Connecting your Smart TV to Home Assistant for automation
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2021
- In this video I'll show you how to connect your Smart TV to Home Assistant and give you some ideas on how you can make your home smarter through automations.
You can find all the televisions that are supported in the Home Assistant Integrations guide: www.home-assistant.io/integra... - Навчання та стиль
Imaginative and clear. Well done.
Great explanation, thank you! I didn't know about the light either.
I now lower the shutters when I start and of course raise them again or not, depending on whether it is day or night.
When I take a break or when I turn off the TV, I slowly turn the light on according to your idea. My family is thrilled! 🙂
I'm glad to hear it! Getting the family on board is important when it comes to home automation ideas 😁
Great tips on trying to reduce late night TV! We've all experienced that 2am Boxy video binge
Really glad I found your channel :) Love smart home tech and HA good luck with the channel
Thanks mate. I'm a big fan of your channel too!
Great tips.Looking forward to how you use the aqara cube!
This stuff is sooo coooolll
Nice video, Do you have a guide for the led strip automation ?
The cube is sick dude
It's a bit of fun, but sometimes can be frustrating!
I have some automations for my LG OLED TV making life easier. Especially in regards to managing my 5yo sons TV habit. I have created a switch for situations when he has misbehaved, when turned on it will turn the TV off once the TV launch is registered. Another one would be hard limiting the volume to 10 as we have also a baby sleeping in the room next to us. This way the volume can not be set above 10. Last one I like very much is where I have a slider to define the minutes when the TV shuts down. This way my son won't catch me with the smartphone in my hand, and starts connecting dots.
Awesome automations! Those are things parents everywhere would get value from, thanks for sharing
To switch to the doorbell camera is a nice idea.
thanks!
No problem!
Hi. Looking to buy a new TV. Choice is between LG & Samsung. Are they both fully-featured HA-wise, or is one a better choice than the other? Assume at least 2021 versions or whatever Amazon/Richer are offering! Many thanks
thanks alot for the information , just asking if i could make alexa control the smart tv instead of my smartphone ! would that possible
Is there a way to send a command to GoogleTV (or FireTV) like "button_up", "button_home", ... so that HomeAssistant can "press" the buttons like I would press it on the remote?
Because I have multiple things I would love to automate.
E.g. that it connects to my headphones with one command from HomeAssistant which would trigger multiple button presses after each other.
Or close all apps completely.
How do you handle competing entities? What I mean is HA has both my Sony Bravia TV as a Device/Entity as well as my Google TV. The Google TV is what I stream on as the Native Bravia interface was getting really laggy. So I'm not sure if I run the automation on one or the other or how to tell it to stream on the Google TV and not the actual TV if that makes sense.
This has been really helpful. Thanks for this. I have a LG WebOS TV too so it did just as you described. Is there any way of showing images on the TV? I'm looking to pull my doorbell image to my tv when it is rung. My doorbell stores an image in my HA when it is rung but I can't seem to get that image to the TV. Any chance of doing video on this kind of thing?
That's not something I've personally tried to do, but take a look at this thread - it seems to be similar to your use case. Let me know if it helps!
community.home-assistant.io/t/display-image-on-chromecast/78349/17
Great video, however how do you get it to go back to the last show/media that you were watching, say after 30 seconds of viewing the door cam?
Has anything changed on integrating the LG WebOS TV since you created this video?
Hi, could you tell me how to make ESPHome send three numbers (channels) to the TV, please?
I've been looking for days on this and haven't found anything.
Thanks.
12 month old Sony Bravia (I think it's with Google TV) - had to remove integration, as while integrated with Home Assistant it (the TV) would randomly "reboot" - up to 3 times a day :p
This is the Sony Bravia TV integration
That's weird! The Samsung integration mis-reports the TV turning on too. I had an automation set up in the bedroom to turn the lights to 30% brightness when the TV switched on. I was not popular when the lights turned on at 3am, because the integration reported the TV as on even though it wasn't 🤣
@@HomeAutomationGuy
Yes - I’ve recently set up the Samsung TV integration with a new Samsung … the TV “restarts” often and my automation triggers my light dimming most unhelpfully when not actually appropriate! In frustration, I’ve turned the automation off! Unable to find a fix on HA!
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Hi. How can I do that on a FireTV? It seems that it's impossible to identify PLAY/PAUSE on automations on HA.
how can i do this: set the volume level automatically whenenver an app like youtube / netflix is opened.
How to add a nest doorbell camera device to HA?
Does the lights on when pausing work when using Netflix work? The attributes don’t seem to update for Netflix apps. Works for other things fine though
Unfortunately the Netflix developers haven't correctly created their app to report back the status properly. I'm hoping they fix it one day soon as I have the same problem
@home auto guy: did you have to configure something else in Google Home app for chromecast nest doorbell? If I run the automation, all I see on the TV is a cast symbol that pops up. Any idea thx
I had to add the Nest doorbell to my Home Assistant first using the Google Nest integration
Does the 'Person detected at Front Door' notification on the TV require a chromecast or can it work by HA sending it directly to WebOS?
I send it directly to WebOS with my older LG TV. Not sure if it still works on newer models
I'm new to home assistant. Now looking for solution for my android tv not available if i want to turn on without remote control. I will try yml configuration later.
У меня в квартире два роутера и два провайдера естественно, возможно ли в моих условиях работа с Home assistant?
After watching this I have managed to get my LG WebOS TV connected. Only trouble I have is it takes a long time (30sec) after I switch it on before it registers in HA so the Dim Lights automation is delayed accordingly. Any idea why this may be happening? When I turn the TV off it registers in HA immediately. Thanks.
The same thing happens to me (mine takes about 5-10 seconds, not 30 luckily). I think the TV needs to boot up before it tells HA that it's on, which takes some time. No idea how to fix it sorry
If you are using wifi then changing to ethernet may help as it did for me
here's something to think about: does a term like "out of the box" even apply to downloaded software?
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I can't see how you got the YAML file up so that it can be edited. I did find CONFIGURATION.YAML is this the one to edit?
Yes, that's the one.
Sea of thieves mentioned. Subbed
I absolutely love it!
wake on lan must be connected TV with ethernet right or can we wake through WLAN?
On my TV, which is a few years old, it only works on Ethernet.
I believe newer versions have an option in the TV settings to enable Wake On LAN over WiFi. Take a look at these screenshots for more information:
support.quanticapps.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005985729-How-to-turn-on-my-LG-Smart-TV-using-the-App-WebOS-
@@HomeAutomationGuy Thanks man. It worked via WLAN like charm.
I've been trying to help my folks get an automation set involving the lights based on play state like demonstrated in this video, but I'm afraid although my device shows an entity to determine if the device is paused or playing, nothing is able to trigger. Has anyone else encountered this issue?
Try creating a template sensor that reads the state of the attribute or entity and use that to trigger the automation
@@HomeAutomationGuy Thank you so much! I just recently had a Conbee dongle shipped out there way and look forward to implementing the methods you mentioned.
i am new to home automation. Is it possible to control other google devices with a "Chromecast with google tv" remote?
You can control the TV that the Google TV is plugged into, you can control the volume, inputs and power (On/Off)
What I don't like is that I can't find documentation for configuring this at all. I have a different TV (Philips, it has a proper integration), different apps on it and live in a different part of the world, so we have local apps. How would I know what to write into the customize, sources section? Just try and guess? Nothing happened when I added what you showed with its IP and MAC address in place. 🤷♀ Nice... My config.yaml is screwed now too despite going back to a backup from over an hour ago. WTF.
I was able to find information for my TVs in the Home Assistant forums
Nice. However your last example with the switching to the doorbell feed no longer works in HA's last version. You might want to update your video or mention this.
It still works fine for me, I just tested it on Home Assistant 2021.12.4
Weird. On my tv it no longer shows the stream but a home assistant logo instead..
Oh wait that was on version 12.3. Maybe it's fixed in 4...
You said you could turn the light up if you used the remote to pause the tv, I can find a way to determine if anything is playing on my Web OS tv, is this something you have figured out how to do?
Unfortunately webOS doesn't support play/pause natively. I now use a Google TV to play the media on my TV and it correctly reports the play/pause state and can be used in your automations.
@@HomeAutomationGuy Thanks for the info mate.
This is the conclusions that I have come to as well, its disappointing that we can't get more details out of the TV. it would be nice to see in more details what info you can get from all the apps using google TV. this is one thing that I find disappointing about home assistant, lots of information but lots of holes in that information.
it looks like Apple TV can not only report play/pause from apps but also the name of the channel that uploaded the currently playing UA-cam video. this can be used with the UA-cam API to display the thumbnail of the currently playing video.
Can you get that info out of the google TV intergration?
@@HomeAutomationGuy really informative video, thank you! I have setup a Lights automation after watching this tutorial, I am using Chromecast Ultra and it works with everything apart from Netflix, which is frustrating and I can figure out what is wrong.
The problem is that Netflix haven't properly written their application so it reports the correct Playing/Paused status. It frustrates me too and I hope they fix it one day 😥
@@HomeAutomationGuy Ahhhhh yes makes sense! Thank you.
is there an easier way?
I have a question, i am trying to get portal tv to work. any ideas
I am sorry, I am not familiar with that TV
is it possible to run automation based on the app we use?
It might be, but that would depend on the TV you are using and the capabilities. There is a "Source" attribute that might change based on the app you're using.
You skipped over the whole messages on the tv part. What do we need to do to have that happen? Is this brand specific?
My apologies! It works with LG WebOS TVs.
www.home-assistant.io/integrations/webostv/#notifications
wake on Lan magic packet, do you need to download this or anything ?
Nope. Just add it to the configuration.yaml file. I've heard rumours that it only works if you plug the TV into the network using a cable rather than WiFi, but I've never tested it myself. I hardwire my TV in
@@HomeAutomationGuy Indeed, wake on LAN is a functionality only available for LAN, a.k.a. wired network (ethernet). Wifi doesn't support this.
@@Flackon for newer LG models, it also support WoL via WiFi. Chances are good as long as the WoL is working properly at least from the official LG ThinQ app and your TV. If it does, then you can start to experiment with HA. I get it working having HA on a wired network LAN, having a bridge to the WiFi, and LG TV connected on that WiFi. Sometimes it does not turn on on the first WoL packet, so i just make a simple Repeat-Until automation within HA with delay, so i'm able to send few WoL packets until the TV finally turn on.
Android ADB no longer supported in HA?
I'm not sure, I've never tried
It would be nice if one could take it one step further and integrate with voice control (then you put the TV remote permanently away). Any thoughts?
That's definitely something that can be done. I don't personally like using my voice to control my TV, which is why I've not set it up. I find it hard to yell over the TV audio and have the voice assistant clearly understand me and the remote control is just so easy and intuitive to use which makes it easy for guests to understand
Would be a pain if someone in the movie you're watching says "switch off the tv!" and your automation decides to react on that. 🙃 But TTS to the tv could be useful to e.g. tell me tomorrow's weather in those first 30 seconds after switching on the tv and waiting for the streaming box to boot up and initiate.
What about Samsung Smart TV?
What happen to your channel logo
I am not sure what you mean - what happened to it?
@@HomeAutomationGuy now ok ... but on that day i cont c your photo in your youtube channel, it came like black image.
Hi,
I followed your instructions on integrating my LG TV with Home Assistant, but it doesn't seems to work. I checked the configuration to validate that it's correct to which it states its valid but the integration doesn't come up in home assistant after I do a restart. Please Help 🤦🏾♂️
Oh no, that's a shame! Does it prompt you to pair it with home assistant?
@@HomeAutomationGuy Nope it hasn't prompt me to pair with Home Assistant. I even start the whole process all over and still nothing happened 🤦🏾♂️
I'd start by checking that the "enable LG Connect Apps" feature is set in Network settings of the TV.
@@HomeAutomationGuy I have checked it and its all enabled. I am going to give it another try tomorrow because I have been trying it all afternoon brain's are fried now 🤦🏾♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣
Don't use static IP's if possible -, use DHCP reservations instead.
What's that for?
@@jorgewhite3315 You let a machine pick up its IP via DHCP, then set it as reserved (in most systems thats the proceedure) - so the machines IP is in the DHCP tables on the router. The machine itself doesn't have any special settings, no IP directly set.
Any time that machine connects to the network (from a power cycle or whatever) it'll ask the DHCP server for an address - the DHCP server will always serve the same IP based on the client machines MAC address, which is burned on to the network interface chip from the factory and never changes.
The biggest advantage is that its all managed on the router, instead of on separate machines. Other advantages include the ability for it to pick up the DNS server / gateway info from DHCP on the router.
Why not add the yaml string to the description to make life easier for us...?
Unfortunatly Google Home does not have routines which could be triggered by start playback or turning ON or OFF the Google TV. What a shame for google.