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lukasroegner / homebridge-philips-hue-sync-box

Homebridge plugin for the Philips Hue Sync Box.
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TV assessory input channel names missing #13

Closed padman74 closed 4 years ago

padman74 commented 4 years ago

Hello,

I'm happy to see that a homebridge add-ons exists since the Siri shortcut solution is not so nice. Unfortunately the TV accessory has an issue. It worked after using the add-on the first time but now it lost its HDMI input channels. It shows off-on-on-on-on where the first off is for the sync box itself. When I open the accessory in the home app it doesn't give me the chance to choose the channel. I saw it populating the names another time but I can't recall what I did differently, mostly it doesn't work.

Another feature that would be nice is to choose between video, music and game mode, maybe with another TV accessory?

Kind regards Volker

lukasroegner commented 4 years ago

Hi @padman74,

Unfortunately the TV accessory has an issue. It worked after using the add-on the first time but now it lost its HDMI input channels. It shows off-on-on-on-on where the first off is for the sync box itself. When I open the accessory in the home app it doesn't give me the chance to choose the channel. I saw it populating the names another time but I can't recall what I did differently, mostly it doesn't work.

Regarding your issue with HDMI inputs not being displayed correctly: maybe @josiasmontag has an idea why this is happening? He implemented the TV accessory.

Another feature that would be nice is to choose between video, music and game mode, maybe with another TV accessory?

Please create a new issue for this feature request, otherwise is cannot be tracked properly.

lukasroegner commented 4 years ago

@padman74,

In order for all features to work properly, I highly suggest to:

  1. Update the plugin version
  2. Set "tvAccessory": false in the config
  3. Restart Homebridge (this will remove the TV from HomeKit)
  4. Set "tvAccessory": true in the config
  5. Restart Homebridge (this will add the TV again, this time with all the mentioned features)
padman74 commented 4 years ago

Thank you. That solved the issue

huongminh commented 4 years ago

@padman74,

  • I think the issue is resolved now with the latest version 0.4.3.
  • I fixed the code so that renaming the HDMI inputs in the Home app is persisted across restarts.
  • Inputs can be hidden (unchecking the orange check box) in the Home app, this is also persisted across restarts.

In order for all features to work properly, I highly suggest to:

  1. Update the plugin version
  2. Set "tvAccessory": false in the config
  3. Restart Homebridge (this will remove the TV from HomeKit)
  4. Set "tvAccessory": true in the config
  5. Restart Homebridge (this will add the TV again, this time with all the mentioned features)

I am with version 0.6.1 (the latest) and follow instruction to add the tv accessory successfully. When I reboot the my server (Raspberry Pi 3) all HDMI inputs are still working. However, if I unplugged the power cord (I tried to replicate a power cut situation) then when replug it again, the TV accessories would break again, losing all HDMI channels, and show off-on-on-on-on as if there are 5 switches.