Connecting your Smart TV to Home Assistant for automation 

I'm glad to hear it! Getting the family on board is important when it comes to home automation ideas 😁

Thanks mate. I'm a big fan of your channel too!

It's a bit of fun, but sometimes can be frustrating!

Awesome automations! Those are things parents everywhere would get value from, thanks for sharing

That's not something I've personally tried to do, but take a look at this thread - it seems to be similar to your use case. Let me know if it helps! community.home-assistant.io/t/display-image-on-chromecast/78349/17

No problem!

That's weird! The Samsung integration mis-reports the TV turning on too. I had an automation set up in the bedroom to turn the lights to 30% brightness when the TV switched on. I was not popular when the lights turned on at 3am, because the integration reported the TV as on even though it wasn't 🤣

@@HomeAutomationGuy Yes - I’ve recently set up the Samsung TV integration with a new Samsung … the TV “restarts” often and my automation triggers my light dimming most unhelpfully when not actually appropriate! In frustration, I’ve turned the automation off! Unable to find a fix on HA!

Unfortunately the Netflix developers haven't correctly created their app to report back the status properly. I'm hoping they fix it one day soon as I have the same problem

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I absolutely love it!

I had to add the Nest doorbell to my Home Assistant first using the Google Nest integration

The same thing happens to me (mine takes about 5-10 seconds, not 30 luckily). I think the TV needs to boot up before it tells HA that it's on, which takes some time. No idea how to fix it sorry

If you are using wifi then changing to ethernet may help as it did for me

Yes, that's the one.

I send it directly to WebOS with my older LG TV. Not sure if it still works on newer models

I was able to find information for my TVs in the Home Assistant forums

You can control the TV that the Google TV is plugged into, you can control the volume, inputs and power (On/Off)

It still works fine for me, I just tested it on Home Assistant 2021.12.4

Weird. On my tv it no longer shows the stream but a home assistant logo instead..

Oh wait that was on version 12.3. Maybe it's fixed in 4...

On my TV, which is a few years old, it only works on Ethernet. I believe newer versions have an option in the TV settings to enable Wake On LAN over WiFi. Take a look at these screenshots for more information: support.quanticapps.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005985729-How-to-turn-on-my-LG-Smart-TV-using-the-App-WebOS-

@@HomeAutomationGuy Thanks man. It worked via WLAN like charm.

It might be, but that would depend on the TV you are using and the capabilities. There is a "Source" attribute that might change based on the app you're using.

Unfortunately webOS doesn't support play/pause natively. I now use a Google TV to play the media on my TV and it correctly reports the play/pause state and can be used in your automations.

@@HomeAutomationGuy Thanks for the info mate. This is the conclusions that I have come to as well, its disappointing that we can't get more details out of the TV. it would be nice to see in more details what info you can get from all the apps using google TV. this is one thing that I find disappointing about home assistant, lots of information but lots of holes in that information. it looks like Apple TV can not only report play/pause from apps but also the name of the channel that uploaded the currently playing RU-vid video. this can be used with the RU-vid API to display the thumbnail of the currently playing video. Can you get that info out of the google TV intergration?

@@HomeAutomationGuy really informative video, thank you! I have setup a Lights automation after watching this tutorial, I am using Chromecast Ultra and it works with everything apart from Netflix, which is frustrating and I can figure out what is wrong.

The problem is that Netflix haven't properly written their application so it reports the correct Playing/Paused status. It frustrates me too and I hope they fix it one day 😥

@@HomeAutomationGuy Ahhhhh yes makes sense! Thank you.

Try creating a template sensor that reads the state of the attribute or entity and use that to trigger the automation

@@HomeAutomationGuy Thank you so much! I just recently had a Conbee dongle shipped out there way and look forward to implementing the methods you mentioned.

I am sorry, I am not familiar with that TV

My apologies! It works with LG WebOS TVs. www.home-assistant.io/integrations/webostv/#notifications

I'm not sure, I've never tried

Nope. Just add it to the configuration.yaml file. I've heard rumours that it only works if you plug the TV into the network using a cable rather than WiFi, but I've never tested it myself. I hardwire my TV in

@@HomeAutomationGuy Indeed, wake on LAN is a functionality only available for LAN, a.k.a. wired network (ethernet). Wifi doesn't support this.

@@Flackon for newer LG models, it also support WoL via WiFi. Chances are good as long as the WoL is working properly at least from the official LG ThinQ app and your TV. If it does, then you can start to experiment with HA. I get it working having HA on a wired network LAN, having a bridge to the WiFi, and LG TV connected on that WiFi. Sometimes it does not turn on on the first WoL packet, so i just make a simple Repeat-Until automation within HA with delay, so i'm able to send few WoL packets until the TV finally turn on.

That's definitely something that can be done. I don't personally like using my voice to control my TV, which is why I've not set it up. I find it hard to yell over the TV audio and have the voice assistant clearly understand me and the remote control is just so easy and intuitive to use which makes it easy for guests to understand

Would be a pain if someone in the movie you're watching says "switch off the tv!" and your automation decides to react on that. 🙃 But TTS to the tv could be useful to e.g. tell me tomorrow's weather in those first 30 seconds after switching on the tv and waiting for the streaming box to boot up and initiate.

I am not sure what you mean - what happened to it?

@@HomeAutomationGuy now ok ... but on that day i cont c your photo in your youtube channel, it came like black image.

What's that for?

@@jorgewhite3315 You let a machine pick up its IP via DHCP, then set it as reserved (in most systems thats the proceedure) - so the machines IP is in the DHCP tables on the router. The machine itself doesn't have any special settings, no IP directly set. Any time that machine connects to the network (from a power cycle or whatever) it'll ask the DHCP server for an address - the DHCP server will always serve the same IP based on the client machines MAC address, which is burned on to the network interface chip from the factory and never changes. The biggest advantage is that its all managed on the router, instead of on separate machines. Other advantages include the ability for it to pick up the DNS server / gateway info from DHCP on the router.

Oh no, that's a shame! Does it prompt you to pair it with home assistant?

@@HomeAutomationGuy Nope it hasn't prompt me to pair with Home Assistant. I even start the whole process all over and still nothing happened 🤦🏾‍♂️

I'd start by checking that the "enable LG Connect Apps" feature is set in Network settings of the TV.

@@HomeAutomationGuy I have checked it and its all enabled. I am going to give it another try tomorrow because I have been trying it all afternoon brain's are fried now 🤦🏾‍♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣