Is it possible to turn on Xbox via HA? Or tell if it's playing a video?

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Hey everyone,

I’m trying to set up an automation that turns on my Xbox. I have the integration set up, and I see a service and 7 sensors. When I choose the Xbox device / service in the automation GUI though, it doesn’t seem to have any option to do anything.

Is it possible to have HA turn on the Xbox? Also is it possible to trigger an automation by the playing binary sensor changing to true?

A long time ago I could have sworn I had an automation set up to turn the lights off only when I started playing a game/video, but I’m having a hell of a time finding how to recreate it.

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I do not have an Xbox but.
Have you looked at this?

service: remote.toggle
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Thanks! Yeah, I looked at that a lot. Still trying to figure out how to use it from the HA interface… I don’t have much experience with YAML.

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Some things are getting better in the UI but YAML is still good to know. You have managed to get to this point in your HA journey so what’s another thing to learn. :thinking: