Hi there,
I am new to HA and am struggling with the last step of my “turn home cinema on” script I made with Home Assistant. Maybe one of you guys have an idea here.
I want to play a THX/Dolby Atmos theme (mp3) when the script is triggered. Here I dont know how to approach this. I am using a Vero4K with OSMC (Kodi Fork) as media client and a Intel NUC with OpenMediaVault (Debian Core) and Plex as media server. Furthermore a Pioneer LSX701 (AVR) and a Logitech Harmony Hub are present as relevant hardware.
The script until here:
'1575806592249':
alias: Cinema Night
sequence:
- device_id: ab2810ef395a4c72b55a968cd59a3b36
domain: switch
entity_id: switch.backplug
type: turn_on
- delay: 00:00:01
- alias: 'Beamer On'
data:
command: PowerOn
device: 65245933
entity_id: remote.harmonyhub
service: remote.send_command
- alias: 'AVR2 On'
data:
command: PowerOn
device: 65261054
entity_id: remote.harmonyhub
service: remote.send_command
- alias: 'Source Vero4K'
data:
entity_id: media_player.pionner_avr
source: dvd
service: media_player.select_source
- alias: 'Red Light On'
data:
brightness: 100
entity_id: light.wohnzimmer
rgb_color:
- 255
- 0
- 0
transition: 50
service: light.turn_on
My actual considerations:
-
ATM the Vero is always on, so sth. like “play sound when Vero/Kodi is turning on” would possible with some further effort
-
Playing a local MP3 via OSMC would turn on the local player, but I want to have the movie screen when projector is turned on
-
The only Add-On in this direction I know is CinemaVision, but I didnt found a fitting feature on a first view into it. Maybe there a others that could solve this…?
-
Within Home Assistant I could call a Kodi JSONRPC method, but I have no clue what this is
-
Utilizing an external player via AVR would involve a Zone 2 configuration, but this also seems like a complicated workaround
I hope I missed a simpler solution here, achieving this last step is my first milestone with HA.
Thanks
Kelvin