Because it’s such a large binding that it’s going to take forever to bring it up to standards (which I’m in the process of doing right now).
Now that I’ve gotten done with the NEEO binding - I’ve gone back the Sony one to do four things:
Bring it up to standards (rewrite portions of the code, document it, etc)
Fix some of the issues people have been posting about
Try to solve some long standing authentication issues (why certain sony things [like the HT-NT/RT soundbars] won’t work).
Take care of some life cycle issues
Where I stand:
I’ve rewritten/documented the DIAL service and am testing the new code now.
Next will be SimpleIP (will be fast since it’s sooo small)
After that IRCC (should take a few weeks)
ScalarWeb - this is by far the largest and most complicated piece and may take awhile (especially because I have outstanding issues you all have documented).
Note: the next version will NOT be backwards compatible - I’m shortening thing UIDs (replaced UUID with MAC address), shortened channel IDs, etc.
Some sony tvs need their services turned on in settings. Go through settings->network and see if there is ‘stuff’ you can turn on (‘stuff’ is relative to the tv - for some it’s remote device settings, home network settings, turn on remotely [which is WOL], etc). I’d try to turn as much on as possible and see if it’s discovered. If it’s not, your TV probably doesn’t support remote control.
Hi there,
I’ve installed and tested the binding today.
It works fine - from the very beginning.
Thanks to @tmrobert8!
Two things to share - i watched together with my Sony TV.
It’s already a few years old - So I’m using IRCC commands.
The TV doesn’t wake up over LAN. I’ll use a switchable plug (plug) to control the TV from now - saving wattage as side effect.
I struggled a bit selecting the input source. But no problem any longer. I found a hotkey for switching to TV input at the beginning. After that i can control everything with the up and down keys.
Hey tmrobert8 hope you had some nice days! i read that you posted an update that works with 2.2 stable. Did you maybe include the bugfix i mentioned on Nov 3:
I have some updates.
My TV restarted itself (i guess because of a bug) these days and after that the binding did not work anymore (although the server was running again on the TV). I restarted my raspberry and everything worked again. Maybe there is some kind of timeout or so?
You should check if there is an option to enable the SimpleIP protocol in your TV settings. On my TV it is quite hard to find and disabled by default. After TV firmware updates it is even often disabled again.
Sorry for asking, but is there a way to force the TV to generate a new scalar accessCode? Obviously the thing option is set to “RQST” but it does not generate a new one. Even tried to set a fake code and then go back to “RQST” without success.
There was one at the very first try, but i missed it because it closed after like 60s.
Now i have the problem, that the port of the scalarWebUri changes regularly. It works with “RQST” until the TV changes the port
I had the same problem when I tried to use this binding. It seems that it relies on the apache http client, which isn’t part of the openhab distribution.
You can try installing the missing dependencies by running the following commands in your client session:
Ideally, the permanent solution is probably that the binding should be changed to use the jetty HTTP client that’s included in openhab, or if there’s a technical reason that’s not possible (I’ve run into these myself), include the jars directly in the binding.
Take a look at the .map file it creates (which shows all the commands supported by your TV) - you should find a command “Hdmi1”, “Hdmi2” or something to that effect - you just need to send “Hdmi1” (or whatever the map file says) to the ircc command channel to switch to that input.
Not publicly fixed yet but definitely fixed in my latest version (which I’m still updating for the merge). I addressed the whole lifecycle issue I had in the prior versions (basically will retry attempts if going offline) and will let everyone know when I post it.
As @andirs said, you need to enable simpleip (it’s never default on) and what it’s called in the settings is different from tv to tv. Basically go into your settings->network and enable anything sounding like a remote things (enable remote devices, enable pro devices, enable home network, etc)
@andirs
Ran out of time answering questions but will get back to you on this (need to think on it a bit anyway) since there are two weird things you mention (not being able to rerequest and the changing port - which is a first I’ve head of that!)
What is the status of the binding when you want to do a new “RQST”? I believe the binding will ignore the code/RQST if it’s the TV already has been authenticated. You may want to check the network settings -> remote devices (or something to that effect) and see if you see a “openHAB” entry. If you do, delete it (or them if more than one) and restart the binding - the RQST should go into effect then.
As for the port # changing, I’m looking into having it discover that and change accordingly (same with IP addresses). I’m not sure if it’s possible yet - but I do have a pretty good idea.
@tmrobert8
Thanks for your reply!
There is no “hdmi” or similar command string in my *.map file.
If the map file is created for my model as a suppose, than it’s the age of my model.
But I’m able to change the input and other things with rules by simulating keypresses and wait in between.
