Help with Gen1 smart Bravia - doesn't use pin

[E46er]

Hi all, Is there any way to use this plugin with Gen1 smart bravias? They do not require pin or PSK etc

I have 2 units that would be great to get working with homebridge!

Thanks for your help

[normen]

It works with a lot of Sony TVs but I don't know what exactly you mean so I guess just trying it would make most sense.

[E46er]

On the first generation smart bravias ( non android ), there was no pin or psk security. I cannot get the plug-in to work without entering a pin for the tv, but of course the tv does not need one.

[normen]

You can try and set pwd = "mybasicpass" in your config.json after setting a basic auth password in your TV.

[E46er]

The TV has no option to set any type of password / pin or PSK. Is there a config option that removes the Pin / authentication requirement?

[normen]

What happens when you set a password as I described?

[E46er]

[BraviaPlatform] Error: Error: connect EHOSTDOWN 192.168.8.102:80 - Local (192.168.8.91:51530) at internalConnect (node:net:931:16) at defaultTriggerAsyncIdScope (node:internal/async_hooks:454:18) at node:net:1022:9 at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:78:11) { errno: -64, code: 'EHOSTDOWN', syscall: 'connect', address: '192.168.8.102', port: 80

[E46er]

sorry ignore that log - the IP changed. Now I have: [BraviaPlatform] Need to authenticate with TV! [2/7/2022, 9:14:08 AM] [BraviaPlatform] Please enter the PIN that appears on your TV at http://Deans-Mac-mini.local:8999 [2/7/2022, 9:14:08 AM] [BraviaPlatform] PIN entry web server listening

[normen]

That message means that the TV can't be connected to at all, it doesn't even get to the authentication stage. Might be because its not compatible to the http protocol of the current TVs or that theres a network issue.

[normen]

[BraviaPlatform] Need to authenticate with TV! [2/7/2022, 9:14:08 AM] [BraviaPlatform] Please enter the PIN that appears on your TV at http://Deans-Mac-mini.local:8999

If this appears even though you have a "pwd": "blah" entry in your config.json then I guess you're out of luck, the TV just won't talk to us. Its kind of strange that there would be a http interface on that TV without any security option though.

[E46er]

my research has found that the gen 1 bravias, built around 2013 did not have any form of security option. They operate with the same IP protocol thou.. I'm attempting to modify the index.js to remove the authentication part.. but I'm a learner with json etc, so I'm guessing a fair bit!

[normen]

my research has found that the gen 1 bravias, built around 2013 did not have any form of security option. They operate with the same IP protocol thou.. I'm attempting to modify the index.js to remove the authentication part.. but I'm a learner with json etc, so I'm guessing a fair bit!

If you set a "pwd" then the request is basically a normal request with a password in the header. The TV is still answering with nothing apparently.

If you want to brute-force avoid the check make the if check in line 257 always fail.