Unable to power on Bravia TV

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Hi All,

I’ve been recently trying to control my Bravia TV with Home Assistant and while I’ve been able to pair it with HASS (and control inputs and other functions) I am unable to power on the TV if it is in standby. I have tried using both wired Ethernet and Wireless. When I tail my log files while sending the power on command I see the following:

Sep 21 08:42:53 ca-vic-cm-hass02 hass-load[23040]: ERROR:homeassistant.core:Error doing job: Task exception was never retrieved
Sep 21 08:42:53 ca-vic-cm-hass02 hass-load[23040]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Sep 21 08:42:53 ca-vic-cm-hass02 hass-load[23040]: File “/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/tasks.py”, line 241, in _step
Sep 21 08:42:53 ca-vic-cm-hass02 hass-load[23040]: result = coro.throw(exc)
Sep 21 08:42:53 ca-vic-cm-hass02 hass-load[23040]: File “/etc/hass/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/core.py”, line 1025, in _event_to_service_call
Sep 21 08:42:53 ca-vic-cm-hass02 hass-load[23040]: yield from service_handler.func(service_call)
Sep 21 08:42:53 ca-vic-cm-hass02 hass-load[23040]: File “/etc/hass/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/components/media_player/init.py”, line 408, in async_service_handler
Sep 21 08:42:53 ca-vic-cm-hass02 hass-load[23040]: yield from getattr(player, method[‘method’])(**params)
Sep 21 08:42:53 ca-vic-cm-hass02 hass-load[23040]: File “/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/futures.py”, line 380, in iter
Sep 21 08:42:53 ca-vic-cm-hass02 hass-load[23040]: yield self # This tells Task to wait for completion.
Sep 21 08:42:53 ca-vic-cm-hass02 hass-load[23040]: File “/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/tasks.py”, line 304, in _wakeup
Sep 21 08:42:53 ca-vic-cm-hass02 hass-load[23040]: future.result()
Sep 21 08:42:53 ca-vic-cm-hass02 hass-load[23040]: File “/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/futures.py”, line 293, in result
Sep 21 08:42:53 ca-vic-cm-hass02 hass-load[23040]: raise self._exception
Sep 21 08:42:53 ca-vic-cm-hass02 hass-load[23040]: File “/usr/lib/python3.5/concurrent/futures/thread.py”, line 55, in run
Sep 21 08:42:53 ca-vic-cm-hass02 hass-load[23040]: result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
Sep 21 08:42:53 ca-vic-cm-hass02 hass-load[23040]: File “/etc/hass/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/components/media_player/braviatv.py”, line 346, in turn_on
Sep 21 08:42:53 ca-vic-cm-hass02 hass-load[23040]: self._braviarc.turn_on()
Sep 21 08:42:53 ca-vic-cm-hass02 hass-load[23040]: File “/etc/hass/lib/python3.5/site-packages/braviarc/braviarc.py”, line 257, in turn_on
Sep 21 08:42:53 ca-vic-cm-hass02 hass-load[23040]: self.send_req_ircc(self.get_command_code(‘TvPower’))
Sep 21 08:42:53 ca-vic-cm-hass02 hass-load[23040]: File “/etc/hass/lib/python3.5/site-packages/braviarc/braviarc.py”, line 108, in send_req_ircc
Sep 21 08:42:53 ca-vic-cm-hass02 hass-load[23040]: params+"</u:X_SendIRCC></s:Body></s:Envelope>").encode(“UTF-8”)
Sep 21 08:42:53 ca-vic-cm-hass02 hass-load[23040]: TypeError: Can’t convert ‘NoneType’ object to str implicitly

Of note, I can manually turn the TV on by sending a WOL packet from my HASS server. Any ideas?

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OK, did some packet sniffing on my network, looks like HASS is sending the WOL packet out the wrong interface (I have 2 networks, one for IOT devices and one for regular devices). Is there any way to force HASS to send WOL packets out a specific interface?

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Use script component for the one command. You may then specify eth0 or wlan0,etc.

These are separate physical network? (Not vlan?)

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Thanks for the suggestion, how would I go about binding the Bravia power-on command to a custom script?

The two networks are on separate VLANs (Same physical infrastructure for the most part) but I have HASS running in a VM and the VLAN trunk terminates on the hypervisor which splits each VLAN out to a separate virtual NIC on the VM, so from HomeAssistant’s perspective they are separate physical networks.