Power on from Home-Assistant

hchris1 / Eversolo

Eversolo Integration for Home Assistant

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Power on from Home-Assistant #95

Open hostrup opened 4 weeks ago

hostrup commented 4 weeks ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I am using the intrgration with the DMP-A8. It works nice - and i primarily use it to turn on my Mono amps - when the amp is powered on.

Describe the solution you'd like

Could it somehow be possible to turn the unit on from the Mediaplayer? I now i can use WOL - but why not build it into the mediaplayer?

Describe alternatives you've considered

WOL switch :)

Additional context

Not much more than that.

hchris1 commented 4 weeks ago

Hi @hostrup,

I tried implementing that but didn't manage to do so. The API used in this integration is entirely unavailable when the device is turned off.

Does the Eversolo app offer this feature? If so, we can find out how they do it

I use the setting to turn on the device when the power is back on. I have some automations that turn power on and turn off the Eversolo and afterwards the power.

Chris

hostrup commented 4 weeks ago

Hi Chris! Yes i saw that the API seems totally unavailable when the device is in standby. But i found out that simply by sending a wake-on-lan packet to the IP - will wake i up. So i created a WOL sensor i HA - that i can use to turn it on.

I remember that i did something like this back when i had my LG tv:

media_player:

platform: webostv host: IP_removed name: TV timeout: 5 turn_on_action: service: wake_on_lan.send_magic_packet data: mac: hi-dd-en-ma-c0

Because turning it off works like a charm :).

hchris1 commented 2 weeks ago

Sorry for replying late. So the behavior that you'd like to see is that the integrations sends a magic packet when pressing the turn on button, right?

hchris1 commented 2 weeks ago

I think it might be better to use Home Assistant's built-in WOL feature instead. That way, users wouldn’t need to find the device's MAC address during setup, which simplifies things a bit. Also, that approach may not work reliably over WiFi connections.

hostrup commented 2 weeks ago

Hi! i just created a simple switch - and that works nice. i think i might look into creating a new mediaplayer as a template - and then use that switch as on / off - then i can use the "player control" to turn it on and off.

Everything else works wonders.