"Hey Google, Find my remote"

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In my house I have two NVIDIA Shield Android TV’s. A unique feature that the shield has is “Find my remote”. You can open up the shield app and then in the 3 dots menu hit find my remote and as long as it’s within (bluetooth?) range of the shield the remote starts beeping.

I think it’s incredibly useful, but I don’t want to have to use the shield app. I came across Nvidia Shield Remote Locator : homeassistant (reddit.com) and realized I could wire it up to GH.

  1. Set up the Android TV integration with the Shield in configuration.yaml 
media_player:
  - platform: androidtv
    name: Living Room shield_adb
    host: !secret living_room_android_tv_ip
  1. Set up Google Assistant integration
  2. Create an extra script for find my remote (in scripts.yaml)
remote_finder_living_room:
  alias: Remote Finder Living Room
  icon: mdi:target
  mode: single
  sequence:
    - data:
        command: am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d -n com.nvidia.remotelocator/.ShieldRemoteLocatorActivity
        entity_id: media_player.living_room_shield_adb
      service: androidtv.adb_command
  1. In the Google Assistant config expose the extra script (it will expose as a scene)
google_assistant:
  project_id: !secret google_assistant_project_id
  service_account: !include google_service_account.json
  exposed_domains:
    - switch
    - light
  entity_config:
    script.remote_finder_living_room:
      expose: true
  1. Sync GA devices.
  2. Create a routine in the Google Home app to activate that scene
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  3. Profit
    Here’s a video of it in action: https://youtu.be/ZOjZ2DTkxCQ
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Nice! Thank you for this.

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Thank you for sharing this, very handy.

Just a note, I tried skipping the step 6 “Create a routine in the Google Home app to activate that scene”.
Instead, I say “Run, find my remote”, which also works.

However, I found this a little annoying, so created the routine in the Google Home app. I can also confirm this works for everyone in the home and not just with my voice.

Great work, thank you.

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How do you handle multiple remotes?

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I have multiple shields and just make multiple scripts for each.

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I don’t think there’s a parameter for selecting the specific remote (if there is, it’s well hidden). When you fire the action for a given Shield, it just beeps all the remotes for that Shield at once. Good enough for the rare occasion I need it (when the fluorescent blue and green silicon remote covers aren’t enough for me to spot them amongst all my stuff!)

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You’re the coolest person on the Internet for posting this. Thank you.

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You will be even cooler if you could explain how could I convert this code into the button on my dashboard (I want to press to find the remote).

Thanks in advance!

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It’s actually super easy. You just add the script entity to your dashboard and you end up with a button!

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Thanks for quick response. I must be too thick or doing something wrong (to be honest I have HA from Sunday). I have this:

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However doesn’t come up as enitity when I search for it?

**EDIT: Done it! Had to restart HA! **

Thanks!

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Hello,

Sorry for the bump, but I haven’t seen any posts that discuss how to make the work for the current integrations with Home Assistant. Looks like this post was back in January of 2021. A lot has changed in Home Assistant since then. It looks like Android TV integration “media_player” doesn’t exist anymore. Is there a way to integrate a NVIDIA Shield so I can use Home Assistant to locate the Remote?

@superm1 I figured it’s one of 3 things?

  1. You kept you HA install at an older version.
  2. You figured out a way to make things work for the current state of HA.
  3. You are no longer using this setup.
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I’m still using it and it definitely still works but I am on 2023.05 or so because of some other bugs in a tplink integration.

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Instructions work fine for me on latest home assistant.

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I followed the directions and had some errors but fixed them. Now I am able to run the command without errors but nothing happens. No error but my remote doesn’t make the sound.

UPDATE:
On entity ID I had to choose:
entity_id: media_player.android_tv_192_168_69_73

192_168_69_73 being my shield pro IP

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I am up to date in Home Assistant and everything still works with both of my shields. I haven’t changed anything since what I posted above.