Control Sony BRAVIA 8A via HTTPS in Home Assistant

The BRAVIA 8A uses only HTTPS for communication, which makes the Home Assistant integration SonyBravia unusable. This project provides a workaround.

The main script bravia8_pyscript.py utilizes the HACS custom integration pyscript (https://github.com/custom-components/pyscript).

Changelog

15.06.2026 - 2.0.0 - Update to latest pyscript version (2.0.1), removed modified pybravia module,
                     as latest versions (>0.4.0) can handle HTTPS.
      2025 - 1.0.0 - Initial release using modified pybravia module

Installation

<HA-config> ==> Volume=/var/containers/vol/hass/config:/config:z

Install pyscript following the instructions on the pyscript GitHub repository:

• From the latest release download the zip file hass-custom-pyscript.zip
• Move the zip file to <NFS>/Server/transfer
• unpack there to ./pyscript (no unzip on CoreOS)
• cd /var/containers/vol/hass/config/custom_components/pyscript
• rm -rf * ._*
• cp -R /srv/nas/Server/transfer/pyscript/* .

Copy bravia8/ <HA-config>/pyscript/modules/

Copy bravia8_pyscript.py to <HA-config>/pyscript/

systemctl --user stop hass-pod && systemctl --user start hass-pod

Usage in Home Assistant

In scripts.yaml

tv_command_hdmi1:
  alias: Sony-TV send_command Hdmi1
  sequence:
  - service: pyscript.bravia_send_command   # -> def bravia_send_command(command)
    data:
      command: Hdmi1
  mode: single