Philips Infrared

The Philips Infrared integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] lets you control a Philips TV from Home Assistant using any infrared emitter previously configured in Home Assistant. It is a good fit for Philips TVs that aren’t connected to your network, or when you prefer to control the TV the same way its remote does.

Because the integration communicates over infrared, it operates in a one-way, fire-and-forget fashion: commands are sent to the TV, but there is no feedback channel to confirm its current state. The integration therefore uses assumed states.

If your Philips TV is connected to your network and supports the jointSPACE API, you can also use the Philips TV integration, which can read the state of the TV.

How you can use the integration

After setup, you can control your Philips TV from Home Assistant the same way you would with its remote, and make it part of your automations. For example, you can:

• Turn the TV on or off from a dashboard.
• Change the volume or the channel without looking for the remote.
• Pause what you’re watching when you talk to your voice assistant.

Supported devices

The integration supports Philips TVs that can be controlled with the standard Philips RC-6 infrared protocol.

Prerequisites

This integration requires an infrared remote adapter (proxy) that is already set up in Home Assistant and provides an infrared entityAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other entities. An entity is usually part of a device or a service. [Learn more]. To find integrations that provide infrared entities, browse the Infrared category.

To send commands, you need an infrared emitter. For example, you can use an ESPHome device with an IR LED pointed at your Philips TV.

Configuration

To add the Philips Infrared device to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:

To control more than one Philips TV, add the integration again for each TV and select a different infrared emitter each time.

Supported functionality

Media player

The integration creates one media player entity for your TV.

• Philips TV
  • Description: Represents the Philips TV and allows you to control it with infrared commands.
  • Supported features: Turn on, turn off, volume up, volume down, mute, channel up, channel down, play, pause, and stop.
  • Remarks: The next track and previous track controls of the media player change the channel up and down. The state of the media player follows the last command sent from Home Assistant since this integration has no way of knowing the real state.

Philips Infrared automation examples

The following examples show how to automate a Philips TV. For more ideas, refer to the media player actions reference.

Automation: Pausing the TV when you talk to your voice assistant

• Trigger: Satellite started listening
  • Target: Living room voice assistant (assist_satellite.living_room)
• Action: Pause media
  • Target: Philips TV (media_player.philips_tv)

alias: "Pause the TV when the voice assistant listens"
triggers:
  - trigger: assist_satellite.listening
    target:
      entity_id: assist_satellite.living_room
actions:
  - action: media_player.media_pause
    target:
      entity_id: media_player.philips_tv

Known limitations

• The media player uses assumed state, meaning Home Assistant can’t read the actual state of the TV. The state shows the last command sent from Home Assistant, so it gets out of sync when you use the TV remote, or when a command doesn’t reach the TV.
• Philips TVs have a single power toggle command, so turning the TV on and turning it off both send the same command. If Home Assistant shows the TV as on while it’s already off, a turn off command turns it on, and the other way around. Keep this in mind when you use these actions in automations.
• Mute also toggles. Each mute command switches the sound on or off, regardless of whether you select mute or unmute.
• Volume control is step-based only. There is no way to set an absolute volume level.
• You can’t change the infrared emitter after setup. To use a different emitter, remove the TV from the integration and add it again.

Troubleshooting

Reporting an issue

If you need to report an issue, enable debug logging, then reload the integration. Reproduce the issue, disable debug logging, and attach the automatically downloaded debug log to your report.

Removing the integration

This integration follows standard integration removal.

To remove an integration instance from Home Assistant

1. Go to Settings > Devices & services and select the integration card.
2. Next to the entry you want to remove, select the three dots menu. Then, select Delete.
   • Depending on the integration, the entries are listed under one of the following headings:
     • Devices
     • Hubs
     • Services
     • Integration entries
3. To confirm, select Delete.
   • Home Assistant also deletes the devices and entities of the entry.
4. If Home Assistant asks you to restart, restart Home Assistant.
5. If Home Assistant asks whether to also delete the application credentials, select Remove or Keep.
   • If you keep them, Home Assistant uses them automatically when you add the integration again.
   • To delete them later, refer to Deleting application credentials.