New User Question

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Hi everyone,

I am fairly new to Home Assistant. I was able to add over all of my smart devices and have done some basic automations (turn on lights when motion sensor is activated).

I set up a scene for lighting in my family room for TV watching. I then set up an automation so that when my Apple TV turns on it should activate the scene. However, when I test it nothing happens. The scene works just fine, and I can turn the Apple TV on and off through home assistant. However, turning on the Apple TV with the remote won’t activate the scene. Any tips?

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HA has no way of knowing that a command has been sent from the physical remote, but the state of the media_player entity representing the TV should change.

Have a look at Developer Tools | States to see what happens when the TV is turned on. The media_player entity for my Android TV goes from “unavailable” to “on” if it has been powered off completely, or from “off” to “on” if it has been on standby, so changing to “on” could be an automation trigger.