Philips Android TV component

nstrelow · February 23, 2019, 3:40pm

Yes exactly. Not ideal and I will proabay remove philips_2016.py, the next time I make changes to it.

olbjan · April 17, 2019, 9:53pm

Heads-up, as of 0.92.0b0 this custom component isn’t working.

nstrelow · April 17, 2019, 10:21pm

Thanks for the heads up. Did you use the new custom component structure folder (folder named philips_2016)?

I currently had to move and I currently have no homeassistant installed anywhere. So if anyone is facing the problem and knows how to circumvent it, I would be very happy for a PR on GitHub or a hint on what to fix and somebody willing to test.

Thanks for the support guys ^^

olbjan · April 18, 2019, 6:28pm

I have a fix and will create a PR against your repo once I figure out how to do that.

olbjan · April 18, 2019, 7:49pm

OK, there is now a PR on your GitHub repo that reflects the necessary changes to get the component working in 0.92 and forward.

-Jan

nstrelow · April 27, 2019, 4:07pm

MERGED. Thanks to @olbjan this integration now works with 0.92.

Find the updated files and repo here: https://github.com/nstrelow/ha_philips_2016

Beware that the folder structure changes and more files are needed now. Check the Readme for the intructions.

Next: Show only your favorite channels in the channel selection menu. Feature request AND implementation of also @olbjan.

What’s your opinions? Would it help to only show the favorite channels in the selection menu?

Dissi · April 27, 2019, 7:10pm

Hi,

seems not to work.

–>
File “/config/custom_components/philips_android_tv/media_player.py”, line 45, in
DEFAULT_FAV = false
NameError: name ‘false’ is not defined
<–

I’ve tryed setting false in ’ '. With that HA starts again, but the dashboard show unly “unknown status”.

Regards,
dissi

mackay · April 27, 2019, 7:14pm

There’s a small bug, you need to set:
DEFAULT_FAV = False (capital F)
in that line 45.

Thanks for that update nstrelow!

Dissi · April 27, 2019, 7:30pm

capital F solves the error on startup, thats true. But it shows even status Unkown for the tv there are a lot of errors in like:

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2019-04-27 19:29:34 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.entity] Update for media_player.philips_tv fails
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/src/app/homeassistant/helpers/entity.py”, line 220, in async_update_ha_state
await self.async_device_update()
File “/usr/src/app/homeassistant/helpers/entity.py”, line 377, in async_device_update
await self.hass.async_add_executor_job(self.update)
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.7/concurrent/futures/thread.py”, line 57, in run
result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File “/usr/src/app/homeassistant/util/init.py”, line 224, in wrapper
result = method(*args, **kwargs)
File “/config/custom_components/philips_android_tv/media_player.py”, line 239, in update
self._tv.update()
File “/config/custom_components/philips_android_tv/media_player.py”, line 320, in update
if favorite_only:
NameError: name ‘favorite_only’ is not defined
<–

mackay · April 27, 2019, 7:50pm

@Dissi You’re right. I’ve only checked volume change which seems to work ok. Can’t change source - select field has no values.

nstrelow · April 27, 2019, 9:53pm

Errors happend
I currently have no access to a Philips TV and therefore I am not testing changes I make, which resulted into todays errors. Sorry for that.

Newest version is up, and I did test it running on homeassistant, just without connecting to a TV. I hope this fixes it.

Please let me know if not.

mackay · April 28, 2019, 6:52am

@nstrelow Just finished testing. It’s completely fine now. Thank you!!

olbjan · April 28, 2019, 8:34am

Concur, not changing anything keeps old behaviour and adding the new channel filter works as well.

And there is now support for the custom_updater component as well

h4nc · April 28, 2019, 8:48am

Would be nice to have this in custom updater.

nstrelow · April 28, 2019, 11:55am

Favorite channels only and custom_updater support

With the new update you have to change your config from platform: philips_2016 to platform: philips_android_tv, as numbers are not supported anymore.

@olbjan has been pushing some awesome new stuff.

There now is an option to only display the channels in your favorites list in the source selection. Add favorite_channels_only: true to your config.
Now supports custom_updater, a component to manage your custom components. Use together with tracker-card to get the card from the screenshot below.
Add https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nstrelow/ha_philips_2016/master/custom_components.json to component_urls .

As always head to my GitHub to get the latest version. And if you setup custom_updater, this will hopefully be the last time you manually have to copy the component

Screenshot of tracker-card with philips_android_tv:

alain57 · May 13, 2019, 9:35pm

Hi,
I have a philips 803 oled 4K android tv with latest firmware.
I installed this component
succesful pair it

i’m watching netflix and can increase or decrease the sound
but what is strange, is that component show a play icon, instead of a pause icon and that it says that the TV is sleeping what of course is not the case. Any idea what i can do to fix this?

nstrelow · May 15, 2019, 7:26am

Detecting the playing state is not possible with the API. We can only Play or Pause, but not know which state the video is in.

h4nc · May 21, 2019, 1:00pm

Is it possible to filter the dropdown (source) menu?

nstrelow · May 21, 2019, 2:05pm

You can create a favorite lists for your TV channels and then put “favorite_channels_only: true” in your config. Then only your favorite channels are displayed.

No way to do this for apps currently.
Make a feature request to the home assistant media player for this. Since this is a standart component.

h4nc · May 21, 2019, 4:56pm

I already use this

Would be nice to have this for the apps too.

To be honest I don’t know how and where to open a pull request. When I click open pr it tells me to compare versions.
Could you open that PR?