I have a Samsung The Frame 65″ TV model LS03B (65″). As an accessory for this TV model, you can buy an automatic mount that allows you to rotate the entire TV on the wall using the remote control or phone.
The TV rotates by holding the “Multiview” button on remote control. On a TV in a vertical screen position, simultaneous views fit better one on top of the other. For example, thanks to Multiview, you can watch TV and browse the Internet at the same time or watch YouTube and play on the console at the same time.
In the case of a mobile phone, you can control the rotation of the TV on the wall by simply rotating the phone – when the phone screen changes position and the view on the phone rotates, the entire TV on the wall will rotate in the same way. Thanks to the vertical screen position, you can watch vertically recorded videos or vertical photos on the entire screen on a large TV without black bars of an empty screen on the sides.
The advantage of the Samsung The Frame TV is that it is very flat and has such mounts that it practically almost adheres to the wall. Additionally, thanks to the interchangeable frames that have different colors and structures, e.g. wood, and the screen saver that has an “art” mode and allows you to display images when the TV is off, the entire TV looks like a picture on the wall. In fact, the TV regulates the brightness of the image and displays the image on the wall so well that you can mistake it for a real image.
TV can be so thin because a large part of the electronics is located in an additional box “One connect box” in which all the sockets are located. Only one thin cable from One connect box is led to the display itself, which is on the wall. The standard wall mount of the Samsung The Frame TV does not allow the TV to be rotated on the wall and it works as hanger only.
It has the advantage that the TV sticks out from the wall by only 4mm. In reality gap seams to be bigger because the TV has cutouts at the edges. However, gaps are smaller when a frame is placed on the TV.
Auto-Rotate Wall Mount for Samsung Frame TV 65″ LS03B is SAMSUNG VG-ARAB43WMT 55″-65″
It Fits my Samsung The Frame LS03B 65” TV and some Samsung QN series TVs of similar dimensions (65″, 55″)
The disadvantage of this solution is that the automatic swivel mount increases the distance of the TV from the wall to 25mm (installation without a mounting frame on a solid wall) or to 30mm (installation with a mounting frame on plasterboard walls, etc.). So one of the main advantages of the Samsung The Frame TV, which is that it only slightly protrudes from the wall, disappears when using the mount, especially if the TV is hung in a place where it can also be seen from the side (as in my case).
I decided to install automatic rotating mount for the Samsung Frame TV 65″ LS03B, but so that it does not protrude from the wall by more than 1 mm more than the standard mount for this TV. I decided to make a recess in the wall behind the TV in which the rotating mechanism will fit. For this to be possible, 3 conditions must be met:
1) The wall must be very flat without local bulges so that the TV does not collide with the wall when it rotates.
2) The bottom of the recess must be perfectly parallel to the wall surface so that after mounting the TV is not tilted, does not touch the wall on either side and so that the TV does not collide with the wall when it rotates.
3) The original mounting of the rotating TV mount Samsung The Frame has a cable guide system that protects the cable from breaking off when the TV rotates. The place where the cable is connected to the TV moves with the rotation in relation to the mount. Part of this cable mounting system is a guide that is glued to the back of the TV and is over 1 cm thick. The niche would have to be very wide to fit also these moving elements or the cable needs to be routed in a different way.
I started by removing the frame from the TV and marking the place where it hangs on the factory mount. Then I took the TV off and marked the place where the rotating mount should be according to the dimensions given in the instruction. I have a tunnel for the cables in the wall so they are not visible.
I cut plaster on the wall where the niche is supposed to be. The dimensions of the niche are 53.5 cm (width) by 45.5 cm (height). The niche needs space at the top to insert the rotating bracketmount before lowering it onto the brackets on the wall. At the bottom, I left no space for the factory plastic element for running cables because I did not intend to use it.
I dug in a hole about 5 cm deep
I have prepared places for cables – one cable for One connect box, and the other cable for auto rotation mount power supply.I leveled depth difference with a 5mm thick vinyl floor plate. Finished recess for Samsung automated rotation mount for The Frame LS03B 65″ TV
The cable holes will allow me to run the cables through a tunnel in the wall in an invisibly manner. And most importantly, they will allow me to run the cable from the TV directly to the back through the hole in the swivel mount. The cable will be run to the back very close to the axis of rotation of the mount and the point where it is connected to the TV, so it will hardly have to move when the TV is turned on the wall. Additionally, I will leave a loop of the cable directly under the mount just in case, so that the cable has a loose reserve.
According to instruction, in this way, the cable should be run from the TV under the swivel mount and later routed through the plastic elements on the TV and in the mount itself, which are not in the picture because I will not be using them.
This is how I routed the cable through the swivel bracket
Wall mount test without TV:
TV installed
I don’t know how to control the TV rotation in the 2024 version of Samsung The Frame (LS03D) because the “Multiview” button has disappeared from remote.