homebridge-bravia-tvos

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Info

This is a plugin for Homebridge to control your Sony Bravia Android TV.

This plugin supports following functions:

• Power Switch
• Inputs: like HDMI, Scart, CEC Devices, AV, WIFI etc.
• Apps: like YouTube, Prime Video etc.
• Channels: Your favourite channels as inputs.
• Remote control: native iOS Remote control with customizable commands
• Login: with Pre-Shared Key or Token (PIN)
• WOL: supports Wake on Lan
• Speaker: with support for three types of speaker (speaker, switch with custom charactersitic or lightbulb)
• Config UI X Custom UI

Installation instructions

After Homebridge has been installed:

sudo npm i -g [email protected]

Preparing the TV

TV Settings

• Set Remote start to ON (Settings -> Network -> Remote Start)
• Change Authentication to Normal and Pre-Shared Key (Settings -> Network -> IP Control -> Authentication)

If you want to use authentication with a Pre-Shared key, please do following steps:

• Enter a Pre-Shared Key (Settings -> Network -> IP control -> Pre-Shared Key)

Configuration (Config UI X)

Bravia TV OS v4.1 supports a custom user interface making configuration via homebridge-config-ui-x even easier! Below you can see how easy it is to create, edit or delete a new TV for the config.json using the custom user interface. To use the custom user interface you need at least homebridge-config-ui-x v4.34.0!

Configuration (Manually)

If you cannot use the custom user interface or want to edit the config.json manually, you must first decide which authentication to use.

a) PIN Authentication (prefered)

To use the PIN authentication you must first install the bravia module:

sudo npm i -g @seydx/[email protected]

And to be able to use the plugin with the PIN procedure your credentials must be created first.

You can create the credentials as follows:

bravia pair <host> -p 80 -n MyTV -t 5

• <host>: The address of your Bravia TV (eg 192.168.178.1)
• -n: Name for the app (Default Bravia)
• -p: The port of your Bravia TV (Default: 80)
• -t: The amount of time (in seconds) to wait for the response (Default 5s)

The PIN displayed on the TV must then be entered in the terminal. This will generate a credentials <Object> like this:

{
  name: 'MyTV',
  uuid: 'e9812807-d394-407c-b657-c89a98804e65',
  token: 'A0B9B9D7580466F22EE8F8EA148863774ACCE203',
  expires: 'Fr., 26 Apr. 2009 21:42:48 GMT+00:00'
}

You need to put the application name and application uuid in your config.json.

Example:

{
  "name": "Sony TV",
  "ip": "192.168.178.123",
  "appName": "MyTV",
  "appUUID": "e9812807-d394-407c-b657-c89a98804e65",
  ...
}

b) PSK Authentication

• Enter a Pre-Shared Key (Settings -> Network -> IP control -> Pre-Shared Key)

You need to put the PSK entered in your tv also in your config.json.

Example:

{
  "name": "Sony TV",
  "ip": "192.168.178.123",
  "psk": "MYPSK"
  ...
}

Example BASIC config

{
"bridge": {
  ...
},
"accessories": [
  ...
],
"platforms": [
   {
     "platform": "BraviaOSPlatform"
     "name": "BraviaTVOS",
     "debug": true,
     "tvs": [
       {
         "name": "Sony TV",
         "ip": "192.168.178.123",
         "psk": "0000",
         "inputs": [
           "extInput:cec",
           "extInput:hdmi"
         ],
         "apps": [
           "YouTube",
           "Smart IPTV"
         ],
         "channels": [
           {
             "channel": 97,
             "source": "tv:dvbt"
           }
         ],
         "commands": [
           "AAAAAQAAAAEAAABgAw=="
         ],
         "speaker": {
           "output": "speaker",
           "accType": "lightbulb"
         },
       }
     ]
   }
]
}

See Example Config for a FULL config example.

Options Genral

Options TV

Supported clients

This plugin has been verified to work with the following apps on iOS 14:

• iOS 14
• Apple Home
• 3rd party apps like Elgato EVE (TV accessory still not supported because apple blocking it)
• Homebridge v1.1.6+

Contributing

You can contribute to this homebridge plugin in following ways:

• Report issues and help verify fixes as they are checked in.
• Review the source code changes.
• Contribute bug fixes.
• Contribute changes to extend the capabilities

Pull requests are accepted.

Troubleshooting

If you have any issues with the plugin or TV services then you can run homebridge in debug mode, which will provide some additional information. This might be useful for debugging issues. Just enable Debug in your config and restart homebridge.

Disclaimer

All product and company names are trademarks™ or registered® trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.