Sand
April 25, 2022, 8:39pm
1
Has anyone made a TV ad/TV commercial mute automation?
Many channels use the same intro and outro jingle. So I imagine an audio interface and some kind of signal analysis (not sure about the proper terminology here). My use case is for streaming channels on Android TV, but this approach could be source independent in principle at least.
I could find only two kind of related posts:
Chromecast Code:
Works for advertisements at start of video but not inside video.
alias: YT TV Mute Ad (Media Position)
description: ''
trigger:
- platform: numeric_state
entity_id: media_player.tv_chromecast
attribute: media_position
below: '0.1'
for:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 4
condition:
- condition: state
entity_id: media_player.tv_chromecast
state: YouTube
attribute: app_name
action:
- service: script.amplifier_volume_mute
data: {…
No did not look in to it much further
User87
(User87)
April 30, 2022, 12:32am
2
I’ve not had luck with distinguishing Firestick YT commercials yet. Chromecast works great.
It would be neat if Frigate recognized the [skip commercial] button or [Ad’s end in 3, 2, 1].
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Sand
April 30, 2022, 12:30pm
3
I did not know about Frigate and Google Coral. It looks very interesting, and not only for this use case. Thanks!
mrmute
October 7, 2024, 11:58pm
4
check this out to mute commercials → https://www.mrmute.tv/
Sand
October 8, 2024, 2:22pm
5
That looks very interesting thanks! I have however stopped watching flow tv altogether. But maybe someone else can use it (: