Panasonic Bluray integration for Remote Two

Using uc-integration-api

The driver discovers Panasonic Bluray players on the network. A media player and a remote entity are exposed to the core. The remote entity su

Supported attributes:

• State (on, off, playing, paused, unknown)
• Media position
• Media duration

Supported commands for media player :

• Turn on
• Turn off
• Toggle on/off
• Next / previous chapter
• Fast forward / rewind
• Play/pause
• Stop
• Title menu, main menu, popup menu
• Direction pad
• Digits
• Audio stream switching
• ...
• Simple commands

Supported commands for remote entity :

• Send command
• Send command sequence
• Predefined buttons mapping
• Predefined UI mapping

Prerequisites

All players supported by the Panasonic Blu-ray Remote 2012 Android app should be supported; i.e. DMP-BDT120, DMP-BDT220, DMP-BDT221, DMP-BDT320, DMP-BDT500 and DMP-BBT01 devices.

Newer players with "UB" prefixes (UB-420, UB-820, and UB-9000) support a (very) limited set of functions To make it work with latest UHD bluray players (such as UB820), you will have to enable voice control in the network menu AND to patch the Panasonic firmware (not an easy procedure). More information on AVSForum Tested correctly on my Panasonic UB820.

For more information on available commands see this page

Usage

Setup

• Requires Python 3.11
• Install required libraries:
  (using a virtual environment is highly recommended)

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

For running a separate integration driver on your network for Remote Two, the configuration in file driver.json needs to be changed:

• Set driver_id to a unique value, uc_panasonicbluray_driver is already used for the embedded driver in the firmware.
• Change name to easily identify the driver for discovery & setup with Remote Two or the web-configurator.
• Optionally add a "port": 8090 field for the WebSocket server listening port.
  • Default port: 9091
  • Also overrideable with environment variable UC_INTEGRATION_HTTP_PORT

Run

python3 intg-panasonicbluray/driver.py

See available environment variables in the Python integration library to control certain runtime features like listening interface and configuration directory.

Available commands for the remote entity

Available commands for remote entity :

Command	Description
POWERON	Power on
POWEROFF	Power off
POWER	Power toggle
OP_CL	Open/close
PLAYBACK	Play
PAUSE	Pause
STOP	Stop
SKIPFWD	Next chapter
SKIPREV	Previous chapter
REV	Rewind
CUE	Fast forward
D0	0 (-,)
D1	1 (@.)
D2	2 (ABC)
D3	3 (DEF)
D4	4 (GHI)
D5	5 (JKL)
D6	6 (MNO)
D7	7 (PQRS)
D8	8 (TUV)
D9	9 (WXYZ)
D12	12
SHARP	# ([_])
CLEAR	* or cancel
UP	Up
DOWN	Down
LEFT	Left
RIGHT	Right
SELECT	Select
RETURN	Return
EXIT	Exit
MLTNAVI	Home
DSPSEL	Status
TITLE	Title
MENU	Menu
PUPMENU	Popup Menu
SHFWD1	SHFWD1
SHFWD2	SHFWD2
SHFWD3	SHFWD3
SHFWD4	SHFWD4
SHFWD5	SHFWD5
SHREV1	SHREV1
SHREV2	SHREV2
SHREV3	SHREV3
SHREV4	SHREV4
SHREV5	SHREV5
JLEFT	JLEFT
JRIGHT	JRIGHT
RED	Red
BLUE	Blue
GREEN	Green
YELLOW	Yellow
NETFLIX	Netflix
SKYPE	Skype
V_CAST	V_CAST
3D	3D
NETWORK	Network
AUDIOSEL	Audio language
KEYS	Keys
CUE	Cue
CHROMA	Chrooma
MNBACK	Manual skip -10s
MNSKIP	Manual skip +60s
2NDARY	2NDARY
PICTMD	PICTMD
DETAIL	DETAIL
RESOLUTN	Resolution
OSDONOFF	OSD ON/OFF
P_IN_P	Picture in picture
PLAYBACKINFO	Playback Info
CLOSED_CAPTION	Closed Caption
TITLEONOFF	Subtitle
HDR_PICTUREMODE	HDR Picture Mode
PICTURESETTINGS	Picture Setting
SOUNDEFFECT	Soud Effect
HIGHCLARITY	High clarity
SKIP_THE_TRAILER	Skip The Trailer
MIRACAST	Mirroring

Build self-contained binary for Remote Two

After some tests, turns out python stuff on embedded is a nightmare. So we're better off creating a single binary file that has everything in it.

To do that, we need to compile it on the target architecture as pyinstaller does not support cross compilation.

x86-64 Linux

On x86-64 Linux we need Qemu to emulate the aarch64 target platform:

sudo apt install qemu binfmt-support qemu-user-static
docker run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static --reset -p yes

Run pyinstaller:

docker run --rm --name builder \
    --platform=aarch64 \
    --user=$(id -u):$(id -g) \
    -v "$PWD":/workspace \
    docker.io/unfoldedcircle/r2-pyinstaller:3.11.6  \
    bash -c \
      "python -m pip install -r requirements.txt && \
      pyinstaller --clean --onefile --name intg-panasonicbluray intg-panasonicbluray/driver.py"

aarch64 Linux / Mac

On an aarch64 host platform, the build image can be run directly (and much faster):

docker run --rm --name builder \
    --user=$(id -u):$(id -g) \
    -v "$PWD":/workspace \
    docker.io/unfoldedcircle/r2-pyinstaller:3.11.6  \
    bash -c \
      "python -m pip install -r requirements.txt && \
      pyinstaller --clean --onefile --name intg-panasonicbluray intg-panasonicbluray/driver.py"

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags and releases in this repository.

Changelog

The major changes found in each new release are listed in the changelog and under the GitHub releases.

Contributions

Please read our contribution guidelines before opening a pull request.

License

This project is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. See the LICENSE file for details.