Implement TV support

[robertklep]

From iOS 12.2 onward, TV devices are supported by HomeKit:

https://github.com/KhaosT/HAP-NodeJS/blob/master/accessories/TV_accessory.js

[jahnkenneth]

Any updates on this? :-) Have added my Samsung TV to Homey, and HomeyKit exposes it as a switch... Would be cool if it was exposed as a TV :-D

[robertklep]

Nothing yet, been busy with other things.

Don't get your hopes up though: we also implemented Speaker support, but it looks like it only works with a very limited number of speakers. For the rest of the users, it's being shown as "Unsupported", at least in the official iOS app.

[robertklep]

According to this page, it looks like this requires a specific implementation for each TV model, which will make implementing support for this very difficult.

[lukasj98]

but you could implement it for ir when tv is controlled via ir

[lukasj98]

class	tv
Driver	homey:manager:vdevice — infraredbasic
Ready	Yes
Available	Yes
Warning	No
Custom icon	No

[lukasj98]

that would be awesome. Hope you can help. Because Homekit is able to control tvs but currently it is displayed as a switch but the homey class is tv

[robertklep]

That might be doable, I'll look at it when I have some spare time 👍🏻

[lukasj98]

Homekit does now support most tv functions and has a TV UI so it would be awesome if you could implement this so that it is recognized as a tv with all functions

here you can see that homekit has a UI for TV's:

[robertklep]

Homekit does now support most tv functions

But Homey doesn't. I can probably implement some button support, but don't count on channel pickers and stuff like that.

[lukasj98]

Hope much functions work because in homey I can switch channels with numbers

[lukasj98]

Any news?

[robertklep]

Sure: I have a lot of other things to do, so don't expect updates any time soon.

[lukasj98]

Ok I hope you will do it

[lukasj98]

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