I’m desperately trying to integrate my FireTV Stick 4k into Home Assistant so that I can receive and use the play status. The FireTV Stick only ever shows me the statuses “off” and “idle”. Controlling the FireTV works without any problems (at least play, pause and switch on and off, I haven’t tried any other commands yet).
I have added it with its IP address in Android Debug Bridge as firetv and allowed the adb connection on the FireTV Stick permanently. I also tried to install the adb-shell python package, but I’m not quite sure if I did that as needed. Unfortunately there is no information anywhere on how to do this. Maybe that is the problem.
Can someone please briefly explain the procedure for this? I just can’t get it to work and I’m getting desperate…