Good afternoon all,

I received a unique request. I’ve been researching and I am coming up short. I am looking for a solution to automatically switch TV inputs. The TVs normally are streaming content from Hulu, etc, but every X amount of time, I’d like for the TV to switch over to Input 2 to play video that I’ve created, then switch back to Hulu. I was thinking that an HDMI Switcher with a built in timer might be a thing, but I’m coming up short. Any suggestions?

  • silasmoeckel@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Any roku smart tv can do this via API, home assistant already has a binding.

    Not sure you will like how it works as the Hulu app would restart.

    • sparky6116@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I am very new to this, so please excuse my ignorance. When you say Home Assistant already has a binding, does that mean I can install Home Assistant on something like a RaspPi and use HA’s native functionality to complete the task? Is that what it means when you say that HA already has a binding?

      • silasmoeckel@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Yes HASS natively supports roku and will let you change inputs (they are apps in its terms). So you can make automations based upon an app starting switch apps etc.