I have an Android Box with multiple streaming & media-managing apps: Kodi (For my NAS content) Netflix Hulu XfinityTV (For Live TV) My question is how can I make the Android Box be seen as a media player entity in order to control playback (Pause, play, fast forward, rewind)? I have it plugged in…

But you said the error messages are still there…

Sorry, they disappeared after another restart of HA.

It’s actually doable, one trick is to check the state of the audio output tracks, if there is audio comming out then the state is playing. Although I couldn’t manage to get more info, like current playing media metadata. One way I thought about is with the notification system, I don’t if it’s every…

Hey, if I can get media state & ability to pause/play that’s good enough for me. :blush:

Depending on how the media state is read, the results may differ between platforms. From what I gathered earlier when trying to find a way to properly detect the state changes, the best way would be to see if the screen is awake and/or if the volume control is active. However, the latter requires t…

[image] teprrr: the latter requires that the app doing the playback is using the common android media api yeah well that doesn’t happen much…

Installed this as a custom component and it works fine, once the adb connect is issued everytime I restart HA Is there any way to make that happen, if I do a script that runs at startup, it would require to have the box started.

Which custom_component did you install? And can you provide a step-by-step guide?

This one, from A1ex4 : https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/16975 Put the androidtv.py in custom_component/media_player. In the configuration, I have created a media_player (amongst others) : media_player: - platform: androidtv host: !secret boxtv_host name: 'Box TV' …

So, if I’m running hassio on a pi, I would run the adb connect command directly on the pi? Not sure how I would do that since ssh AFAIK only gives me access to the hassio cli. As per your issue, I’m sure there has to be some way to automate the connect/reconnect, but I’m not well-enough versed in p…

How can I make an Android Box be recognized as Media Player?

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a1ex4 (Alex) December 4, 2018, 6:06pm 36

FYI, I created a thread to discuss the androidtv component, you should be able to try it now.