Custom On Command for media_player: - platform: webostv

Configuration
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I am not sure if this is possible but I would like to be able to add a custom on command for my LG WebOS TV. I have added the media player to by configuration and that works fine once TV is on. Unfortunately, my TV doesn’t support wake on LAN so no use adding the mac: as this just gives me an on button that doesn; 't work. I have usually turn ON my TV using another raspberry pi connected via HDMI and HDMI CEC commands. This works perfectly. I know I can add a separate on switch using the below config which works fine but my question is, can I combine the 2 and add a custom ON command for the webostv media_player configuration? Basically add the power button back which adding mac: option adds but have it work by running a custom command?

switch:
   - platform: command_line
     switches:
      tv_rpi:
        command_on: ssh [email protected] "tvservice -o; echo on 0 | cec-client -s -d 1;tvservice -p"
        command_off: ssh [email protected] "tvservice -o; echo 'standby 0' | cec-client -s -d 1"
        command_state: ssh [email protected] "echo 'pow 0' | cec-client -s |grep 'power status:'"
        value_template: '{{ value == "power status: on" }}'

Paulio

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Hi,
maybe with https://home-assistant.io/components/media_player.universal/ ?

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@nxd4n Thank you so much, I finally got around to looking into this, It looked very complicated when I first looked at it and at the time when you replied I didn’t have time to look into it. Today after actually reading the universal media player setup page I found that the setup is very basic. I only had to add the one override command for power_on, the rest comes from the child entry. Then just hide the command line power_on switch I created and child media player and now everything is working perfectly just how I wanted it :smile: Thanks again.

Paulio

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Hey @nxd4n, do you know is there a way to add channel up & down controls to the universal player? I don’t see an option for it but would think it should be possible. I have setup custom switches for now but would be good to hide them and add this to the media player.

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No, I didn’t look further into it, I remapped nextTrack in media_player/braviatv.py to do a channel_up in place of media_next(). Dirty hack that will be overwritten at next update.

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Paulo, can you share your configuration set up for this.?
Thank you

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Hey @juan11perez, Yea sure. Bellow are the relevant bits I used for this. I just have an old Raspberry Pi 1 connected to my TV via HDMI cable to turn it on.

customize:
  switch.tv_rpi:
    hidden: true
  media_player.tv:
    hidden: true
	
	
media_player:
  - platform: webostv
    host: !secret tv_ip
    name: TV
    filename: webostv.conf
    customize:
      sources:
        - livetv
        - youtube
        - Plex

  - platform: universal
    name: Living Room TV
    children:
      - media_player.tv
    commands:
      turn_on:
        service: switch.turn_on
        data:
          entity_id: switch.tv_rpi

switch:
- platform: command_line
  switches:
    tv_rpi:
      friendly_name: TV Power On
      command_on: ssh [email protected] "tvservice -o; echo on 0 | cec-client -s -d 1"

Paulio

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Thank you Paulio.
So the Pi1 is tuning just the OS, Jessie?
And the ip in the command line switch is this Pi ip?

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No worries, yes it is just used for Turning on the TV at this stage but you could use it for more if needed. Could put Kodi on it or something. I would prob use a Raspberry Pi Zero W if I was buying something for this but I had the old Pi laying around not being used.

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Paulo, thank you very much.

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Hi, I’ve tried almost everything I can think of, i’m unable to run the following commands as “homeassistant”

i switch to env, source bin/activate when running tvservice -o or tvservice -p i get the following error [E] Failed to initialize VCHI (ret=-1)

I’ve updated my /etc/sudoers to:
homeasssistant ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: /home/homeassistant/magic/magic_on.sh, /home/homeassistant/magic/magic_off.sh

Script:

#!/bin/bash
tvservice --preferred

Error:
(homeassistant) homeassistant@raspberrypi:~/magic $ bash ./magic_on.sh
[E] Failed to initialize VCHI (ret=-1)

All I would like to do is create a command_line switch in HA to turn off/on Magic Mirror Screen. Once it’s in HA I can create a script or scene to control it with Google Home.

Please Help :frowning:

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Thanks Paulio! I used this to turn on a 2011 Samsung TV that didnt support a wake on lan function… I used the built in CEC switch in HASSio instead of the ssh command, but it works great!