Play/pause support

[PiotrMachowski]

Hi,

Great work on this custom component. I have forked your repo to provide a way to control SmartThings enabled soundbars.

To make play and pause working you have to set state to playing/paused accordingly (not only on/off). You can check how I have done it here.

Regards
Piotr

[pegatron89]

I have added play and pause support for the TV. You cant get the status back for anything playing on netflix (Well atleast my tv wont report back) but sending the Play/Pause/Stop commands work.

            "mediaPlayback": {
                "supportedPlaybackCommands": {
                    "value": [
                        "play",
                        "pause",
                        "stop",
                        "fastForward",
                        "rewind",
                        "next",
                        "previous"
                    ]
                },
                "playbackStatus": {
                    "value": null
                }
            },

See the null above. Not sure how this looks if there is something playing through DLNA but it should work.

[tieppm]

@PiotrMachowski
I am using sony 55x8500G TV and Q70r soundbar. Does the component work?

[PiotrMachowski]

This one didn't work for my soundbar (Q80R), so I have created my own version that works. The problem was with some TV specific functionalities

[tieppm]

@PiotrMachowski
I have followed your instructions and succeeded.
But I couldn't choose the source
Can you solve this problem?
Thank U

[PiotrMachowski]

@tieppm
Everything works correctly in my case. You can create an issue on my GitHub here. Please attach errors from HA logs