@yrune good catch. Thanks, I missed a step somewhere!
Hey, I have an issue with this component since ages. From one day to the other the media player stopped showing the image of the current game. Itās quite weird and Iāve tried everything to solve this issue. The media player looks like this:
The state of the media player lists an entity picture with a local path:
and when I open this path in my browser the image of the current game is shown in the browser:
So the path works but the component doesnāt load it into the media player. As I said it worked perfectly and I havenāt changed any config. Config is set to local storage as shown in the instructions. Any fix for that?
One thing Iāve never been clear on, are we supposed to be supplying these images (as in go and find an image for every game we have and put it in a folder), or is the add on supposed to be grabbing them itself online?
If you use local option you have to get these images for yourself and place them in a folder in www.
How do you name the images?
Images need the gameās ID in name. See:
i still only get small icon. its not showing in frontend.
this is my setup:
- platform: ps4
host: http:/XXXXXX:3031
ps4_ip: XXXXXXX
name: PlayStation 4
local_store: games
Is there another option other than local?
You havenāt read the manual. Default option is without local storage. Instead it uses an online database. Just leave out the local_store part in your config.
Yeah I donāt have local config in my setup but I still donāt get any images. Not sure itās ever worked to be honest but wasnāt sure if it was just me.
To me itās the other way round. I have always used the local option. Sorry, I didnāt know that the online mapping didnāt work either. @7even I also only get the small icon.
I just got the component working . YEAY!
BUTā¦ I do not use local for game images but I only get images on some of the games. The games that do work I get both small and large images, for the ones that donāt I donāt get any images. Looking into it now thou, I think I saw something about this before
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After I reinstalled hassbian on my Pi I can not get this component to work anymore. I can control the ps4 but the mediaplayer.ps4 does not show up. In my previous installation everything worked. I am using the latetst version of the ps4.py file.
When I boot up homeassistant I get the following error:
2018-11-25 22:43:33 ERROR (Thread-14) [homeassistant.util.package] Unable to install package https://github.com/hmn/python-ps4/archive/master.zip#pyps4==dev: Command "/srv/homeassistant/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-7g96tekd/pycryptodomex/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-c99nklns-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /srv/homeassistant/include/site/python3.5/pycryptodomex" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-7g96tekd/pycryptodomex/
2018-11-25 22:43:33 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.requirements] Not initializing media_player.ps4 because could not install requirement https://github.com/hmn/python-ps4/archive/master.zip#pyps4==dev
2018-11-25 22:43:33 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Unable to prepare setup for platform media_player.ps4: Could not install all requirements.
Any suggestions to get this component working??
Last edit: this seems to be my issue.
My problem is that when I SSH into the RPi and run ps4-waker, everything works fine. When I try to go to http://HA_IP_ADDRESS:3031/ps4/PS4_IP_ADDRESS/info, Iām getting a json {āstatusā:āCould not detect any matching PS4 deviceā}.
It seems like a network issue, but I confirmed that both my RPi and my PS4 are on the same network so I donāt think using --bind would help.
Any thoughts?
solved the issue of no caption / media_image displayed by modifying the ps4.py
this should do it 
basically, what I did is telling hass.io that entity_picture = media_image_url 
you should edit your ps4.py in /custom_components/media_player/
hereās my ps4.py file :
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Does anybody know if itās possible to get a push update (instead of polling) when the PS4 is turned on?
Iām not a big fan of polling because it takes several seconds for a change to be noticed, but of course I realize that push updates are often not available.
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Iāve managed to make it all work with updated component, but have problem with images not loading from PS Store. So I tried using older version of component, images do load without problem, but it doesnāt seem to connect to ps4-waker. Can I have both? Maybe there is some other version or someone has solution? Thanks
Edit:
I managed to find that this piece of code in ps4.py is missing in new version, so it doesnāt even try to download cover art, which is weird decision by author to omit this function. Iām not able to edit this component myself as Iām not a python coder, maybe someone else could do that. Hereās the code in older version that fetched the cover art:
def ps_store_cover_art(self):
"""Store coverart from PS store in games map."""
import requests
import urllib
cover_art = None
try:
url = 'https://store.playstation.com'
url += '/valkyrie-api/en/US/19/faceted-search/'
url += urllib.parse.quote(self._media_title.encode('utf-8'))
url += '?query='
url += urllib.parse.quote(self._media_title.encode('utf-8'))
url += '&platform=ps4'
headers = {
'User-Agent':
'Mozilla/5.0 '
'(Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 '
'(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.84 Safari/537.36'
}
req = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
except requests.exceptions.HTTPError as error:
_LOGGER.error("PS cover art HTTP error, %s", error)
except requests.exceptions.RequestException as error:
_LOGGER.error("PS cover art request failed, %s", error)
for item in req.json()['included']:
if 'attributes' in item:
game = item['attributes']
if 'game-content-type' in game and \
game['game-content-type'] in \
['App', 'Game', 'Full Game', 'PSN Game']:
if 'thumbnail-url-base' in game:
_LOGGER.debug("Found cover art for %s, %s %s",
self._media_content_id,
game['game-content-type'],
game['thumbnail-url-base'])
cover_art = game['thumbnail-url-base']
cover_art += '?w=512&h=512'
self._gamesmap[self._media_content_id] = cover_art
breakhey @YuriGlushko , take a look to my post, itās 2 replies above 
feel free to edit it and add your ps_store_cover_art script 