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DirecTV

The DirecTV platform allows you to control a DirecTV receiver and its client devices.

Requirements

For proper integration with Home Assistant, your DirecTV device settings should allow “External Access”.

This is done via series of settings found via Menu > Settings & Help > Settings > Whole Home > External Device:

  • External Access: Allow
  • Current Program: Allow
  • Recordings: Allow

Configuration

To add the DirecTV integration to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:

DirecTV can be auto-discovered by Home Assistant. If an instance was found, it will be shown as Discovered. You can then set it up right away.

Manual configuration steps

If it wasn’t discovered automatically, don’t worry! You can set up a manual integration entry:

Actions

Media control actions

Available actionsActions are used in several places in Home Assistant. As part of a script or automation, actions define what is going to happen once a trigger is activated. In scripts, an action is called sequence. [Learn more]: turn_on, turn_off, media_play, media_pause, media_stop, media_next_track, media_previous_track, play_media

Action media_player.play_media

Data attribute Optional Description
entity_id yes Target a specific media player. Defaults to all.
media_content_id no The channel number to change to.
media_content_type no A media type. Has to be channel.

Remote

The DirecTV remote platform allows you to send remote control buttons to a DirecTV receiver. It is automatically set up when a DirecTV receiver is configured.

At the moment, the following buttons are supported:

  • power
  • poweron
  • poweroff
  • format
  • pause
  • rew
  • replay
  • stop
  • advance
  • ffwd
  • record
  • play
  • guide
  • active
  • list
  • exit
  • back
  • menu
  • info
  • up
  • down
  • left
  • right
  • select
  • red
  • green
  • yellow
  • blue
  • chanup
  • chandown
  • prev
  • 0
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • dash
  • enter

A typical action for pressing several buttons looks like this.

action: remote.send_command
target:
  entity_id: remote.directv_entity
data:
  command:
    - left
    - left
    - menu
    - select