Hi everybody,
I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab
, which has the Home Assistant
android app installed. Is there some way to send adb
commands to this device?
When I go to developer-tools/service
, there are services relevant to adb
, but they all need an android tv
component.
The Fully Kiosk Browser
is also installed, which can be connected to Home Assistant (docs). However:
- the kiosk browser is not always running, and even if it were:
- the integration doesn’t allow custom commands (or, for example, starting particular apps)
I’d like to install kodi
on this tablet. If there was a way to send an adb command to the tablet, I could instruct it to open kodi via some trigger. Once it was opened, I could control it through the kodi
integration. But this won’t work when kodi is not running already.
tl;dr
Can I send adb command
s to an android device that is not an android tv / firetv?
I guess at workaround would be utilizing the shell_command
to initiate the adb
command… but since Home Assistant already has adb built in, perhaps there is a “better” way to do this?
Thank you in advance for your ideas
UPDATE:
When I ssh
into my hassOS
machine (Home Assistant OS 9.5, homeassistant 2023.2.5, supervisor 2023.01.1
), the adb
command is not available. So I guess shell_command
isn’t as easy as I thought.