Question

I’m trying to programmatically obtain some kind of unique device identifier from Samsung smart TV device.

The closest thing i found in documentation is GetDUID function on SAMSUNG-INFOLINK-NNAVI object, but it requires to provide mac address which confuses me as to what purpose of this function really is.

My question: how to obtain for example device serial number or other information that uniquely identifies it.

Answer 1

Accordingly to SamsungDForum the way to get the DUID (“Device Unique ID”) is:

In index.html add:

<object id='pluginNetwork' border=0 classid='clsid:SAMSUNG-INFOLINK-NETWORK'></object>
<object id='pluginObjectNNavi' border=0 classid='clsid:SAMSUNG-INFOLINK-NNAVI'></object>

And somewhere in your Javascriptː

var networkPlugin = document.getElementById('pluginNetwork');
var nnaviPlugin = document.getElementById('pluginObjectNNavi');
var deviceId = nnaviPlugin.GetDUID(networkPlugin.GetHWaddr());

I know that you’ve seen this, but I honestly don’t think that there’s other solution.

edit: Please check @IvanSolntsev answer if you’re looking for a way to get the device ESN (Electronic Serial Number).

edit2: Updated DUID official documentation link.