Native support for Android TV / Android devices

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but it works to turn on a switch that wakes up the shield and run the application, for example, Netflix?

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Yes it does!

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I do this but I get connection refusedā€¦?

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Have you:

  1. enabled adb over network in the developer settings on the shield?
  2. Accepted the popup when you try to connect?

I just got this working tonight and it works quite well.

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  1. yes

  2. mmhhh it did not appear ā€¦ will try again later, maybe I missed it ā€¦ not sure

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Hey mate, you can set a from playing to paused automation for the lights. See here.

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If it did not appear, try going into the developer settings and clearing all adb keys and then try to connect again. It can be a bit finnicky.

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Thanks will try it.

My Shield goes into sleep mode (or whatever it is, the green led lights go to off), whenever I turn off my TV/Receiver (I guess its the CEC function?).

Will I still be able to send a command (turn on Netflix) that wakes up the Shield and runs the app Netflix?

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Yeah, it still stays connected when asleep. However, I am not sure if app launching has been integrated yet.

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Not sure if this can be usefull for @a1ex4 but there is an amazing plugin for Jeedom on github: https://github.com/Jeedom-Plugins-Extra/plugin-AndroidRemoteControl

This plugin also uses ADB Server and got a lot of nice features that would be awesome if added to your plugin :slight_smile:

Oh and btw, theyā€™re also french, it seems that weā€™re the only one using AndroidTV with home automations :smiley:

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Hello,
my HA is installed on Raspbian in Docker, I tried:
apk --update-cache --repository http://dl-3.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/ add android-tools

but canā€™t add this package, I got:

BlockquoteERROR: unsatisfiable constraints:
android-tools (missing):
required by: world[android-tools]

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At the very moment there is no android-tools package in the Alpine for armhf architecture (i.e. Raspberry Pi 3). The available packages are for x86 systems: https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=android-tools&branch=edge&repo=testing

Until the armhf android-tools package is available (again?) you may use a ready Docker image for armhf with adb installed. This one might work: https://hub.docker.com/r/sorccu/adb

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For the Hassio users in here:

Topic: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/community-hass-io-add-on-adb-android-debug-bridge/96375

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Anything special to think of if I want to switch to the Frenck addon instead of @noedelvreter addon? Will everything blow up. Anyone switched?

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@frenck Thanks for the add-on, working great

@M203 Nope, just uninstall mine and then install frenckā€™s version. And then accept the dialog on all your devices.

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How do I find out what the apps I use are called to write it in the config ?

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Iā€™m running this on a Shield TV and have the following issues:

  • Once I launch an app the status switches to playing even if iā€™m not playing any media within that app.
  • The lag time between opening an app and that change propogating back to HAss can be quite significant.

My use case is to dim lights when I start playing a show on Netflix but both of these issues are blockers for me doing that at the moment.
Anyone else having these problems?

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Great, thanks.

Did you use this https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-adb/blob/master/custom_components/media_player/androidtv.py or the one previously mentioned in this thread by jefflirion?

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So, I switched all of it. Works but I feel that there is more of a lag than before. All in all, works just fine!

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Hello, my dear. How to add button for launch app?