TCL Fire TV with Home Assistant: Unlock Smart TV Control

Transforming your TCL Fire TV into a fully customizable smart TV hub, pairing it with Home Assistant unlocks powerful automation, seamless voice commands, and personalized smart home integration.

By connecting Home Assistant to TCL Fire TV, users gain full control beyond the app interface. This integration enables centralized management of streaming apps, media libraries, and smart TV settings, all from a single platform. Home Assistant’s open ecosystem ensures compatibility with a wide range of devices, making customization accessible and scalable.

With Home Assistant, automate TV routines such as turning on at sunset, switching apps based on voice commands, or adjusting brightness for ambient lighting. Scripts and workflows can trigger actions across connected devices—like dimming lights when the Fire TV starts streaming—creating a truly immersive home environment.

Leverage voice assistants like Alexa or open-source options within Home Assistant to control your Fire TV hands-free. Beyond voice, synchronize media playback across phones, tablets, and TVs via ONT or media server integrations, ensuring consistent viewing across all devices.

The synergy between TCL Fire TV and Home Assistant transforms your entertainment center into a responsive, intelligent hub. Embrace seamless automation, voice control, and deep smart home integration—elevate your viewing with a solution designed for modern connectivity and personalization.

Just got a TCL TV and have it added to Home Assistant. I'm able to turn it off, on etc. Currently I have an automation that when I walk into the office, it turns on the TV and switches the source to computer.

Works perfectly and is amazing. How. This custom component will give you two new services for controlling TCL Smart TVs (Non android version).

Tested on my S69 series TV. I have seen some reports about it working on other brands as we. Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.

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In this video I'll show you how to connect your Smart TV to Home Assistant and give you some ideas on how you can make your home smarter through automations. I'm looking at TCL TVs and don't have any need for the Roku vs Google vs Android OS (I use Apple TV). I do wish to have HomeAssistant control over basic functions (power, volume, inputs, etc).

From what I can see the Roku version is the most integrated. I'm willing to pay a little premium if that's the case. Just wanted to make sure that was the case.

A 65-75" TV is not something I. TCL Television I have a TCL Television that I want to add to home assistant. The only intergrations I see are TCl with Roku (which mine doesn't have).

My HA did pick it up as a generic DNLA media renderer, but the only control it gives me is volume. All I really want is ability to turn on/off and switch inputs. Any suggestions are greatly.

How to turn the TV on from Home Assistant We are going to use an integration called WOL (wake on Lan) to achieve this we are going to need a few things! First we need to connect our TV to an ethernet cable not using WIFI Then, look in your menu on your TV to allow third party devices to turn on the device. It could be obvious or require a bit of googling with your specific TV model. Tested on my S69 series TV.

I have seen some reports about it working on other brands as well, mainly Thomson - Releases popeen/Home. I'm considering moving from an LG Smart TV (which has a Home Assistant integration) to a TCL smart TV but couldn't find any native integration. How are you integrating your TCL smart TVs?

Gotcha. Not that I'm suggesting you should change your setup, but if your TV or projector has bluetooth I suspect you could swap the fire stick for any other streaming stick. Either way, it sounds like the integration isn't working properly after all, hope you're able to get it sorted!