Recommend a Television that has a built in Alarm Clock?

[HappyDude20]

Twenty years ago I had a television that had a built in DVD player and alarm clock feature and this combo was incredible.

Every morning I would wake up to the TV turning on and automatically
playing whatever DVD was inside the build in DVD player. Most times I had TV show dvds such as Simpsons or Seinfeld and I gotta tell you, it’s a great way to wake up.

My 55 inch 4K Samsung Smart TV doesn’t have an alarm clock feature. If it did I would love it to automatically play the next Disney Plus episode or YouTube or whatever. It does however has a built in Sleep Timer but the only options are like ‘shut off in 30 minutes’ or ‘1 hour’ r ‘shut off in 2 hours’.

Point is, I hate that my iPhone is my alarm clock and don’t want to use an actual clock to wake me up.

 

[pshufd]

I use an iPad mini 2 as a clock on my desk. It could probably be programmed to play music too. Not sure about playing a video.

 

[velocityg4]

I'm not sure if any streaming service would even support this.

I'd think the way you'd have to do this is with a device that supports HDMI-CEC and wake timers. You could likely do this with a Raspberry Pi. A brief search says the Pi supports it (I just read the two line preview not the articles). Then setup a script to play videos through VLC. Perhaps some multimedia server program like Plex. You'll also need a home server loaded with videos.

Perhaps there is some application which works with the Raspberry Pi. Capable of working with some streaming services. Where a script would work.

 

[cdcastillo]

Not sure about making your tv play a DVD on waking up, but every major TV maker has a "wake up" function built in their tvs nowadays...

 

[HappyDude20]

I use an iPad mini 2 as a clock on my desk. It could probably be programmed to play music too. Not sure about playing a video.

I’m not wanting any iOS device as an alarm clock. Ideally the TV would serve as my alarm clock and throughout the days and nights would use my iPad for streaming stuff.

I’m willing to buy an old box TV just for use as an alarm clock. I just hate how heavy they are when compared to modern day flat screens.

I'm not sure if any streaming service would even support this.

I'd think the way you'd have to do this is with a device that supports HDMI-CEC and wake timers. You could likely do this with a Raspberry Pi. A brief search says the Pi supports it (I just read the two line preview not the articles). Then setup a script to play videos through VLC. Perhaps some multimedia server program like Plex. You'll also need a home server loaded with videos.

Perhaps there is some application which works with the Raspberry Pi. Capable of working with some streaming services. Where a script would work.

This is doing way too much and am totally not down. I still own a ton of DVDs so think dvds will be the best route for me to take.

Not sure about making your tv play a DVD on waking up, but every major TV maker has a "wake up" function built in their tvs nowadays...

This is what is so upsetting about my 55 inch Samsung smart TV. Netflix is so slow on it and so is Hulu, and there’s only a sleep timer function in the settings. I’m down to get an AppleTV 4K for it but that’s just for streaming purposes.

For this alarm clock feature I wanna set up I’m thinking maybe there’s a DVD player that has an alarm clock function that will automatically turn on my flat screen screen and that’s how I get this to work.

But I gotta tell you all, waking up to the sound of the Simpsons or King of the Hill is just wonderful.

 

[cdcastillo]

I'm not 100% sure but I could bet your Samsung TV has an timer for turning itself on, have you checked your manual?

Problem is, most probably it would tune itself to what was playing last time you turned it off.

 

[HappyDude20]

I'm not 100% sure but I could bet your Samsung TV has an timer for turning itself on, have you checked your manual?

Problem is, most probably it would tune itself to what was playing last time you turned it off.

I’m okay with the last thing you mentioned. I’m going through the settings but don’t see anything for an alarm feature. Only sleep timer. I feel like the Samsung smart tv software is boilerplate across all their current television offerings.