Alarmo - How to turn on Samsung TV (for Noob) and play media

Third party integrations
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Hi guys, sorry, did a search, but still stuck.
I’m trying to turn on a samsung tv when the alarm is triggered, I’m just not sure how.
I can see that I might need to use media_player.turn_on…
I’ve put the following in and it works!

  • service: media_player.turn_on
    entity_id: media_player.lounge_tv
    data:

So, the question I have is:
Q: How to I then set the tv to play media. I would love for it to play the camera in the house, so that any intruders see they are being recorded.

Can anybody point a noob in the right direction? Many thanks in advance.

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People will need to know what cameras you are using and what the integration is.

You presumably have an integration for the TV or you wouldn’t be able to turn it on.

Can the TV normally stream video from the cameras without HA? It’s not something I could do with mine.

When you post code, please could you do it as preformatted text (</> in the toolbar) otherwise it’s hard to follow. it should look something like:

sequence:
  - action: media_player.turn_on
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.uk_2k_android_tv
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Thanks Tom. Sorry about the paste.

Ok, so I’ve got a Samsung S95C tv and Reolink cameras, one in media room is a RLC-1240A, with fixed IP address.

I’ve also got a Reolink RLN8-410 NVR.

I haven’t tried to ‘push’ an image from reolink to the TV, but I suppose you are right, that’s something that i should get working first.

I’ve also got a Nvidia Shield Pro plugged in to the TV, so I think I was going to look to ‘cast’ the image from the Reolink camera to the TV.

Code that I have currently is:

service: media_player.turn_on
entity_id: media_player.lounge_tv
data: []

Thanks again for helping.