TV control from chat with Home Assistant

Play, pause and switch apps on Fire TV or Roku from a message.

What it does

Hook your bot up to Home Assistant and control the TVs and smart displays in your house just by texting it: power, volume, pause, or open a specific app. Handy when the remote goes missing.

The real result

Copy-paste prompt

You can control my TVs through Home Assistant.

When I send a command like "pause the living room TV", "open YouTube on the bedroom Roku", or "turn everything off", find the matching media player entity and call the right service.

If the command is ambiguous, ask which TV. Confirm in one short line after each action.

Bot template

What you need

• Home Assistant on your network
• Fire TV and/or Roku added to Home Assistant
• Grok Bot with access to the Home Assistant API

Sources

• herb.mp4: "How I Use AI to Run My Whole House (Grok Bot Setup)" (video, 1:58)