Power on and off

[jscherry]

Can someone please explain how to get the power on and off to work. TV is connected directly to ethernet and can get power off through the tv entity. I had to set up a switch to get the wake on lan to power the tv on. But the power button on the remote does nothing. Am I doing something wrong? All the other functions of the remote work fine?

[maverik80]

Can someone please explain how to get the power on and off to work. TV is connected directly to ethernet and can get power off through the tv entity. I had to set up a switch to get the wake on lan to power the tv on. But the power button on the remote does nothing. Am I doing something wrong? All the other functions of the remote work fine?

hello, I also have the same problem, everything was born since they deprecated the yaml configuration and inserted the GUI, there was an update of the card, inserted the mac in the card but now it doesn't even turn it off.

[madmicio]

please try the new version. no switches, no automation, no scripts are required. you only need to add the mac address in the card configuration

[jscherry]

I updated yesterday and added the MAC address under the entity in the card and the power button still does nothing? I have wake on lan working but had to set up a switch to get power on, I can power off through the entity but the entity won’t power on?

[jscherry]

Should I get rid of the power on switch in the yaml? Here’s my yaml:

• platform: wake_on_lan name: WebOS_TV_turnon host: 192.168.1.27 "mac": "78:5d:c8:3f:b6:d1" broadcast_address: 192.168.1.255

  webostv: name: WebOS TV host: 192.168.1.27 turn_on_action: service: wake_on_lan.send_magic_packet data: "mac": "78:5d:c8:3f:b6:d1" "broadcast_address": "192.168.1.255"

[madmicio]

in card config

[madmicio]

in configuration.yaml if the service was not already present, remember to restart Home Assistant

[madmicio]

this is not necessary

[jscherry]

Made the changes and removed switch yaml and config yaml. The tv will now turn off with the remote but will not turn on. I have updated with the two new versions released today?

[jscherry]

I have wake_on_lan in config.

[baczus]

In my case, after changes proposed by @madmicio everything works. Thanks :)

[Midivir]

I have an LG TV that has issues with WOL so I started using an IR and RF Universal Remote (Broadlink RM4). I have configured the TV to be turned on with a script but with this change it seems like it only allows WOL. Is there any way to use a script for the power on action from the remote instead?

My webostv.yaml host: x.x.x.x name: "TV" turn_on_action: service: script.tv_power

And the Script tv_power: sequence:

• service: remote.send_command data: command: Power device: TV target: entity_id: remote.broadlink_remote mode: single alias: TV Power icon: mdi:power

[star114]

I have same issue like @Midivir ‘s comment. I used harmony remote command to turn on action and now I made a automation for it. Can it be possible to have a mac address as an option for this lovelace?

[shlomki]

I second that. I don't see why a lovelace card needs to contain sensitive information such as MAC addresses. The LG WebOS component allows to use secrets, but doing this in lovelace is bad practice because it doesn't allow the use of secrets. The MAC address definitely should be an optional field, and use the media_player.turn_on service if it wasn't provided.

[triumfas]

I have wake_on_lan: added to configuration.yaml. I'm also using it to wake up my PC. After adding mac to the card I could turn off TV, but turning on didn't work. Played around but couldn't figure out what I'm doing wrong or what part of configuration is missing. Ended up defining WOL switch in configuration.yaml and adding a button next to the remote. Would be nice to have a clear description where and what needs to be done as simply adding mac to the card and removing configuration from configuration.yaml file does not work.

[0n3man]

Just started using this card. Wake_on_lan was not initially working. I figured it had to do with some setting on the TV. Looked around and found All Settings -> General -> Devices -> External Devices -> TV On With Mobile -> Turn on via WiFi,which was off. My TV is hard wired, so I'm not using WiFi. I still needed this feature enabled for wake_on_lan to work.

[arthurEspooner]

Just started using this card. Wake_on_lan was not initially working. I figured it had to do with some setting on the TV. Looked around and found All Settings -> General -> Devices -> External Devices -> TV On With Mobile -> Turn on via WiFi,which was off. My TV is hard wired, so I'm not using WiFi. I still needed this feature enabled for wake_on_lan to work.

i had the same issue, thanks. this should be added to the docs for wake on lan as it does not work without it, at least on some TVs as seen.

also to note, this was in a different location on my tv. on my recent OLED, it's under Connection > Mobile TV On

[Chrusciki]

I have issue with my TV

he MAC address definitely should be an optional field, and use the media_player.turn_on service if it wasn't provided.

I have my TV on wifi and the WOL would not update the TV. following your suggestion i added the button to call the wake on lan service but with the optional IP field filled in and it works! thanks for the tip. now how to integrate that into the lg remote...

so i feel like the WOL has some issues with WIFI connected TVs but it does work when directly sending the magic packet to mac/ip combo

[dougmaitelli]

May I suggest the README file of this repo to be update and include details about the wake_on_lan in the configuration file requirement and other troubleshooting from this thread?

[andrewgl504]

For anyone else that finds this thread, here's what I had to add to configuration.yaml to allow the remote to power on. I had the wake on lan setting on the tv already on but needed to add this to make it work:

switch:
  - platform: wake_on_lan
    name: lg
    mac: !secret lg_mac

and then in secrets.yaml (not my mac):

lg_mac: 12:3A:60:84:19:05