Livebox TV UHD

This is a custom component to allow control of Livebox TV UHD in Homeassistant.

• 🆕 Support for orange.fr and orange.pl Livebox (thanks to WRLPDZ) 🆕
• Power On/Off
• Play/Pause
• Next/Previous (Channel)
• Volume (+/-/mute)
• Channel source
• Retrieval for displaying in home assistant of:
  • Channel name
  • Show
  • Show background image
  • Show time
  • Serie title, season and episode

Two platform entities are available :

• media player entity to handle the features above
• remote entity to bring additional controls

Installation

Recommanded

Use HACS.

Manual

1. Using the tool of choice open the directory (folder) for your HA configuration (where you find configuration.yaml).
2. If you do not have a custom_components directory (folder) there, you need to create it.
3. In the custom_components directory (folder) create a new folder called liveboxtvuhd.
4. Download all the files from the custom_components/liveboxtvuhd/ directory (folder) in this repository.
5. Place the files you downloaded in the new directory (folder) you created.
6. Restart Home Assistant

Configuration

Media Player

Edit configuration.yaml and add liveboxtvuhd as a new media_player

media_player:
  - platform: liveboxtvuhd
    name: livebox-salon
    host: 192.168.1.2
    port: 8080
    scan_interval: 30
    country: france

Name	Required	Description	Default
name	no	Friendly name	livebox_salon
host	yes	Host or ip address
port	no	port number	8080
scan_interval	no	Time between scan in seconds	30
country	no	choose between france and poland	france

Remote

(Optional) add remote entity to have additional commands, with the same parameters :

remote:
  - platform: liveboxtvuhd
    name: livebox_salon
    host: 192.168.1.2
    port: 8080
    scan_interval: 30
    country: france

Available commands for remote entity :

Command	Description
POWER	Power toggle
0	0
1	1
2	2
3	3
4	4
5	5
6	6
7	7
8	8
9	9
CH+	Channel Up
CH-	Channel Down
VOL+	Volume Up
VOL-	Volume Down
MUTE	Mute
UP	Cursor Up
DOWN	Cursor Down
LEFT	Cursor Left
RIGHT	Cursor Right
OK	OK
BACK	Back
MENU	Menu
PLAY/PAUSE	Play/Pause
FBWD	Rewind
FFWD	Fast Forward
REC	Record
VOD	VOD
GUIDE	GUIDE

Examples

Media Player

With standard media-player

With mini-media-player:

type: 'custom:mini-media-player'
entity: media_player.livebox_salon
artwork: full-cover
volume_stateless: true

Remote

With universal-remote-card (thanks to WarC0zes)

type: custom:universal-remote-card
rows:
  - power
  - circlepad
  - - back
    - menu
  - - - volume_up
      - volume_down
    - - volume_mute
    - - channel_up
      - channel_down
  - numpad
  - - rewind
    - play_pause
    - fast_forward
  - guide
  - - netflix
    - prime
remote_id: remote.livebox_salon
media_player_id: media_player.livebox_salon
platform: Android TV
custom_actions:
  - type: button
    name: netflix
    tap_action:
      action: perform-action
      perform_action: remote.send_command
      target:
        entity_id: remote.livebox_salon
      data:
        hold_secs: 0
        command:
          - 6
          - 6
    icon: phu:netflix
    haptics: true
    styles: ""
  - type: button
    name: prime
    icon: phu:prime-video
    tap_action:
      action: perform-action
      perform_action: remote.send_command
      target:
        entity_id: remote.livebox_salon
      data:
        hold_secs: 0
        command:
          - 6
          - 7
    haptics: true
  - type: circlepad
    name: circlepad
    tap_action:
      action: key
      key: OK
    up:
      icon: mdi:chevron-up
      tap_action:
        action: key
        key: UP
      hold_action:
        action: repeat
      type: button
    down:
      icon: mdi:chevron-down
      tap_action:
        action: key
        key: DOWN
      hold_action:
        action: repeat
      type: button
    left:
      icon: mdi:chevron-left
      tap_action:
        action: key
        key: LEFT
      hold_action:
        action: repeat
      type: button
    right:
      icon: mdi:chevron-right
      tap_action:
        action: key
        key: RIGHT
      hold_action:
        action: repeat
      type: button
    icon: ok
    styles: |-
      :host {
        width: 230px;      
      }
      .circlepad {
        border: 1px solid #444;
        background: radial-gradient(circle at top left, #202020 15%, #303030 100%);
        --icon-color: rgba(128,128,128,0.5);
      }

      #center::part(button) {
        background: radial-gradient(circle at top left, #303030 15%, #101010 100%);
        border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
      }
      #center::part(icon) {
       color: rgba(128,128,128, 0.8);
        --size: 46px;
      }

      #left,
      #right {
        width: 100%;
      }
  - type: button
    name: back
    tap_action:
      action: key
      key: BACK
    icon: mdi:arrow-u-left-top
  - type: button
    name: channel_up
    tap_action:
      action: key
      key: CHANNEL_UP
    icon: mdi:chevron-up
  - type: button
    name: channel_down
    tap_action:
      action: key
      key: CHANNEL_DOWN
    icon: mdi:chevron-down
  - type: button
    name: volume_up
    tap_action:
      action: key
      key: VOLUME_UP
    hold_action:
      action: repeat
    icon: mdi:plus
  - type: button
    name: volume_down
    tap_action:
      action: key
      key: VOLUME_DOWN
    hold_action:
      action: repeat
    icon: mdi:minus
  - type: button
    name: volume_mute
    tap_action:
      action: key
      key: MUTE
    icon: mdi:volume-mute
styles: |-
  #power::part(icon) {
  color: rgb(229, 9, 20);
  }
  #menu::part(icon) {
  color: rgb(229, 9, 20);
  }  
  #netflix::part(icon) {
  color: rgb(229, 9, 20);
  }
  #prime::part(icon) {
  color: rgb(0, 165, 222);
  }
custom_icons:
  - name: ok
    path: >-
      M7 7A2 2 0 005 9V15A2 2 0 007 17H9A2 2 0 0011 15V9A2 2 0 009 7H7M7
      9H9V15H7V9ZM13 7V17H15V13.7L17 17H19L16 12 19 7H17L15 10.3V7H13Z
haptics: true
card_mod:
  style: |
    ha-card {
      margin-left: 67px;
      width: 250px;
    }
keyboard_id: remote.livebox_salon
grid_options:
  columns: 6
  rows: 1

To trigger additional commands with the remote entity :

service: remote.send_command
data:
  num_repeats: 1
  delay_secs: 0.4
  hold_secs: 0
  command: UP
target:
  entity_id: remote.livebox_salon