How to determine if Sky Stream puk is on/off for home automation?

[Graeme-D]

Has anyone got an actual working ways to determine the state of these puks? I use Home Assistrant and atm its impossible for me to discover if someone has turned the TV on which has turned the puk on via TV remote or if the SKY remote was used to turn the puk on and thus the TV, so I have a broken automation which lands up turning the puk off/on randomly which means someone needs to find the SKY remote and manually turn on which is jsut plain annoying. The TV I am able to contol perfectly with WoL and the LG plugin for HA, So i can determine its state, but the Puk is provinng annoying and the constant complans from the family are grinding. 

[Chrisee]

@Graeme-D Ithe Stream pucks do not appear to have an IP interface and although they support HDMI-CEC I do not believe that support power off.

One way round this maybe to use the Home command to bring the unit out of standby and only use the power toggle to put the unit back into standby. This works for my Hamony set up.

[Graeme-D]

I have a Harmony in my bedroom which works great, and even bought a second one, but can't get the second one to work with HA, due to the Harmony server constantly failing to update the configuration of the second unit. So I have been using a Tuya IR blaster on the lounge one with the above issue. 

[G+Champion]

Hi All.

I've three of these things after ditching SKy Q, big mistake!

SkyQ had an integration into an api for HA and worked lovely with nodered and HA, LG/Samsung TV's all good.

There is no API for Sky Stream, best I can do is a helper in HA to ping the boxes for ON and OFF. Issue is they don't sleep immediately, so its not reliable really. I don't think theres any ports that close either as I've scanned them and the one port stays open as long as it responds to ping.

WOL packets for now crash the boxes repeatedly, so bang goes the option to turn them on via the LAN.

All in all lacking in any form of friendly automation whatsoever. Disappointed might be an understatement.

All this antiquated button pushing in this dy and age. Alexa/google commands would be ideal, becuse you can then use HA/NR to send them, but no, nothing......

[G+Champion]

Just to add.

Using Harmony hub to send  from Nodered commands to the hub and onto the IR eye of the puck, so this integrates with HA/NR happily for the lounge. Issue is you don't want this on every puck really.

So, NR to Harmony to puck via IR works.

So does LG remote to IR eye out to the front of the puck via IR emitter box.

So not much more cn be done to automate as far as I can see at the moment.