Hisense TV using VIDDA 7

[stevepb (Stephen Baron)]

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

[tom_l]

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[eclignett]

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.

[tomg1970]

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.

[eclignett]

@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…

[nikagl (Nika Gerson Lohman)]

See here:

Hisense TV / VIDAA Integration

Okay, for the Home Assistant users, this is still a work in progress but I finally managed to get config_flow working and can now turn on and off my TV. I have only updated the files from my repo in the custom_components/hisense_tv folder, and I have added the certificates to my config folder… For most of it I have used Github Copilot so some of the code is still a bit funky and I still have a lot of work to get control of everything I have in my hisense.py script, but it’s a start: Let me kno…

[akurz42 (Alex)]

Failing miserably here when trying to set up the mosquitto bridge. I’ve read the certs from my TV, put both in a crt file, called the whole thing hisense-chain.crt, referenced it as bridge_cafile in the config. Result:

2025-04-22 16:47:59: Connecting bridge hisense (192.168.178.54:36669)
2025-04-22 16:47:59: OpenSSL Error[0]: error:0A000410:SSL routines::sslv3 alert handshake failure
2025-04-22 16:47:59: Bad socket read/write on client local.HomeAssistant: A TLS error occurred.
2025-04-22 16:48:30: Connecting bridge hisense (192.168.178.54:36669)
2025-04-22 16:48:30: OpenSSL Error[0]: error:0A000410:SSL routines::sslv3 alert handshake failure
2025-04-22 16:48:30: Client local.HomeAssistant disconnected: Protocol error.

No idea what to put into bridge_certfile and bridge_keyfile. Any help appreciated.

Alex

[akurz42 (Alex)]

Ok, got everything configured, but now when the integration tries to connect, there’s a pop-up on the TV saying something like “This TV is no longer compatible with the current version of the app” and the conection fails. Guess they’ve changed something again?

Alex