SVT Play and Chromecast

Henrik_77 · October 12, 2018, 2:05pm

Hi,
I am trying to start playback of SVT Play channels and programs on my Chromecast from Home Assistant. The Chromecast is connected and I am able to send Text-to-speech to it but I cannot get it to start SVT Play. The reason for this, I believe, is that I am unable to find the URL to the media stream.

Have someone done this? Or can someone give me a hint how to find the URL.

/Henrik

Henrik_77 · October 17, 2018, 7:17am

I finally found the URL and got it to work with Home Assistant using this script:

play_svt1_on_chromecast:
  alias: Play SVT1 on Chromecast
  sequence:
  - data:
      entity_id: media_player.chromecast__kok
      media_content_id: https://svt1-b.akamaized.net/se/svt1/master.m3u8
      media_content_type: 'audio/mp4'
    service: media_player.play_media
play_svt2_on_chromecast:
  alias: Play SVT2 on Chromecast
  sequence:
  - data:
      entity_id: media_player.chromecast__kok
      media_content_id: https://svt1-b.akamaized.net/se/svt2/master.m3u8
      media_content_type: 'audio/mp4'
    service: media_player.play_media

bergstrom · June 14, 2019, 5:35pm

Hi Henrik,

I’m hoping you’re still active here since the post is quite old.
How did you find the URL to the streaming sites? I would like to have the URL to ‘Barnkanalen’ but have no clue how to find it

Henrik_77 · June 19, 2019, 7:34pm

Hi!
Active might be exaggerating but I am still here. Actually I don’t remember exactly how I did it. I do, however, remember that it was a bit of a hassle… I you are a bit techy you can use the debug function in Crome and try to find the URL. If I have time tomorrow I’ll give it a try… Have you tried to guess and just edit the URL I am using for SVT2?

delabrava · June 19, 2019, 9:14pm

Hello, the url to Barnkanalen is https://svt1-b.akamaized.net/se/svtb/master.m3u8

Henrik_77 · June 20, 2019, 6:24am

Thank you!
Just for future record and for others to use this, would you please shortly describe how you found the URL?

delabrava · June 20, 2019, 6:54pm

I actually don’t remember how I found out, as it was a while ago.

bergstrom · July 1, 2019, 10:24am

Hey, I actually forgot about asking this… I found the URL on some other forum and tried it out. Thanks though for your help

bergstrom · July 2, 2019, 8:03am

I actually don’t have google home paired to my home assistant but I guess you can ask google to run a script like above

bergstrom · August 1, 2019, 8:58am

I haven’t paired Google home with hass yet so I can not help you. Tried this tho, seem implemented in Google assistant already. Ludde is my CCast

MrBurvall · July 15, 2020, 11:16am

Hello,

This solution has worked fine for me until now, but now the chromecast only plays audio and shows the text “Default Media Receiver”. Same for svt1 and barnkanalen and on two different chromecasts.
Has anyone seen the same behavior?

janneck · September 10, 2020, 7:34am

Same for me! Only audio.

MrBurvall · September 10, 2020, 9:48am

I have tried googling it, but didn’t find any solutions.
Good that I’m not alone…

Please let me know if you find a solution!

MrBurvall · September 18, 2020, 9:38pm

Finally had some time to look at it, and changing from audio/mp4 to video/mp4 solves the problem.

Weird that audio worked before…

Tseven · September 19, 2020, 9:48pm

I managed to work out how to get the urls for SVT Play.

Install svtplay-dl from https://svtplay-dl.se/
get the url from Svt play web page e.g.

https://www.svtplay.se/video/20259390/morran-och-tobias-som-en-skank-fran-ovan

The -g flag in svtplay-dl gets the url for the file, -P for setting preferred download method

Run
svtplay-dl -g -P DASH https://www.svtplay.se/video/20259390/morran-och-tobias-som-en-skank-fran-ovan
result:
https://svt-vod-5l.akamaized.net/d0/se/20200821/4eecd8dc-7190-4480-96eb-ae5ff10779d9/dash-avc.mpd?alt=https%3A%2F%2Fswitcher.cdn.svt.se%2F4eecd8dc-7190-4480-96eb-ae5ff10779d9%2Fdash-avc.mpd

use the result url to cast

media_content_id: 'https://svt-vod-5l.akamaized.net/d0/se/20200821/4eecd8dc-7190-4480-96eb-ae5ff10779d9/dash-avc.mpd?alt=https%3A%2F%2Fswitcher.cdn.svt.se%2F4eecd8dc-7190-4480-96eb-ae5ff10779d9%2Fdash-avc.mpd'
media_content_type: 'video/mp4'

If there is many episode in a series you can download the urls with the flag -A i.e.

svtplay-dl -g -A -P DASH https://www.svtplay.se/nyheter-direkt
INFO: Episode 1 of 16
INFO: Url: http://www.svtplay.se/video/28260639/nyheter-direkt/flera-skjutna-och-skadade-i-rochester
https://svt-vod-7l.akamaized.net/d0/world/20200919/54c76158-fa5f-4a42-b9f4-1a4a38db0f0d/dash-avc.mpd?alt=https%3A%2F%2Fswitcher.cdn.svt.se%2F54c76158-fa5f-4a42-b9f4-1a4a38db0f0d%2Fdash-avc.mpd
INFO: Episode 2 of 16
.
.

You could probably put this in a script to get the urls in i playlist…

bergstrom · September 16, 2021, 5:07pm

Anyone got the new URL to SVT Barn?

KaherdinTristan · October 6, 2021, 5:41pm

SVT Barnkanalen working today 2021-10-16
https://svtb-c.akamaized.net/se/svtb/manifest.mpd?defaultSubLang=1

type: button
tap_action:
  action: call-service
  service: media_player.play_media
  service_data:
    media_content_type: video/mp4
    media_content_id: https://svtb-c.akamaized.net/se/svtb/manifest.mpd?defaultSubLang=1
  target:
    entity_id: media_player.stora_teven
name: Play Svt Barnkanalen
show_state: false
show_icon: false
show_name: true

How to get streaming url’s using “svtplay-dl”.

Swedish;
Hur kan jag streama SVT kanaler (SVT1, SVT2, SVT Barnkanalen, SVT med flera andra kanaler) med hjälp av Home Assistant.

Get the program at;

Extract the zipped file into

Open CMD (windows users)
go to the extracted folder, i.e. c:\users[username]\appdata\roaming\svtplay-dl\

run

svtplay-dl -g https://www.svtplay.se/kanaler/svtbarn?start=auto

Peace