There was a big thread of google TV deep links elsewhere in the fourms and there where a few people asking about NOWTV. After fiddling a bit and doing some remote debugging with my phone i finally managed to work out NOW’s deeplink format. And made a script to launch the channels on google tv devices.
Currently it only supports the sports channels(as that is the only package i have access to) but its pretty easy to extend, the best way i have found to get the channel numbers(3835 for f1) is to go to live tv page in a web browser on a computer and look for the last bit of the url. For example here is the Sky Sports F1 URL https://www.nowtv.com/watch/playback/live/3835.
Then you just add a item to the dictionary in the variables step and the name you used in the dictionary to the channel_name field filter
The Script
sequence:
- variables:
channel: |
{% set sky_channels = {
"f1":3835,
"mix":4090,
"main":4002,
"prem":4010,
"football":3939,
"cricket":4081,
"golf":4026,
"tennis":1284,
"plus":3940}
%}
{{sky_channels[channel_name]}}
- if:
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ not states(media_player_i)|bool }}"
then:
- action: media_player.turn_on
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
entity_id: "{{media_player_i}}"
- delay:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 5
milliseconds: 0
- action: media_player.play_media
data:
media_content_type: url
media_content_id: >-
https://www.nowtv.com/deeplink?deeplinkData={"serviceKey":"{{channel}}","type":"LINEAR_CHANNEL","action":"PLAY"}
target:
entity_id: "{{ media_player_i }}"
fields:
channel_name:
selector:
select:
options:
- f1
- prem
- mix
- main
- football
- cricket
- golf
- tennis
- plus
name: channel_name
required: true
media_player_i:
selector:
entity:
filter:
- integration: androidtv_remote
domain: media_player
name: media player
required: true
alias: Open Now TV Channel
description: ""