Just want to jump on the bandwagon here in hoping for an updated Samsung Binding one day. I have a 2016 Model K TV as well, and would really like a better solution to controlling and possibly polling the TV status.
Right now I can get some basic things like ON/OFF, Volume Up/Down and Mute done via scripts and rules found here in the forums. But its not a pretty solution and still no way to actually check the status of TV that I know of.
Most of the info on that stuff can be found here:
I also did learn that my model K tv does support wake on lan support as well, and I found I can turn on the TV both via exec and a script or by sending a wake on lan signal to the TV.
I have not been able to get a SleeponLan to work, but can turn it off via the exec and script.