Homey WebOS

With the WebOS Plus app combined with Homey you can control your LG TV from anywhere in the world.

Main features:

• No infrared! TV is being completely controlled via ethernet
• Stable on/off detection
• WakeOnLan to turn the tv on (TV must be connected with ethernet cable)
• Remote control button simulation to create amazing complex flows on your tv such as changing energy saving when playing music!

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How to install from release zip

Make sure you have NPM installed

Make sure you have homey installed npm i -g homey

Download the release file webos-plus-v*.zip for the latest release and unzip.

Inside this folder run the command homey app install. Homey probably needs you to authenticate so just follow the steps provided in the terminal.

How to install for source

Make sure you have NPM installed

Make sure you have homey installed npm i -g homey

Clone/download the repo to a folder on your computer.

Inside this folder run the command npm run deploy. Homey probably needs you to authenticate so just follow the steps provided in the terminal.

All features

App capabilities are:

• Change volume
• Mute/unmute
• Change channel
• Media controls
• Power on/off over ethernet with WOL

Besides the basic capabilities you can create amazing flows:

• Actions:

  • On/off
  • Volume up/down
  • Set volume
  • Mute/unmute
  • Channel up/down
  • Set channel via number
  • Set channel via list selection
  • Set input source or app via list selection
  • Simulate remote control button (e.g. Left, Exit, Menu, Ok)
  • Send toast messages with icon
  • Media controls
  • Alert message, see button example below

    buttons: [
    {
     label: 'Netflix',
     onclick: 'luna://com.webos.applicationManager/launch',
     params: {id: 'netflix'},
     buttonType: 'confirm',
     focus: true,
    }, {
     label: 'Google',
     onclick: 'luna://com.webos.applicationManager/launch',
     params: {id: 'com.webos.app.browser', target: 'https://google.nl'},
     buttonType: 'confirm'
    }, {
     label: 'Cancel',
     buttonType: 'cancel'
    },
    ],

• Conditions:

  • On/Off
  • Current volume
  • Muted/unmuted
  • Current channel
  • Current app/input

• Triggers:

  • On/Off
  • Channel change
  • Volume change
  • Mute change
  • App/input change
  • Sound output change
  • Media controls

Examples

Sorry, my Homey is in Dutch so you'll have to figure out any language differences yourself.

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