LG TV integration for Remote Two

Using AioWebOSTV and uc-integration-api

The driver discovers LG TVs on the network. A media player entity is exposed to the core.

Supported attributes:

• State (on, off, playing, paused, unknown)
• Title
• Artwork
• Source

Supported commands:

• Turn on
• Turn off
• Direction pad and enter
• Back
• Next
• Previous
• Volume up
• Volume down
• Pause / Play
• Input select
• Channels Up/Down
• Menus (home, context, settings)
• Colored buttons
• Digit numbers
• Subtitle/audio language switching

Usage

Setup

• Requires Python 3.11
• Under a virtual environment : the driver has to be run in host mode and not bridge mode, otherwise the turn on function won't work (a magic packet has to be sent through network and it won't reach it under bridge mode)
• Enable always on on your LG TV to be able to power on lan
• Install required libraries:
  (using a virtual environment is highly recommended)

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

For running a separate integration driver on your network for Remote Two, the configuration in file driver.json needs to be changed:

• Set driver_id to a unique value, uc_lg_driver is already used for the embedded driver in the firmware.
• Change name to easily identify the driver for discovery & setup with Remote Two or the web-configurator.
• Optionally add a "port": 8090 field for the WebSocket server listening port.
  • Default port: 9090
  • Also overrideable with environment variable UC_INTEGRATION_HTTP_PORT

Run

python3 intg-lgtv/driver.py

See available environment variables in the Python integration library to control certain runtime features like listening interface and configuration directory.

Build self-contained binary for Remote Two

After some tests, turns out python stuff on embedded is a nightmare. So we're better off creating a single binary file that has everything in it.

To do that, we need to compile it on the target architecture as pyinstaller does not support cross compilation.

x86-64 Linux

On x86-64 Linux we need Qemu to emulate the aarch64 target platform:

sudo apt install qemu binfmt-support qemu-user-static
docker run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static --reset -p yes

Run pyinstaller:

docker run --rm --name builder \
    --platform=aarch64 \
    --user=$(id -u):$(id -g) \
    -v "$PWD":/workspace \
    docker.io/unfoldedcircle/r2-pyinstaller:3.11.6  \
    bash -c \
      "python -m pip install -r requirements.txt && \
      pyinstaller --clean --onefile --name intg-lgtv intg-lgtv/driver.py"

aarch64 Linux / Mac

On an aarch64 host platform, the build image can be run directly (and much faster):

docker run --rm --name builder \
    --user=$(id -u):$(id -g) \
    -v "$PWD":/workspace \
    docker.io/unfoldedcircle/r2-pyinstaller:3.11.6  \
    bash -c \
      "python -m pip install -r requirements.txt && \
      pyinstaller --clean --onefile --name intg-lgtv intg-lgtv/driver.py"

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags and releases in this repository.

Changelog

The major changes found in each new release are listed in the changelog and under the GitHub releases.

Contributions

Please read our contribution guidelines before opening a pull request.

License

This project is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. See the LICENSE file for details.