Fire TV Stick 4K can't turn off tv via ADB

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So… there is no option to cleanly shut down a Fire TV using ADB commands?

I for now use a (quite ugly) workaround by sending this key combinations:

HOME
HOME
CENTER
HOME
--------
LEFT
LEFT
LEFT
DOWN
DOWN
DOWN
CENTER
DOWN
DOWN
DOWN
CENTER

This activates the “deep sleep” of FireTV - which is obviously no power off, as the device still responds to echo requests (ping) on the network.
Note that until the “-------” it’s a bit of error control cause we never know in what state the Fire TV currently is (home screen or profile selection pre-screen e.g.).

Does someone know if there’s a technical difference between the

  • SLEEP (ADB command) and the
  • deep sleep function selected in Fire TV (long press HOME and switch right to sleep (dunno what it is in English)

:question:

If SLEEP is the same all that send key commands party can be replaced.

For real power off:
I searched the whole web (really, not much left out there :smiley: ):

  1. I also tried to send few ADB commands mentioned here where only poweroff -p is working …and it reboots the Fire TV, does not shut it down.
  2. This one looked promising, but in the end keyevent 26 is the well-known SLEEP command. :frowning:
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For me “reboot -p” works well and shutdowns the fire tv. The problem is that in order to power it on again it needs to be unplugged and then reconnected to the mains.

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So idea why. As mentioned, for me using „reboot -p“…

reboots the Fire TV, does not shut it down.

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My solution is to use the Alexa Media Player from HACS.

service: media_player.play_media
target:
  entity_id: media_player.guest_room
data:
  media_content_type: custom
  media_content_id: 'turn off tv'