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lean plume Jun 10, 2024, 7:06 PM

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This is fine. Yeah, that's not right. Are you running Container or HAOS?

hidden sable Jun 10, 2024, 7:06 PM

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HAOS

lean plume Jun 10, 2024, 7:07 PM

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Try find / -type f -name "[the name of the file you want to edit]"

hidden sable Jun 10, 2024, 7:10 PM

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https://i.imgur.com/DLKbarv.png shortened the results a bit with grep

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lots of libraries use endpoints.py apparantly :P

lean plume Jun 10, 2024, 7:12 PM

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Eh, maybe. What you need to find is the one that hosts core. What do you get if you do a docker ps -a?

hidden sable Jun 10, 2024, 7:13 PM

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https://i.imgur.com/3ij3fz6.png

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i used the official HAOS qcow2 image from home assistant by the way

lean plume Jun 10, 2024, 7:15 PM

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Hmmm... This is where me NOT running HAOS kinda sucks. There's no container running port 8123? I see observer (4567) there, but I don't see Core.

hidden sable Jun 10, 2024, 7:17 PM

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ran the command again with grep "8123" no hits unfortunately.

lean plume Jun 10, 2024, 7:18 PM

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Ugh... duh, I'm an idiot today (and working too lol).

hidden sable Jun 10, 2024, 7:18 PM

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lol :p

lean plume Jun 10, 2024, 7:18 PM

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The second container is it.

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So, you'll want to do a docker exec -it [that container id] sh

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THEN run the find commaand.

hidden sable Jun 10, 2024, 7:20 PM

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that looks more like it!

lean plume Jun 10, 2024, 7:20 PM

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Yay!!! ablobbouncefast

hidden sable Jun 10, 2024, 7:22 PM

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so uhm, does this docker image have a text editor built in

lean plume Jun 10, 2024, 7:22 PM

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vi

hidden sable Jun 10, 2024, 7:23 PM

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right!

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gave up after nano and vim :P

lean plume Jun 10, 2024, 7:23 PM

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But you could probably docker cp it out, edit and then cp it back?

hidden sable Jun 10, 2024, 7:24 PM

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hm i think that may be challenging from the proxmox node browser shell

lean plume Jun 10, 2024, 7:24 PM

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lol well, this isn't easy for various reasons... can't say I disagree with them.

hidden sable Jun 10, 2024, 7:25 PM

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Same actually :P regardless it is always fun to tinker

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well the file was edited, im gonna reboot for good measure

lean plume Jun 10, 2024, 7:28 PM

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Ok. Sounds good. Let me know how it goes!

hidden sable Jun 10, 2024, 7:30 PM

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🤞

hidden sable Jun 10, 2024, 7:54 PM

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Well, Home assistant started, tv is broadcasting however i think i may need to adjust the handling of the mediaplayer state

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i'm gonna look into that

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Its probably a oneliner as well

lean plume Jun 10, 2024, 7:55 PM

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Ok, good... so, at least progress? Is this something you could submit as a PR? Eh, maybe not if the TV is that old, right?

hidden sable Jun 10, 2024, 7:57 PM

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Well, adding a custom endpoint to the TV's API is something that isnt for the faint of heart, i basically published an internal api by adjusting the permissions in the internal OS of the TV. something like this could hardly make it to the main branch as it would break the media state integration for tvs that support this out of the box

lean plume Jun 10, 2024, 7:58 PM

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Time to get a newer TV 😉 But, yeah, I see what you mean.

hidden sable Jun 10, 2024, 8:00 PM

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Haha, yeah i would love one, this is one is from 2019 (LG OLED C9) but as you probably know these are on the expensive end and if it works fine .. no need to replace, this hobby is expensive enough as it is :D

lean plume Jun 10, 2024, 8:02 PM

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Oh hell, mine is older than that! 2017 model. But, tbf, it's now a computer monitor, so it's always on hdmi-1.

hidden sable Jun 10, 2024, 8:18 PM

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yeah mine is basically the same, i run plex and a pc on it, thats about it.

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There are some subtle differences in the object its sending through so i have to find and make adjustments here and there, so far on to file number 3 :p

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i think i can do this change with a custom component

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Well, i did it

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it works, im getting play, pause and idle states now

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🎉

lean plume Jun 10, 2024, 8:35 PM

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Sorry... had to step away for a few... NICE!

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So, how are you going to persist that across updates?

hidden sable Jun 10, 2024, 8:35 PM

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Haha, that is a very good question, the media_player changes i can do via a custom component but the aiowebos library is a different story.

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Its very simple edits here and there so its not too bad to re-do every now and then.

lean plume Jun 10, 2024, 8:41 PM

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Yeah... well, set a reminder and it should be good I guess?

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(That's if you update often, not everyone does)

hidden sable Jun 10, 2024, 8:44 PM

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Yeah exactly, i've documented the process so should be easily repeatable.

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Thanks heaps for helping me get there !

lean plume Jun 10, 2024, 8:46 PM

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No problem! Happy to help 🙂

hidden sable Jun 10, 2024, 8:58 PM

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these are the edits:

aiowebos edits
endpoints.py change:
com.webos.media -> com.webos.service.acb

webos_client.py change:
foregroundAppInfo -> acbs

lg webos component:
media_player.py change
foregroundAppInfo -> acbs
playState -> playStateNow

lean plume Jun 10, 2024, 8:59 PM

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That's it? Seems pretty minimal.

hidden sable Jun 10, 2024, 9:09 PM

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yep

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This doesn't factor in the edits made on the TV though.

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Which are these:

# Create config overrides directory
mkdir -p /home/root/extra-interfaces

# Create config override/addition manifest file
echo '{"service": "com.webos.service.acb","methods": [{"path": "/getForegroundAppInfo","description": "get foreground lol","requiredPermissions": ["LAUNCH"]}]}' > /home/root/extra-interfaces/com.webos.service.acb.interface

# Enable config override...
mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=/usr/palm/services/com.webos.service.secondscreen.gateway/interfaces:/home/root/extra-interfaces /usr/palm/services/com.webos.service.secondscreen.gateway/interfaces

# Restart ssap service (it is restarted automatically when killed) - the name changes randomly because of [reasons]
pkill -9 -f ss.apiadapter ; pkill -9 -f ss.gateway

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the override does not persist yet so i'll have to add the 3rd command to init.d which is tomorrow.

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most of the work was being a detective and finding the correct places to edit.

lean plume Jun 10, 2024, 9:12 PM

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And that's on the rooted TV, right?

hidden sable Jun 10, 2024, 9:12 PM

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Yeah

lean plume Jun 10, 2024, 9:12 PM

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Hmmmm, I might play around with this over the weekend (if you don't mind me borrowing your code 🙂

hidden sable Jun 10, 2024, 9:13 PM

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i dont mind at all!

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this is the command in the tv ssh to see if you have the endpoint at all: luna-send -n 1 luna://com.webos.service.acb/getForegroundAppInfo '{"subscribe":"false"}'

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you'll get something like this as response:
{ "returnValue": true, "appId": "cdp-30", "windowType": "_WEBOS_WINDOW_TYPE_CARD", "acbs": [ { "pipelineId": "_Ft70RTmNvefyJe", "playerType": "video", "playStateNow": "playing", "playStateNext": "playing", "isFullScreen": true, "positionX": 0, "positionY": 0, "width": 1920, "height": 1080 } ] }

lean plume Jun 10, 2024, 10:42 PM

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Huh... Yeah, def going to try this this weekend... Thanks for all the hard work!

hidden sable Jun 11, 2024, 9:14 AM

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Created a Gist for this, still have to test the init.d part but will update if changes are required. https://gist.github.com/Kuchiru/55e1b509a85cbece056dc7196d5c7385

hidden sable Jun 11, 2024, 11:22 AM

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I have some more progress, still testing but its possible to circumvent editing files completely.

lean plume Jun 11, 2024, 11:25 AM

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Ok. You’ve got my interest. I don’t mind editing and injecting changes, but no file editing would be better.

hidden sable Jun 11, 2024, 11:25 AM

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Turns out Rale (the author of the media state changes) created a testing repository specifically for the media state changes for HACS. i repurposed that repository for my changes with minimal modifications so you would only need to add the repo to hacs, install and add the tv IP (accept prompt on tv). after that it should work.

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its basically a ready to go template complete with the adjusted library as dependency.

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https://github.com/Kuchiru/lgtv this is the one with my changes, i have yet to test though as i should be working.

hidden sable Jun 11, 2024, 1:54 PM

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Well it works.

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no issues

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