Bravia!TVOS 3.0

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

This plugin supports following functions:

Power Switch (on/off)
Inputs like HDMI, Scart, CEC Devices, AV, WIFI, DVB:T, DVB:C etc.
Apps like YouTube, Prime Video etc.
Channels: Your favourite channels as inputs.
Remote control: native iOS Remote control
Login with PSK or without PSK (for older models)
WOL support Wake on Lan

Installation instructions

After Homebridge has been installed:

sudo npm i -g homebridge-bravia-tvos@latest

Preparing the TV (PSK)

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

Preparing the TV (without PSK)

Set Remote start to ON (Settings -> Network -> Remote Start)
Change Authentication to Normal (Settings -> Network -> IP Control -> Authentication)

Basic configuration

{
"bridge": {
  ...
},
"accessories": [
  ...
],
"platforms": [
   {
     "platform": "BraviaOSPlatform",
     "tvs": [
       {
         "name": "Sony Lounge",
         "ip": "192.168.178.3",
         "port": 80,
         "psk": "lipsum555"
       }
     ],
     "interval": 10
   }
]
}

See Example Config for more details.

Options

Attributes	Required	Usage
name	Yes	Unique Name for the TV Accessory.
ip	Yes	IP adress from your Sony Bravia Android TV
mac	No	MAC address from TV (required if using WOL!)
port	No	If you have problems with connecting to the TV, try a different port (Default: 80)
psk	No	Your PRE SHARED KEY (see preparing the TV above)
extraInputs	No	Inputs for "Scart, Composite, Wifidisplay" (Default: false)
cecInputs	No	Inputs for connected cec devices like Apple TV (Default: false)
channelInputs	No	An Array of Channel input types (DVBT/DVBC/DVBS/ANALOG) (Default: false)
channels	No	List of your favourite channels (channel numbers from tv and source) to display these as inputs in the TV accessory (Default: false)
apps	No	List of your favourite apps to display as inputs in the TV accessory (Default: false)
wol	No	Wake On Lan (Default: false)
customSpeaker	No	If true, an extra speaker accessory will be published to HomeKit (Default: false)
speakerType	No	Type of the custom speaker (switch, lightbulb, speaker) (Default: speaker)
interval	No	Polling interval in seconds (Default: 10s)

Multiple TVs

If you have added multiple TVs to homebridge via this plugin, please note that all TVs except the first one will be published as "external accessories" ! That means, you need to add this TVs manually to HomeKit. It will be not exposed via the bridge. This is necessary due to handling of the TVs via Apple

Supported clients

This plugin has been verified to work with the following apps on iOS 12.2:

iOS 12.2
Apple Home (partial)
Homebridge v0.4.46

(All 3rd party apps like Elgato Eve etc are not supported at this time. Apple is blocking 3th party apps from accessing the TV accessory)

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.

HomeBridge with debug mode: DEBUG=BraviaPlatform,BraviaPlatformApi and homebridge -D

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