Enhancing Google TV with Home Assistant Integration

Feature Requests
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Subject: Enhancing Google TV with Home Assistant Integration

Feedback on Home Assistant for Google TV

Google TV would greatly benefit from a dedicated Home Assistant application. As the leading open-source home automation platform, Home Assistant offers unparalleled customization and control. Bringing this powerful tool to the Google TV ecosystem would enhance user experience, foster innovation, and solidify Google’s position in the smart home market.

I strongly recommend developing a native Home Assistant app for Google TV and making it available on the Google Play Store. After the suggestion implemented other Android Tv Users could enjoy it too I mean It would also be available on any Android Tv (including Google 4K Chrome-cast)

Thank you for considering this feedback.

Kindest And Warmest Regards,

Sincerely,

Pooya Mohammadhossein

Pooya M

(Nick name Ryan)

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Yes, HA native app would be a must. Monitoring the whole house directly from the couch (maybe while watch a Netflix movie).

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Isn’t Google tv essentially Android? Does the Android companion app work?

And doesn’t Google tv have a browser?

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The Android companion app works, but it is built for touch screens
It works if you connect a mouse. But it’s not a easy task, you need a hub with power support for the google tv unit.

We need a app with support for google tv remote control

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So you’re looking for remote control support.

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Not only that, we need an app that is adapted to the Google TV interface and uses their app control

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Yes, at least Stefan and pome got my point, and we are absolutely right on my request. Cheers!
Pooya

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I think that having an Android for TV specific companion app would be beneficial once Android for TV 14 is released. The biggest reason is that it can take advantage of the finally released PiP (picture in picture) mode that should become available in the Android 14 for TV update (if the manufacturer supports it).

From what I understand after reading this post, the app would need to explicitly declare the intended use of the PiP mode, and natively support playing a feed from the app itself. I’m not certain if a side-loaded standard android companion app does either of these. It certainly fits into the second category of content the Google would approve of.

Some ideas I had around using this native app:

  • Open a PiP to show live feed of security cameras/doorbells without interrupting the currently playing stream
  • Send notifications to the TV for certain events (thinking proximity, bedtimes, doorbells, motion, fire alarm notifications [it could tell you which has a low battery rather than running around the house trying to find the chirp])
  • Create a TV dashboard for house guests to more easily control lights/scenes/etc. without them needing to have a sign-in for HA themselves (like a guest kiosk dashboard)

Thanks in advance to the developers who step up to the challenge! I’ve got two HiSense branded Google TVs and an nVidia Shield TV that I’m willing to test on. I’m also about to purchase a new Google TV Streamer to replace the nVidia with that would likely be the first to support it.

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Friends with Apple TV and some other apps have the ability to PIP motion alerts and doorbell rings. That type of integration with HA is what I want to see. Allow customizations for how and which notifications PiP and go away after a while (if configured).