Sony Bravia TV - events to trigger appear twice but only one works

[muibeta]

The problem

I have two Sony Bravia TVs where I want to trigger automations when each TV turns on. When creating automations using the visual editor, some of the available trigger events are listed twice. For one of the TVs, only the first instance of "TV turned on" will trigger. On the other TV, I have to choose the second instance of "TV turned on" to have it trigger. Included are two screen grabs. The highlighted "TV turned on" is the one that will trigger.

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core-2025.3.4

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[bieniu]

Is the device also configured with another integration than BraviaTV? For example, AndroidTV Remote?

[muibeta]

Both TVs were auto discovered by androidtv_remote and dlna_dms. These integrations were "ignored" for both TVs so they should not be configured.

BraviaTV lists the TVs by their Sony model numbers. I can also control them using media_player code where they are also found by their names; Study TV and Family TV. In the active list of integrations, the TVs only appear under BraviaTV.

[bieniu]

Show me please the device info panel, something like this.

[muibeta]

[muibeta]

Please note, in the Logbook entries tuned off and turned on appear twice at exactly the same time.

[bieniu]

I think I understand the problem. You have both media_player and remote entities enabled. For both automation triggers are generated and both generate events in the log.
Could you change the name of one of the entities to add a distinction between them?

[muibeta]

For the TV in the Study, I renamed the remote entity "Study TV remote". This now clearly distinguishes media_player and remote. See the two screen grabs of the Device info with Logbook identifying them separately and as well as for Automation trigger events. As a feature request, could the auto entity naming be adjusted to save having to manually rename?

Thanks for your help!

[bieniu]

For which entity trigger does not work?

[muibeta]

I also renamed the remote entity for the Family TV to "Family TV remote". With media_player and remote not having duplicate entity names, triggering on either is now working in a quick test of both TVs.