV menu (going through the red button on the remote control), we type the name of the widget in the search box. We click the search icon and follow the pop-up instructions that are already provided on your TV.
When you’re done, exit the site or app where you downloaded. New widgets are displayed in bookmarks.
If something went wrong and the application did not install, you can try to transfer it to a USB flash drive and install the widget from it.

Installation using a flash drive

This option is not suitable for all TV models. Samsung 6 Series or B allows you to do this. To download a widget from a flash drive, you must first create a separate folder on it and unpack the downloaded archive with widgets there. Let’s describe the process of preparing a flash drive:

• Perform a complete cleanup of all files on the flash drive, i.e. format it by selecting FAT32 format. This can be done in several ways.
  • The first way: insert the USB flash drive into the computer, double-click on the “Computer” icon on the desktop and, by right-clicking on the desired drive, select “Format …”.
  • The second way: insert a flash drive into a PC, download the FAT32 FORMAT program here – https://fat32-format.en.softonic.com, run it and, having indicated the desired drive in the first field, press the “Start” button.
• On a formatted flash drive, create a directory called userwidget . This folder will be the repository for widgets that you download from the Internet.

Sammy Widgets Samsung: https://youtu.be/29cUwYJ2EAk

Just download the necessary widgets from the Internet and throw them into this folder. There is no need to unpack archives uploaded to the userwidget directory.

Next, insert the USB flash drive into the TV’s USB port and turn it on. The downloaded widget should appear in the Smart TV menu list. The operation of a third-party widget is possible only when the media is connected. Installing widgets from a flash drive on Samsung Smart TV: https://youtu.be/jpTTeT4iru8

Installation via IP address

The action plan for Samsung TV models of the B, C, D, E series is as follows:

1. We press the Smart HUB button on the remote control, and then the “A” button (it is red).
2. In the “Samsung Account” field, enter the develop login . The password value does not need to be specified. It is saved in the system and will be added automatically. And then press the “Login” button:
3. An icon labeled “develop” will appear in the lower left corner of the screen.
4. Press the “Tools” button on the remote control. Go to the “Settings” section, then to the “Developer” section.
5. After accepting the terms of the agreement, you need to select the subsection “Setting the server IP address”. Enter the IP address of the developer’s server, which is listed on the widget’s official website.
6. Go back to the Development section, and click User Application Sync.
7. If the previous steps are correct, the installation starts. The new widget should appear in your TV’s menu list.

Video instructions for installing widgets for Samsung Smart TV E series can be found in this video: https://youtu.be/WYZ34cExxU4?t=19

In TVs of other models, the principle of installing widgets is similar. The fundamental differences can always be found in the instructions for a particular model.

The process of installing widgets on a Samsung Smart TV F-series is somewhat different: https://youtu.be/nLYZ_vMTf0k

When creating an account in the “E-mail. P.” we write
develop , and in the second field we set the password –
sso1029dev!

For Samsung H series TVs, the installation of widgets is the same as above. The only thing is that after switching to Smart HUB, you need to put the cursor on any application and hold down the cross button on the remote control until the menu appears. And then we select IP Seeting, etc. J-series TVs and later do not allow manual installation of widgets. They can only be downloaded through 
Samsung Apps .

Common Connection Mistakes

There are several major problems when the widget is not installed by Samsung Smart TV. Usually this:

• download failure;
• installation interruption;
• lack of response when clicking on the widget;
• problems that are difficult to track down.

Solutions to the problem:

1. Check the Internet connection (when the flow of information is interrupted, it could be partially lost, or the download itself was interrupted).
2. If there is a router, connect the RJ45 cable directly to the TV.
3. Check application license. It is guaranteed to be licensed if you downloaded it from an official source.
4. Try to install again, but through a flash drive.

How to properly install widgets for Samsung Smart TV – full version: https://youtu.be/suPZoaD1xYQ Widgets are very different, for every taste – from simple auxiliary programs to full-fledged games. Now you have become familiar with the concept of widgets and know why Samsung Smart TV needs them and how to install them correctly.