LG webOS Smart TV play YouTube video by URL doesn't work

Configuration
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Hello guys,
I connected Lg TV to home assistant.
I can turn on/off, change source to YouTube for example, control the sound, but can’t put exact video by url.
I’m trying to do it using script:

fish:
  alias: Aquarium
  sequence:
  - service: media_extractor.play_media
    data:
      entity_id: media_player.tv_715
      media_content_type: video/mp4
      media_content_id: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y7QaIQET0E&t=37s

Also tried:

fish:
  alias: Aquarium
  sequence:
  - service: media_extractor.play_media
    entity_id: media_player.tv_715
    data:
      media_content_type: video/mp4
      media_content_id: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y7QaIQET0E&t=37s

And of course tested such media_content_type: video, video/youtube, audio/youtube…

It doesn’t work; Logs show that script is called, but nothing.

I’m trying to call service media_extractor.play_media with this:

{
  "entity_id": "media_player.tv_715",
"media_content_type": "video/mp4", 
"media_content_id": "http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/BigBuckBunny.mp4"
}

Also tested with different media_content_type.
It doesn’t work.

No errors in any case. Just that everything is called fine, but in result no video is played on the TV.
Could not find solution on forums.

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Did you solve this?

3

I’m also trying to get this to work. Anyone got a solution?

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I would also be interested if someone find a solution / develpment

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anyone found a solution / development for this? I am interesting too

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I’m having better luck controlling the LG with the Node Red nodes for it than i did with Home Assistant directly. I haven’t tried Youtube, but I never could get the browser to show a URL in HA directly but it worked easily in Node Red.

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Which NodeRed integration are you using?

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They look like forks of each other so which is best is a good question, but I am using node-red-contrib-lgtv 1.1.0.

They are relatively unsophisticated in node-red items, for example as best I can tell you cannot choose the TV with a payload, so you have to hard code a separate node for each action for each TV, though you can feed in a URL for the web browser. For youtube it wants the video id.

But for web browsing it works fine.

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Looking for this as well anyone have anything on this?

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I’m trying wto get the desired outcome via the PY code developer otions https://github.com/TheRealLink/pylgtv

it mentions soething like :
Allow launch Youtube App with startup params of video id.

lgtv/endpoints.py


but I’m not able to launch Youtube with specidif URL as paramenter

any suggestion or sucess ?

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Responded to a similar question elsewhere, but replying here as well since it maybe relevant.

service: webostv.command
data:
  entity_id: media_player.jtv
  command: "system.launcher/launch"
  payload:
    id: "youtube.leanback.v4"
    contentId: "dQw4w9WgXcQ"

The commit that’s necessary to do this was just merged a few days ago by @PotatoDrug. I was able to confirm it works by using homeassistant/home-assistant:0.111.0.dev20200530

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Ohhh I fell for it :joy:
But thanks, this yaml is what I needed!

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It’s not working for me. It opens the YouTube app, but it doesn’t start playing the requested video.
Is there anything else I need to do?

I see this error message in the logs:

2020-09-24 09:02:30 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.websocket_api.http.connection.140271226917600] extra keys not allowed @ data['contentId']
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/websocket_api/commands.py", line 137, in handle_call_service
    await hass.services.async_call(
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py", line 1269, in async_call
    processed_data = handler.schema(service_data)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/voluptuous/schema_builder.py", line 272, in __call__
    return self._compiled([], data)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/voluptuous/schema_builder.py", line 594, in validate_dict
    return base_validate(path, iteritems(data), out)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/voluptuous/schema_builder.py", line 432, in validate_mapping
    raise er.MultipleInvalid(errors)
voluptuous.error.MultipleInvalid: extra keys not allowed @ data['contentId']
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well this worked for me. just i do still have to press play this video. maybe try a diferent youtube link?

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Hi,

Very new user here, apologies for any confusion/frustration caused, im on a very steep learning curve:

i also can not get this to work, i can only get my TV to open the youtube app, on a OLED55CX6LA running 03.21.18 - youtube app version web_20210411_10_RC00.

i have tried this code and all the code on:

but all i can get is the TV app to open

please help??
thanks

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for me this working:


service: webostv.command
data:
  command: system.launcher/launch
  payload:
    id: youtube.leanback.v4
    contentId: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fHASeSrH8w
  entity_id: media_player.tv

but it opens in small window on tv… like this:

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Is anyone familiar with this issue?

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Hey. For anyone seeing this, I got it working with modifying the contentId: from “url” to “v=6fHASeSrH8w” auto play and all.

service: webostv.command
data:
  command: system.launcher/launch
  payload:
    id: youtube.leanback.v4
    contentId: v=6fHASeSrH8w
  entity_id: media_player.tv
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Works perfect! Thanks!

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Confirming changing msg.payload to include ‘v=’ before the video id also works for the node-red-contrib-lgtv Youtube node.

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