Homebridge Plugin for LG 2012 Series TVs

Homebridge Plugin based off (https://npmjs.org/package/homebridge-lgtv2) to allow Siri to control LGTV 2012 series.

Hacked together to work with the native IOS 10 Home App, the plugin emulates a light bulb, and maps the brightness control to volume.

Features

• Power on/off (Works with IOS Home App)

• Change volume (Works with IOS Home App) The Brightness (Volume) is controlled by percentage, according to the max_volume parameter. My TV can go to 50, but this seems way to loud: so the default is 20. A min_volume parameter mutes the tv when the volume is lowered. to try and prevent homekit setting power to 0, as its current behaviour

Very Experimental

• Channel + Volume Control This is possible using the hue control in the Elgato Eve app.

Setting "false_run" to true in the config can trys prevent the channel changes whilst experimenting with this

Install

npm install -g homebridge-lgtv-2012

Get TV Pairing key

Replacing 172.16.0.10 with your TV's ip

cd $NODE_PATH/homebridge-lgtv-2012
node -e "ip = '172.16.0.10'; lg = require('lgtv-2012').lgtv; tv = new lg({host: ip}); tv.pair_request()"

Configuration example

{
  "accessories": [
    {
      "accessory": "lgtv-2012",
      "name": "TV",
      "ip": "10.0.1.4",
      "pairingKey": "123456", 
      "min_volume": 2, "max_volume": 20,
      "on_command": "MUTE"
    }
  ]
}

Configuration fields

• accessory [required] Must always be lgtv-2012
• name [required] Name of your accessory
• ip [required] IP address of your tv
• pairingKey [required] Must be provided to control the TV. If not provided, pairing key should be shown on the tv during accessory setup.
• max_volume [optional] Upper Volume Limit (default: 20)
• min_volume [optional] Lower Volume Limit before muting the TV (default: 2)
• on_command [optional] Wake-on-Lan is not supported, so command to send when siri is asked to "Turn TV on" (default: "MUTE")