Hisense TV using VIDDA 7

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Has anyone now successfully able to control their Hisense TV with Home Assistant. I have read various posts on the chat and it looks like something in VIDDA 6 prevented the original solution working. I have tried the work arounds but I cannot get RemoteNOW to connect to the TV. It locates it, just wont connect to it which is annoying.

I have connected it to Home Assistant via DLNA, however this doesn’t seem to work consistently and only has a few capabilities ( volume, on/off ).

I have had success in connecting Alexa Fire TV Cube to the television which is able to control channels, On/Off, Volume etc so I think there probably is a solution to use this as a bridge. My preference would be a Home Assistant direct solution though.

Thanks

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Not a real solution, but a workaround.
I use the HomeKit functionality to add my Hisense TV to Home Assistant. Sadly this won’t give me controls to turn the TV on and off, but at least I have the state.
I use a Broadlink to control the TV.

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Hi, can YOU tell me more about how exactly you connected your Hisense Smart TV
connected to Home Assistant?
So that I can at least switch it off and on.

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@tomg1970 Sorry for the crazy slow response. If I’m remembering correctly I went to Settings/Integrations and selected the Add Integration and searched for Apple and selected HomeKit Device.
Hope this helps…