Panasonic 4K Bluray Support

[kernelpanic1]

Hi all,

Would love to see support for the current generation of Panasonic 4k Bluray players (UB420/820/9000) in the panasonic_bluray integration. They have a network port so there is definitely connectivity.

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Panasonic BD UB-820

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Panasonic blueray platform

My Panasonic UB820 bluray player is not one of the models listed as compatible on this platform and does not work. There is one question I do have. In the HA Developer Tools/States there is this entry: supported_features: 20865 What is the significance of the numeric entry here?

Panasonic bluray platform

This is defying my understanding. I have edited my configuration.yaml file to include the panasonic_bluray media player definition but I cannot get HA to pass the configuration check. I have commented out the entries and uncommented them sequentially, testing the config on each step. When the first two lines are uncommented the configuration check recognizes the panasonic_bluray platform and only complains that the host: entry is missing. Nothing I have tried with the host: entry changes the err…

Player Support

Thanks!

[K-n-C]

Old post, and late reply, but just in case you or anyone else is getting stumped…

check out a python module called panacotta (that is what the integration is using). https://pypi.org/project/panacotta/

You have to make sure you allow remote connections to your blu-ray in Network settings:

I have an older DMP-BDT220, but it works for what I need it to do. I am trying to figure out how to get prev/next/eject to work, but the Integration is pretty clear that the existing core Integration only supports Power On/Power Off/Play/Pause. However Panacotta supports a whole lot more!

Have fun!

[kernelpanic1]

Thanks for the reminder. I forgot I submitted this feature request. The newer UB players have since been added in panacotta 0.2 and HA.

You’re right, panacotta supports more features. I’m going to mess around with adding prev/next support to the HA integration and will make a PR in Github if I get it working.

Eject functionality sadly doesn’t seem to be supported by the media player entity in HA:

Media Player Entity | Home Assistant Developer Docs

[K-n-C]

I have NEXT_TRACK, PREVIOUS_TRACK, and used STOP to control EJECT (Play/Pause works for me as a stop function)…

See THIS POST.

I hope this is useful!

[ellchester (Rob)]

I still can’t get the 820 to work with Home Assistant - it sees it as a media player but won’t turn on or off and can’t control it. Wondered if anyone had an ideas?

[respecreload]

Sadly no. I have a 824 and I have the exact same problem with it. I would be totally happy with just turn the device off and on but i cannot get it to work.

[LenniePaz]

I’m trying to get my UB420 working with HA and added it to the configuration.yaml. HA sees the player but I have no controls and it always shows as Idle. Did I add it properly?

[JSa1987]

I know this is a quite old thread, but I wanted to ask what is the current status of panasonic_bluray. Is the integration in HA updated with the additional functions @K-n-C got to work?

I would like to buy a DVD/Bluray player: nothing special, just to play the old collection of DVD/Bluray we have. And I would like to control it from HA: Power ON/OFF, Play, Stop, Next Track/Previous Track… maybe Pause (and Eject if the player does not have a hardware button for that).

Would any of the Panasonic Bluray player currently on the market be compatible with the panasonic_bluray integration in HA?