[Deprecated] Native support for Fire TV

Picnic · February 21, 2019, 4:39am

Thanks for all your work Jeff!

capstan1 · February 28, 2019, 9:33pm

Hi!
After updating to 0.88.2 the Fire TV card disappeared. The notification shows:

Did anyone else run into that? Any idea how to solve it?

wmaker · March 1, 2019, 1:43am

It looks like its complaining of configuration parameters that are no longer valid,
so if correct you’ll need to delete those parameter.

I just started using Fire TV for the first time in 0.88.1 (and still using 0.88.1).
Here is my configuration (under media_player):

  - platform: firetv
    name: Fire TV 
    host: <IPAddressOfFireTV>
    adbkey: <configDirectory>/.homeassistant/android/adbkey

capstan1 · March 1, 2019, 7:16am

Which fireTV (stick) are you using?
On my 4K one, this config didn’t work previously, I had to do it with the Android debug bridge Addon.

wmaker · March 1, 2019, 6:57pm

I have a Gen2 (1K). I’m not using the add-on, so it may be different…but I would think not very much different. I also have to use the Android Debug Bridge to build the keys and such.

capstan1 · March 2, 2019, 11:02am

Tried the native way again (getting the keys using Android Debug Bridge) and then using the configuration you are showing.
FireTV Shows up in Lovelace and I can control it once, then it disconnects and won’t reconnect until I restart HA. It’s the same as described here.

CBRHerms · March 2, 2019, 8:12pm

It’s not seeing your custom component due to how they are picked up now, so it’s not overwriting the inbuilt one.
Should be called media_player.py in a folder named after the component, so…

firetv/media_player.py

jaaem · March 10, 2019, 4:58pm

How do I use/install the adb server if I do not use hass.io? I tried running both:
adb -a server nodaemon &
adb start-server &

but the commponent will not connect. Should I use your below docker script as a service?
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JeffLIrion/hassio-adb-server-addon/master/adb_server/run.sh

dshokouhi · March 10, 2019, 6:07pm

@jaaem what does your yaml look like? I also noticed that you need to run adb connect <IP> on the device you wish to connect with in order for it to connect.

jaaem · March 10, 2019, 6:09pm

Thanks. I edited a version of the docker script, and it seems to work now. I only hard coded one device, but hopefully it will work

#!/bin/bash

DEVICES=(192.168.1.167)

echo "Starting up ADB..."

while true; do
  adb -a server nodaemon > /dev/null 2>&1
  sleep 10
done &

echo "Server started. Waiting for 30 seconds..."
sleep 30

echo "Connecting to devices."
for device in $DEVICES; do
   adb connect $device
done
echo "Done."

while true; do
  for device in $DEVICES; do
    adb connect $device > /dev/null 2>&1
  done
  sleep 60
done

mkono87 · March 31, 2019, 6:56pm

This unfortunately has been a headache and a half trying to get it work with HA. Both HA and ADB containers are running in unraid. If I just pull sorccu/adb container and then manual connect and restart ha. It connects np. Once I try adding a script for it to auto connect it does connect np but HA will not connect to adb at all. So stuck with this. This is the script im using. The Jaaem one I tried but the container just shuts down right away.

#!/bin/sh

sleep 5

DEVICES="192.168.0.206"

echo "Connecting to devices."
for device in $DEVICES; do
   adb connect $device
done
echo "Done."

while true; do
  for device in $DEVICES; do
    adb connect $device > /dev/null 2>&1
  done
  sleep 60
done

blitzer · May 2, 2019, 5:30am

I can not use media_player.select_source to open netflix as sample in Android TV component on hassio 0.92.1 and Fire 4k Stick
script file:

      mo_youtube:
       sequence:
         - service: media_player.turn_on
           data:
             entity_id:  media_player.fire_4k_tv
         - service: media_player.select_source
           data:
             entity_id: media_player.living_room_tv
             source: "HDMI 1"
         - service: media_player.select_source
           data:
             entity_id:  media_player.fire_4k_tv
             source: 'com.netflix.ninja'

Besides, how can i get app id of firefox browser (or other apps) on amazon fire 4k tv? Please help me @JeffLIrion

JeffLIrion · May 2, 2019, 1:14pm

Try sending this command via the androidtv.adb_command service and see if it launches Netflix:

monkey -p android.intent.category.LAUNCHER -c com.netflix.ninja 1; echo $?

Regarding your script, you might need to wait until HA recognizes that the device is on before calling the media_player.select_source service. You can do that via:

  - wait_template: "{{ not is_state('media_player.fire_4k_tv', 'off') }}"
    timeout: 00:00:10

To find out the app_id, open the app and look at the app_id attribute for the media player on the states page.

blitzer · May 3, 2019, 2:41pm

Thanks for replying @JeffLIrion.

=> I tried but it can not launch Netflix

JeffLIrion · May 3, 2019, 3:34pm

https://gist.github.com/mcfrojd/9e6875e1db5c089b1e3ddeb7dba0f304#start-apps-on-your-shield

Try this:

{"entity_id" :"media_player.shield", "command": "am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d -n com.netflix.ninja/.MainActivity"}

blitzer · May 3, 2019, 5:04pm

It works like a charm. Thank you so much

awesome_ha · May 7, 2019, 4:21am

Hi, i got hassio to connect to firetv using ADB add on. On/off and pause/play work, but the volume controls are not working. I tried calling androidtv.adb_command with command VOLUME_UP, and also media_player.volume_up service, both do not work. I have info logging enabled for hassio, i do not see any errors or anything in log. please help. thank you.

JeffLIrion · May 8, 2019, 1:50pm

Fire TV devices don’t support volume control. At least, my 2nd generation Fire TV sticks do not, not have I heard of anyone with a newer device reporting that it supports volume control.

acraig91 · May 16, 2019, 5:17pm

Hello, I have been trying to get my firestick set up using
Hassio
ADB - Android Debug Bridge

media_player:

platform: androidtv
name: Firestick
device_class: firetv
host: 192.168.0.7
adb_server_ip: 127.0.0.1

I can’t see my media_player.firestick entity

Please tell me whats wrong thank you
adb logs say i am connected to the IP adress

Bartem · May 19, 2019, 5:55pm

I’m not sure of the details of previous issue but I just tried it with media_player volume_up service which worked and I have it set with a key_event in a script also and both change the volume on my Toshiba with FireTV built in… if I can provide anymore info let me know.

Edit: it seems I have two entities though and the Volume_up service is working with one that I think possibly got generated from my Alexa App having the fire tv linked. (Would have been pulled from the alexa as media player custom component most likely)