Reviving a deprecated smart washing machine's network control with Claude

A user spent about 2 hours with Claude successfully reconnecting a 10-year-old legacy smart washing machine, whose support was dropped by Samsung, back to SmartThings, restoring remote control, cycle selection, and dryer linkage functions while preventing premature device replacement.

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Added 2026-10-31 · originally published 2026-10-24

Steps

1Prepare the legacy Samsung washing machine that needs network control restored (applicable to models from 2014-2018 using the same communication protocol).
2Visit the project GitHub repository to get the relevant code and instructions (https://github.com/McArhony/smartthings-samsung-drc-washer).
3Use Claude to assist in writing or adapting code, handling configuration issues, and completing debugging within Claude's usage limits.
4Successfully integrate the washing machine into SmartThings to achieve cycle controls like temperature and spin speed, and link it with the dryer to automatically match drying programs.

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I have an older Samsung smart washing machine (model [enter washing machine model or year], manufactured between 2014-2018) for which official network and SmartControl support has been dropped. Following the approach of the smartthings-samsung-drc-washer project on GitHub, please guide me on how to use [Claude/AI] to write or adapt the code to reconnect it to the SmartThings system and restore remote control functionality.

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