I have an Android TV device which is connected to my HA, I would like to be able to view which app is currently playing which is does do, but its quite hard to decipher the name. It shows names like ar.tvplayer.tv , when it should be showing TiviMate. After Googling I was able to cobble together thi…

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Apologies, I’ve corrected this now.

I’m not clear how your TV is integrated. I use Android Debug Bridge, which has the current source app id as an attribute, for example: ca.dstudio.atvlauncher.pro If I wanted friendly names I’d create a template sensor something like: - sensor: - name: "Channel" state: > …

Would this add a new sensor independent of my media devices? In the media player card, instead of showing the app_id I want it to show the Name of the app, or a friendly label (that I can define). I have two Android (Shield TV) devices I want to apply this to.

So I managed to find a customisation tag that we can use to display state values in alternative “friendlier” formats. It however does work, can anyone see if this is the correct syntax or whether this isn’t the correct approach. homeassistant: customize: media_player.dining_room_tv_shield: …

I know this topic is quite old now, but if you want to display app name (e.g. TiviMate) instead of app package name (e.g. ar.tvplayer.tv ) on Media control card you can do this with media_player.template integration. You can install it with HACS or manually. The integration allows to set custom medi…

In case anyone else see’s this through google, I was attempting to do the same and appears you can configure this directly in the Android remote integration now. Going to Device info and configuring your android remote integration, it gives you the option to add apps. Just a heads up

Yes, I can add apps, but my remote.living_room_tv and media_player.living_room_tv entities still only display current activity such as “com.netflix.ninja” for example and not as “Netflix” which would be the desired view. [image]

Curiously, I revisited my apps list in the integrations and it will display the ‘Netflix’ as current activity provided that it uses the common google based App ID: “com.netflix.ninja”. But this fails to work when using “deep links” such as: “ https://app.primevideo.com ”

Thx for the heads up - I found this through google :smiley: New user playing around looking for a solution to wake up my plex server when the plex app opens on the TV… after weeks of digging for solutions and a couple days playing with webhooks, macdroid and the plex integration… I got it to work …

Displaying the correct app names on Android TV using configuration.yaml

Configuration

Stiltjack April 17, 2024, 11:28am 2

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