Hello,
I can control my old Sony TV with the Bravia Integration in Home Assistant. I also configured HomeKit Bridge and did get a switch now in HomeKit to control the TV. But isn’t it possible, that I get it as TV accessory in HomeKit? How to configure that?
To show up as a TV in HomeKit, it needs to be a media_player with device_class: tv in HASS. If it is an old TV with an old integration it may not conform to the current HASS code standards.
There is a Universal Media Player integration which possibly could be used to create a new conforming entity that simply forwards all commands to the your TVs “other” entity.
Impossible to say. Open the Developer Tools > States panel (see link if you’ve never used this before). Find your TV’s media_player entity in the leftmost column. In the rightmost attributes column, is there a device_class: tv listed? If not there is your problem. If it is, then I honestly have no idea.
There it says device_class: tv:
Maybe did I configure anything wrong in the HomeKit Bridge Integration?
This is the one I should select, right?
Then it should work, but if it doesn’t, well I really have no idea… The documentation suggests removing and re-adding the TV if not exposed correctly, or to wrap it in a Universal Media Player.
My TV is directly connected to HomeKit without going through the HASS Bridge but I barely use HomeKit at all nowadays. Some years ago before using HASS I did attempt to connect a previous TV to HomeKit through HomeBridge and that was super finicky and never worked well.
I removed HomeKit Bridge now and configured it again and it is working. Thanks a lot!
