Media players not shown in Homekit

Third party integrations
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Hi,

I have successfully added Homekit to HA and then connected it to Homekit in the Home App. Many devices do show up but many do not. I do not see any media devices: Sonos, Samsung TV, Denon receiver, which all are seen in Home Assistant.

I tried to specify:
include_domains:

  • media_player

I also added specifications under entity_config:

The result was that all the other devices disappeared from Homekit and the media players still did not show. I have been able to get the original devices shown again, but no media players.

I have delayed the start of the homekit component 5 minutes.

All the media players have been added to HA with the discovery component. Could that be a problem?

Can anybody help me?

2

Same problem. Set up hass.io on rp3b+, enabled homekit. Everything works fine - all the devices permitted by include_domains show up in Home app on iPhone 6s except media players (roku and samsung tv).

homekit:
filter:
include_domains:
- alarm_control_panel
- light
- media_player
- cover
- switch
- climate

Any luck with this?

3

Failed to mention I am running HA 0.76.2 currently.

4

Nothing yet. I manager tonsteg my Sonos, but not the other devices. I think that these devices do not automatically generade switches or other instances that Homekit recognizes. I had to define play/pause switches for Sonos.

5

I was able to get the Mopidy media player to show up by adding entity_config to the homekit section in the confirgurator. However, Samsung tv and roku still don’t show up.

6

Can you show me the configration that you have

7

It is not clear what you want help with.

8

I have a plex media server that is connected to home assistant
It’s shown as a
Media player
And I have HomeKit on home assistant

And the plex media server is not showing in the Home App
(HomeAssistant Bridge)

9

I’m running hassbian , on a raspberry pi zero

10

I’m afraid I can’t as I do not have Plex

11

I have the same problem !!!

I can see my tv in my Homeassistant, something like this:

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And when the TV its on, in the HomeAssistant I’m able to turn it off (im not able to turn it on, but there is no problem, I only need to turn off)!!

I would like to be able to do the same in my HomeKit! Does anyone knows how to do it ?

12

In my HomeKit configuration I have the following (for my Sonos):

  entity_config:
    media_player.sovrum:
      feature_list:
        - feature: play_pause

I guess a similar setup for your TV should work, probably with the feature on_off.

13

I will check it out !! thanks for the help :slight_smile:

14

I tested it out and its not working :confused:

Still nothing in homekit

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configuration.yaml

homekit:
  filter:
    include_domains:
      - climate
      - cover
      - media_player
  entity_config.tv:
    media_player:
      feature_list:
        - feature: on_off

media_player:
  - platform: samsungtv
    host: 192.168.1.107
    name: TV Sala
15

I think it should be:

homekit:
  filter:
    include_domains:
      - climate
      - cover
      - media_player
  entity_config:
    media_player.xxxxx:
      feature_list:
        - feature: on_off
16

still no luck :confused:

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noob question: what should I place in the “xxxxx”

this are my media_player settings

media_player:
  - platform: samsungtv
    host: 192.168.1.107
    name: TV Sala
17

In your list of entities, what is the entity id of the media player? The entity id should replace my media_player.xxxxx. Hopefully that should do the trick, if you haven’t already tried it.

Is it media_player.tv_sala?

18

where can I find the entity list?
I don’t think I have one lol

19

In developer tools (my version is Swedish)

06

The second icon leads to the list of all your entities. Very important as a reference tool.

20

it worked !! thanks a lot ! :smiley:

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