In this post, I will show you how you can control your PS4 with home assistant and turn it on with a Google Mini.

The Sony Playstation 4 integration into Home Assistant allows you to control your playstation with various actions such as turning on / off launching games. With the creation of a script within HA we are able to expose a series of commands to the Google Home app.

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Before Starting

Download the PS4 second screen app on your smartphone.

Turn on your PS4
Ensure that your PS4 remains connected to the LAN while in rest mode, in this way HA will be able to communicate to it.

https://youtu.be/FJGVO8SRD14

How to control your PS4 with Home Assistant and Google Home (https://youtu.be/FJGVO8SRD14)

How to setup PS4 in Home Assistant

In home assistant navigate to Configuration –> Integration and search for Playstation.

In the PS4 2nd Screen App, refresh devices and select ‘Home-Assistant’

Now select either Auto-discovery or manual IP address, I selected manual IP as my PS4 has a static IP address.

The PIN you will find in your PS4, now in your PS4 go to:

Settings –> Mobile App Connection Settings and select ‘Add Device’

Now enter the PIN displayed into Home Assistant

Select your region.

These regions at the time of writing are not included:

China, Japan, Philippines, Serbia, Ukraine, Vietnam

Press Submit and assign PS4 to a room.

Now your PS4 has been added as an entity in home assistant: media_player.playstation_4.

You can use any service that is linked with media_player, such as media_player.turn_on and media_player.turn_off.

To send specific commands to PS4 you can use ps4.send_command specifying the entity id and command

List of commands are:

`ps`	PS (PlayStation)
`ps_hold`	PS Hold/Long Press
`option`	Option
`enter`	Enter
`back`	Back
`up`	Swipe Up
`down`	Swipe Down
`left`	Swipe Left
`right`	Swipe Right

As you might have noticed the service is missing the traditional four PS4 commands, I will be using an harmony hub to workaround this.

Script

Before you run this script you will need to do the following:

Set your PS4 into rest mode

This script does the following things:

Turns on ps4

Turn my Living Room 1 off
Turn my Living room lamp on

Turn on my Harmony PS4 Activity

A 35 seconds delay before the next step.
Press the PS button to login, as soon as the PS4 booted into an idle state.
Turns the Living Room 2 red

Launch a game called Dead by Daylight

play_dead_by_daylight:

  alias: Play Dead By Daylight
  sequence:
# Turn PS4 on
  - data: {}
    entity_id: media_player.playstation_4
    service: media_player.turn_on
    
# Turn Living Room 1 Off
  - service: light.turn_off
    entity_id: light.living_1
    
# Turn Lamp ON
  - service: light.turn_on
    entity_id: light.hue_white_candle_1
  - service: light.turn_on
    entity_id: light.hue_white_candle_2
    
# Turn harmony to PS4
  - service: remote.turn_on
    entity_id: remote.living_room
    data:
      activity: 'Play PS4'
# 35 seconds delay      
  - delay: 35  
# Send PS command    
  - data:
      command: ps
    entity_id: media_player.playstation_4
    service: ps4.send_command
    
# Set Living Room 2 to Red
  - service: light.toggle
    data: 
        color_name: red
        entity_id: light.living_2
    entity_id: light.living_2
    
# Start Dead By Daylight
  - data:
      source: 'Dead by Daylight: Special Edition'
    entity_id: media_player.playstation_4
    service: media_player.select_source

Google Home App

In order for you Google Home to interact with Home Assistant you have two routes:

Manual configuration

Using Nabu Casa cloud service (this is the option I’m using)

To link the google home app with home assistant do the following:

Press + button and set up device

Tap on “Have something already set up”
Search for “Home Assistant Cloud by Nabu Casa”
Login with your Nabu Casa Account

All devices are added by default and you can assign rooms to them.

Now if you wanted to not expose certain domains or certain entities you can add this code into your configuration.yaml

cloud:
  google_actions:
    filter:
      include_entities:
        - media_player.playstation_4
      include_domains:
        - script

The snippet above only includes the playstation 4 media player and all of the scripts. Bear in mind that the scripts in the google home app do not appear in the home section.

To find scripts navigate to the following location:

Press on the round button with your initial –> Assistant Settings –> Home Control (scroll down) –> Scenes

Now you can try saying:

“Hey Google, turn playstation 4 on”

“Hey Google, turn playstation 4 off”

“Hey Google, activate play dead by daylight”

Home Assistant Dashboard (Lovelace)

Before adding the PS4 to your dashboard you will need two custom components which you can get from HACS (Home Assistant Community Store)

Button-card: https://github.com/custom-cards/button-card#installation-and-tracking-with-hacs

Mini-Media-Player: https://github.com/kalkih/mini-media-player

Now you will need to find out a few things:

Entity ID of playstation in home assistant.

Device ID of remote within the harmony configuration file (harmony_xxx.conf)

For part of this I’m using a Harmony Hub to send specific commands to PS4

card:
  cards:
    - artwork: full-cover
      entity: media_player.playstation_4
      hide:
        icon: true
        power: true
        progress: true
        source: true
        volume: true
      type: 'custom:mini-media-player'
    - cards:
        - color: '#003791'
          color_type: card
          icon: 'mdi:playstation'
          type: 'custom:button-card'
          tap_action:
            action: call-service
            service: remote.send_command
            service_data:
              command: PS
              device: 28803486
              entity_id: remote.living_room
        - color: '#91b8e3'
          color_type: icon
          icon: 'mdi:window-close'
          type: 'custom:button-card'
          tap_action:
            action: call-service
            service: remote.send_command
            service_data:
              command: Cross
              device: 28803486
              entity_id: remote.living_room
        - color: '#1fd0c8'
          color_type: icon
          icon: 'mdi:triangle-outline'
          tap_action:
            action: call-service
            service: remote.send_command
            service_data:
              command: Triangle
              device: 28803486
              entity_id: remote.living_room
          type: 'custom:button-card'
          action: service
        - color: '#d4aad2'
          color_type: icon
          icon: 'mdi:square-outline'
          tap_action:
            action: call-service
            service: remote.send_command
            service_data:
              command: Square
              device: 28803486
              entity_id: remote.living_room
          type: 'custom:button-card'
        - color: '#f57b8a'
          color_type: icon
          icon: 'mdi:circle-outline'
          tap_action:
            action: call-service
            service: remote.send_command
            service_data:
              command: Circle
              device: 28803486
              entity_id: remote.living_room
          type: 'custom:button-card'
      type: horizontal-stack
  type: vertical-stack
conditions:
  - entity: switch.ps4
    state_not: 'off'
type: conditional