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RogerSelwyn / Home_Assistant_SkyQ_MediaPlayer

Home Assistant SkyQ Media player component
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[Feature Request] Enable capability to perform Pre-Channel Change action whilst using Home Assistant Media Player for channel change #172

Open ChrisHammond56 opened 1 week ago

ChrisHammond56 commented 1 week ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When using the main Home Assistant GUI to change channel via the drop-down list (not using switches), the box can change channel fine. However, should the box be at the PIN prompt, or in an APP for example. The channel change will not work.

Describe the solution you'd like
What would be useful is a pre-channel or 'always perform this action' before a channel change. For example, if the page is waiting for the PIN, then performing the PIN KEYS (with an optional BACKUP) then the channel would work. This way, the pre-action would be (1)PIN, (2)BACKUP, (3)CHANNEL?

Describe alternatives you've considered
I am currently using an automation to change channel with the correct sequence, and this seems to be stable. However, the media player GUI does not use automations for channel switching

Additional context
One option could be link the channel change to an automation in HA, but not sure if that is scalable. Note: I thought I did see an option to have a 'perform for every channel', but cannot seem to find that.

RogerSelwyn commented 1 week ago

This may be very difficult for me to develop since I no longer have a SkyQ box (sorry cost was getting ridiculous). You could potentially string multiple service call together to do what you need, or create a custom source with the relevant commands string together.

ChrisHammond56 commented 1 week ago

I am open to Beta testing code if that's an option. The services approach isn't really viable, as I am doing that with the automation via a WebHook currently (but that's not via the GUI). The custom source seems even more longwinded as I would need to create many custom sources (unless I have misunderstood your potential solution). Thanks

RogerSelwyn commented 1 week ago

I’m afraid I can’t create beta test code with no box to develop again. I’m open to a PR.

ChrisHammond56 commented 1 week ago

That sounds promising. I would need to fit it in with my very limited spare time, but that's one option I suppose....

RogerSelwyn commented 1 week ago

To be honest I’ve considered archiving the integration, but I know if I do HACS will remove it and that step is a bit unneeded. I can generally fix things caused by core changes, but developing new is very difficult.