Android TV Remote V1

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I have an older Sony Bravia TV which implements Android TV Remote protocol V1. This doesn’t seem to be supported by the current Android TV Remote integration.

Does anyone know a way to integrate with a V1-device?
I could find some resources:

What I’m after though is fast events on volume change - as I want to mirror the volume to my receiver. The above resources only seem to focus on sending commands.
I can see instant volume updates in my Google Home app, so it should be possible.

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this is what you need.

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Looks like its based on ADB / Android TV Remote integrations. The latter doesn’t work with my TV and the former is poll based and slow.

I think my best bets are:

  • Something that can talk to Android TV Remote V1
  • Installing something on the TV that reacts to volume changes and pushes events to HA (Tasker?)

I successfully created a python script that pairs with the TV, following the wiki information lonled above. Couldnt get it to send a comand though let alone listen to volume events (which isnt even documented :confused: )
But thats something for the development section of this forum I guess. I wanted to start here to try and find an easier way first.

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Well, what’dya know. Suddenly the TV is configurable via the Android TV Remote integration! I guess it got a software update or something because it now has the Android TV Remote service installed which it didn’t before.

Problem solved :white_check_mark:

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