Philips Android TV component

Feature Requests
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And there is no workarround for this? Because there is an option “Source”.

Maybe something like pressing source and then 4 times down?
Is there a up, down, left, right command?

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You can build your own script doing this with key input. The the repository with the component in this thread Source is meant for channel and app only.

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Thanks, but that might be out of my programming skills.

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Most of the times I try to turn on the TV with component it fails. Like 3 of 4 tries fail.

When I turn it on manually the component connects. I have WoWLAN enabled and I read that it not a 100% reliable.

When it fails I also tried to ping my TV with a failing result. So it looks like that’s not an issue of the component but one of the TV, because it’S offline.

Do you also experience this? I also use the ambilights component and I have a similiar experice here. The Ambilight-Light only works in manual mode for about 5 mins after I turn the TV to standby. After that it will go unavailbale (also no ping).

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It is the same for me. But it should be possible to make the component more reliable.
The steps to turn on the TV using wake on lan (or WoWLAN) has 2 steps:

  1. Send a WOL/WoWLAN packet to the TV. This wakes up the TV API
  2. Send a Power: On command to the TV

To make it more reliable, we would need a function which waits until the API of the TV is online and then sends the command. Currently we send the WOL, and then try a few times to turn it in. This would need to be better.

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@nstrelow Do you use the ambilight component as well?

Maybe you coudl share you experience with that as well,

See:

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Only works when TV is on. The light goes out, when the TV goes to sleep, so the API is not accessible anymore

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Everyone should check out the hass.io ADB addon and the custom component made for it.
https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-adb

This can potentially do much more than just pause and play inside Apps, but show content of the Apps.
I will try it out myself soon.

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Keep us updated.

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You can use ADB for this: GitHub - eslavnov/android-tv-remote: A simple wrapper around ADB to send commands to Android TVs

UPD: the API itself does not support this AFAIK. Button combos like “source => down => down…” worked terribly for me (constantly selected wrong inputs or you have to add a delay between sending keys, but then it’s SLOW)

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Don’t know if this is possible for hassio users like me?

And what does UPD mean?

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I tried ADB and it works but not much, you can turn on/off, change volume and see which app is currently running. I haven’t checked if it launch apps. Unfortunately, the player stays in idle mode and doesn’t change to playing mode when app, e.g. Netflix or Youtube, actually playing.

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For me it does change.

And this would be one thing, which it is better at as the current component.

It can detect when something is playing or being paused.

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It is interesting because it is the only thing I would need except on/off. Which TV model do you have? Did you use the developing androidtv component with some modifications to it?

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Since the installation of this component, my tv turns on sometimes without any reason.
for example I wasn’t at home and looked at my home assistant instance and saw that my tv was on.

This also happened one time while we were sleeping.

Does someone else experience this?

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HA 0.88 breaking the component.
Error loading custom_components.media_player.philips_2016. Make sure all dependencies are installed

Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/homeassistant/loader.py”, line 147, in _load_file module = importlib.import_module(path) File “/usr/local/lib/python3.7/importlib/init.py”, line 127, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File “<frozen importlib._bootstrap>”, line 1006, in _gcd_import File “<frozen importlib._bootstrap>”, line 983, in _find_and_load File “<frozen importlib._bootstrap>”, line 967, in _find_and_load_unlocked File “<frozen importlib._bootstrap>”, line 677, in _load_unlocked File “<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>”, line 728, in exec_module File “<frozen importlib._bootstrap>”, line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed File “/config/custom_components/media_player/philips_2016.py”, line 15, in <module> from homeassistant.components.media_player import (SUPPORT_STOP, SUPPORT_PLAY, SUPPORT_NEXT_TRACK, SUPPORT_PAUSE, ImportError: cannot import name ‘SUPPORT_TURN_OFF’ from ‘homeassistant.components.media_player’ (/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/homeassistant/components/media_player/init.py)

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This should be the reason.

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Unfortunately, Only changing the path to /config/custom_components/philips_2016/media_player.py does not solve the problem.

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Did you try that too?

Always make sure you create at least an empty __init__.py file in that folder.

EDIT: Cann confirm that the component is broken in 0.88, even with that emty file added to the folder

Platform not found: media_player.philips_2016

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after updating to 0.88 you need to change the imports in .py file at line 15

from homeassistant.components.media_player.const import (SUPPORT_STOP, SUPPORT_PLAY, SUPPORT_NEXT_TRACK, SUPPORT_PAUSE,
                                                   SUPPORT_PREVIOUS_TRACK, SUPPORT_VOLUME_SET, SUPPORT_TURN_OFF, SUPPORT_TURN_ON,
                                                   SUPPORT_VOLUME_MUTE, SUPPORT_VOLUME_STEP, SUPPORT_SELECT_SOURCE)
from homeassistant.components.media_player import (PLATFORM_SCHEMA, MediaPlayerDevice)

SUPPORT_STOP, SUPPORT_PLAY, SUPPORT_NEXT_TRACK, SUPPORT_PAUSE,
_ SUPPORT_PREVIOUS_TRACK, SUPPORT_VOLUME_SET, SUPPORT_TURN_OFF, SUPPORT_TURN_ON,_
_ SUPPORT_VOLUME_MUTE, SUPPORT_VOLUME_STEP, SUPPORT_SELECT_SOURCE_ must be imported from homeassistant.components.media_player.cons and PLATFORM_SCHEMA, MediaPlayerDevice must be imported from homeassistant.components.media_player