Remove duplicate Apple TV

Configuration
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Nothing in the log.

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So you see it in the web interface but not in the log? If you search for just apple_tv?

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I only had errors being logged. Will turn that off. Sorry


Yes, I can see it now. Lots of entries, but apple_tv_2 has appeared again. Man this is so confusing.

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Do you use plex on the Apple TV?

If so won’t plex just be creating the other media.player.appletv?

If you can set up entity namespace for all your media_player configs then I think this mystery media player might get renamed


media_player.plex_appletv

(Apologies if this is what you tried already, I am getting a cold so head is feeling a bit fuggy at the moment!)

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OK added a entity_namepsace to the manually specified Apple_TV in media_players.yaml and I have identified this in fact creates the old style attributes. The auto discovered platform in fact is showing the new style attributes!

I am not sure what is going on but that is looking very different to what I got earlier.

I think I need to reset all this and try again.

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I am a bit confused, and perhaps don’t understand what exactly is the issue, but have you applied entity namespace to all your media players, not just Apple TV?

For example until I set up entity namespace my nvidia shield tv was discovered as a player by both plex & chromecast so created 2 media players


media_player.shield
media_player.shield1

It wasn’t until I set entity namespace that I could get them to differentiate as


media_player.plex_shield
media_player.cast_shield

I assumed that what you are seeing is the same, that the Apple TV & plex are both creating a player. The plex one will automatically use the device name, which I guess just happens to be “appletv”

I might be completely wrong though!!!

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Sorry for causing confusion!

I have added a unique namespace to the apple_tv in media_players.yaml and restarted HA. This unique namespace is the only listed apple entity when first turned on.

Now I run BBC iPlayer on my Apple TV and that is detected OK and all the attributes are populated OK. Nothing else appears.

Now I run Plex on the Apple TV and immediately another entity appears media_player.apple_tv alongside the existing unique one above. So it seems when running plex it does create another entity. Both now remain permanently until I restart HA and then reverts to only having only the unique one from above until I start Plex again.

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Yes, so it is plex creating the other media player - it is not a duplicate, it is a separate thing. One media player is created by the appletv platform & one by the plex platform.

So if you assign entity namespace to plex as well it would now be called


media_player.plex_appletv

If you were to install Kodi on your appletv, and then add the kodi platform to home assistant you’d probably get another one called


media_player.appletv_3