Disabling Samsung display game bar popups

I recently purchased the 32" Odyssey OLED G8 UHD Gaming Monitor¹. My major gripe with this monitor is the frustrating menus and popups. Especially the Game Mode "quick settings" that will cover the bottom half of your screen on EVERY startup.

I found this guide² on GitHub and will summarise it here, as well as include some extra steps it missed outlined in this forum thread³.

You'll need python installed since this is only possible with the service remote which does not come with the display.

Steps

1. Connect the monitor to your wi-fi
2. Get your monitors IP address and write it down
   1. Settings
   2. All Settings
   3. Connection
   4. Network
   5. Network Status
   6. IP Status
3. Create a new Python project on your system & install dependencies:

mkdir monitor-settings
cd monitor-settings
python -m venv env # Optional 
./env/bin/pip3 install "git+https://github.com/xchwarze/samsung-tv-ws-api.git#egg=samsungtvws[async,encrypted]"

4. Create script.py and add the following content, update the IP with your monitors IP:

import sys
import os
import time
from samsungtvws import SamsungTVWS

sys.path.append('../')
token_file = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)) + '/tv-token.txt'
tv = SamsungTVWS(host='192.168.X.X', port=8002, token_file=token_file)

info = tv.rest_device_info()

print(info)

tv.send_key("KEY_INFO")
time.sleep(0.3)
tv.send_key("KEY_FACTORY")

5. Run the script
6. Using the remote allow the connection
7. Navigate the service menu
   1. FMS
   2. FMS
   3. Factory Menu App
   4. Option
   5. MRT Option
   6. com.samsung/featureconf/game_bar.auto_launch_support_type
   7. FMS_AUTO_LAUNCH_NOT_SUPPORT
8. Turn the display off
9. Turn the display on
10. Disconnect your monitor from wi-fi

This should successfully disable the game bar popups on monitor startup/wake. If your monitor updates when you try to power back on you may need to run through these steps again.

It's extremely frustrating that this option is not a default toggle in the general settings. The panel on this display is excellent when gaming and ok for general purpose (text fringing 😭) but this menu, the fact there's apps & the terrible remote. It feels like I bought a shit smart TV with a really nice OLED panel.

I would not recommend this display to anybody for those reasons alone.

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