home-assistant.io/source/_integrations/directv.markdown

title	description	ha_category	ha_release	ha_iot_class	ha_domain	ha_config_flow	ha_quality_scale	ha_ssdp	ha_platforms	ha_integration_type
DirecTV	Instructions on how to integrate DirecTV receivers into Home Assistant.	Media Player Remote	0.25	Local Polling	directv	true	silver	true	media_player remote	integration

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

{% include integrations/config_flow.md %}

Services

Media control services

Available services: turn_on, turn_off, media_play, media_pause, media_stop, media_next_track, media_previous_track, play_media

Service media_player.play_media

Service 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 service call for press several buttons looks like this.

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