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I’m having issues getting the deeplinks for youtube tv and paramount plus to work. They just open a browser window.

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Is there a deeplink for NFL Network? I’ve looked through the decompiled apk and can only find com.gotv.nflgamecenter.us.lite but that doesn’t seem to work at all.

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A short hint for germans who using Waipu.tv

You can use waipu://tv/<channel> to open a channel directly. It seems that you can use the same names as on their webplayer like sat1 or rtl, but it needs to be lowercase.

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Discovery plus appears to have changed to:

discoveryplus://

First time I opened YouTube I was asked if I wanted to use the app or browser, I select App “always” - and it’s worked fine, could be you need to clear the defaults in the YouTube App Settings

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Through examining the manifest.xml file in android studio and some experimentation, the deeplink for tinyCam is rtsp://

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Work for me with Bell fibe app. You can also use fonsetv://home to return to the home screen when you are in other menu.

service: remote.turn_on
data:
  activity: fonsetv://home
target:
  entity_id: remote.salon
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Workaround for Kodi : start google play store on Kodi app, then send OK command (to click on the focused Open or Update button)

Script:

alias: Launch Kodi
sequence:
  - service: remote.turn_on
    data:
      activity: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xbmc.kodi
    target:
      entity_id: remote.android_tv_id
  - wait_for_trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id:
          - remote.android_tv_id
        attribute: current_activity
        to: com.android.vending
    timeout:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 3
      milliseconds: 0
  - service: remote.send_command
    data:
      command: DPAD_CENTER
      hold_secs: 0.5
    target:
      entity_id: remote.android_tv_id
mode: single
icon: mdi:kodi
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Thanks. That works!

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The new HBO Max, aka Max

data:
  activity: https://play.max.com
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Anyone who found out the url for the Odido TV (formerly T-Mobile TV) app? I can’t get that app started via HA.
Cheers, Ronald

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I confirm this. Could be great if it could be added to the OP.

Bell Télé Fibe: fonsetv://

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Has anybody managed to figure out if you can link to a show on the new max app?

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I found Raiplay and DAZN:

activity: https://open.dazn.com/ (open: com.dazn)
activity: https://www.raiplay.it/video (open: it.rainet.androidtv)

Now i am trying to find the correct activity for nowtv (sky) but even after decompiling the APK it does not seem to work:

deeplink variables are:

<data android:scheme="@string/deeplink_scheme_nowtv"/>
<data android: scheme="@string/deeplink_scheme_nowtv_ie"/>
<data android: scheme="@string/deeplink_scheme_nowtv_it"/>
<data android: scheme="@string/deeplink_scheme_nowtv_de"/>
<data android: scheme="@string/deeplink_scheme_nowtv_de_wow"/>

So i found inside strings.xml:

<string name="deeplink_scheme_nowtv">nowtv</string>
<string name="deeplink_scheme_nowtv_de">sky-ticket</string>
<string name="deeplink_scheme_nowtv_de_wow">wowtv</string>
<string name="deeplink_scheme_nowtv_ie">nowtv</string>
<string name="deeplink_scheme_nowtv_it">nowtv-it</string>

but nowt://, nowtv-it:// and the others are not working.

Updating my own comment, i ended up using @abdesmok workaround.
It opens https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nowtv.it (but it’s easy to find the link to any app really) and then it clicks on the open button.
I am using nvidia shield and its almost instant anyway

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Is there any way to load an episode on netflix or disney with this intergration?

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Hey Torben. I was able to find the deeplinks for the danish streaming services - well atleast they worked for me.

Here is the list:

DRTV: tvrecommendation://app

TV2Play: dk.tv2.tv2playtv://*.tv2.dk/android/dk.tv2.tv2playtv/callback

Viaplay: viaplay://com.viaplay.android/film/
Viaplay: viaplay://deeplink/film

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Hey. I was able to find the deeplinks for the danish streaming services - well atleast they worked for me.

Here is the list:

DRTV: tvrecommendation://app

TV2Play: dk.tv2.tv2playtv://*.tv2.dk/android/dk.tv2.tv2playtv/callback

Viaplay: viaplay://com.viaplay.android/film/
Viaplay: viaplay://deeplink/film

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doesnt work for me either.

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Hey Sune.

DRTV and Viaplay works fin, but TV2Play didn’t work for me.

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Yeah, for some reason the TV2 deep link also stopped working for me. I will look into to this again.

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Have you found it yet? At least odido:// or odidotv:// are not working.

I did decompile the APK and looked in the AndroidManifest.xml but can’t seem to find a clue for the deeplink. Can’t find " <data" or something with “deeplink”