Livebox TV UHD

This is a custom component to allow control of Livebox TV UHD in Homeassistant.

• 🆕 Support for orange.fr and orange.pl Livebox (thanks to WRLPDZ) 🆕
• Power On/Off
• Play/Pause
• Next/Previous (Channel)
• Volume (+/-/mute)
• Channel source
• Retrieval for displaying in home assistant of:
  • Channel name
  • Show
  • Show background image
  • Show time
  • Serie title, season and episode

Two platform entities are available :

• media player entity to handle the features above
• remote entity to bring additional controls

Installation

Recommanded

Use HACS.

Manual

1. Using the tool of choice open the directory (folder) for your HA configuration (where you find configuration.yaml).
2. If you do not have a custom_components directory (folder) there, you need to create it.
3. In the custom_components directory (folder) create a new folder called liveboxtvuhd.
4. Download all the files from the custom_components/liveboxtvuhd/ directory (folder) in this repository.
5. Place the files you downloaded in the new directory (folder) you created.
6. Restart Home Assistant

Configuration

Edit configuration.yaml and add liveboxtvuhd as a new media_player

media_player:
  - platform: liveboxtvuhd
    name: Livebox
    host: 192.168.1.2
    port: 8080
    scan_interval: 30
    country: poland

(Optional) remote entity to have additional commands, with the same parameters :

remote:
  - platform: liveboxtvuhd
    name: Livebox remote
    host: 192.168.1.2
    port: 8080
    scan_interval: 30
    country: poland

Name	Required	Description	Default
name	no	Friendly name	liveboxtvuhd
host	yes	Host or ip address
port	no	port number	8080
scan_interval	no	Time between scan in seconds	10
country	no	choose between france and poland	france

Available commands for remote entity :

Command	Description
POWER	Power toggle
0	0
1	1
2	2
3	3
4	4
5	5
6	6
7	7
8	8
9	9
CH+	Channel Up
CH-	Channel Down
VOL+	Volume Up
VOL-	Volume Down
MUTE	Mute
UP	Cursor Up
DOWN	Cursor Down
LEFT	Cursor Left
RIGHT	Cursor Right
OK	OK
BACK	Back
MENU	Menu
PLAY/PAUSE	Play/Pause
FBWD	Rewind
FFWD	Fast Forward
REC	Record
VOD	VOD
GUIDE	GUIDE

Examples

With mini-media-player:

type: 'custom:mini-media-player'
entity: media_player.livebox
artwork: full-cover
volume_stateless: true

With standard media-player

To trigger additional commands with the remote entity :

service: remote.send_command
data:
  num_repeats: 1
  delay_secs: 0.4
  hold_secs: 0
  command: UP
target:
  entity_id: remote.livebox_remote