Native support for Android TV / Android devices

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Has anyone updated to .91.1 and has it resolved the issue?

224

This is the fix. One can use the custom component in the meantime.

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225

Dear, someone here guide me.
I would like to turn on my androidtv box with broadlink.
How to add custom command in turn on command provided in new config.

226

dear,
i would like to add broadlink send packet for turning on androidtv as turn_on_command.
Please guide, how to do?
thanks in adv

227

Hi there,

I am trying to set up my nvidia shield tv as android tv using ADB but it is not working.
Out of the box HA discover Nvidia as casting device, but when I try to set up androidtv component I am getting error:

Exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/zeroconf.py", line 2101, in send
bytes_sent = s.sendto(packet, 0, (addr, port))
PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted

Any help please.

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Did you use the ADB server method using the ADB add-on for Hassio?

If not, how have you tried to set things up?

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Ok so from start I did not install anything and HA out of the box recognized in Integrations:

Google cast with
NVIDIA TV
media_player.nvidia_tv
I can control a bit this one turn on but not off, volume sometimes works, skipping tracks works.

In entities I have additional player as well

Kodi on Shield
media_player.kodi_android_3_local
kodi

And there is an error in the HA
Exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/zeroconf.py", line 2101, in send bytes_sent = s.sendto(packet, 0, (addr, port)) PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted

But after installing ADB bridge I finally can connect to nvidia on port 5555 and player appeared on Overview NVIDIA TV
com.google.android.tvlauncher

I can control it on/off, etc. So all good it seems but that error about zeroconf.py is still in the logs so should I disregard it?

How to turn off google cast integration which start at? do not want this one.

Cheers

230

Hey all of you,
i had my firth working befor 91.4 but now it doesn’t work anymore. does anyone has a clue how to fix it? my config: error i get is

Could not connect to Fire TV at 192.168.178.53:5555 using ADB server at 127.0.0.1:5037

      - platform: androidtv
        name: Fire TV
        device_class: firetv
        host: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
        adbkey: "/home/pi/.android/adbkey"
        get_sources: true
        adb_server_ip: 127.0.0.1
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Try reconnecting, restarting, reconnectin

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hey thanks for the quick answer first of all, do you mean:

add kill-server
adb start-server
adb connect xx.xx.xxx
sudo systemctl restart home-assistant

?

233

I had to restart my android device (fire tv), then restart home assistant after the device booted back up.

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234

that finally worked for me, got my component back running!

thanks to all of you!

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media_player.volume_up and media_player.volume_down services stopped working for NVIDIA Shield with HA 0.92

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Everything is working for me. 0.92.1 installed. Thanks.

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I’m trying to start an android app using the example on the component page:

 sequence:
 - service: media_player.select_source
   data:
     entity_id: media_player.fire_tv_living_room
     source: 'com.netflix.ninja'

With my own configuration offcourse:

      sequence:
      - service: media_player.select_source
        data:
          entity_id: media_player.android_tv
          source: 'nl.nlziet'

But there is no result. Nothing. What am I missing?

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I’m using this addon with a FireTv Stick and its working great! However the state doesn’t reflect wether its currentl playing or not. As soon as I launch an App (Netflix/Amazon Video) it stays as “paused” independently wether im playing or paused.

Is this a known issue?

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It’s a known issue and isn’t easily solvable.

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For Fire TV devices, you can launch an app using the media_player.select_source command.

This is only supported for Fire TV devices.

But you can launch apps using intents from here: ADB intents.

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241

Thanks. I’ll try that

242

Hello.
I created the folder config\custom_components\androidtv and have in it the files:

init.py
media_player.py
manifest.json
and a folder pycache
In this folder there are 2 files: init.cpython-37.pyc & media_player.cpython-37.pyc

In my config file I have:
`

  • platform: androidtv
    host: xxx.xxx.xx.xxx
    name: MIBOX3
    apps:
    netflix: “Netflix”
    adb_server_port: 5037
    adb_server_ip: 127.0.0.1
    `

I am also running the add-on ADB - Android Debug Bridge V 0.4.1

In HA.log file I get:
WARNING (SyncWorker_6) [custom_components.androidtv.media_player] Could not connect to MIBOX3 at xxx.xxx.xx.xxx:5555

Also enabled USB Debugging in mibox3 and checked the pop up allowing access.

What am I doing wrong??? I am confused a bit…

Thanks!