SOLVED: Amazon Fire TV Cube automation

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Hi -

I’m trying to write a script to turn my Amazon FireTV Cube (and TV) on, then play a specific video on Netflix.

So far I’ve:

  • Enabled ADB on the Cube
  • Verified that I can ping it
  • Installed adb-homeassistant in the virtualenv
  • Added the following to configuration.yaml:
media_player:
  - platform: androidtv
    name: Fire TV Cube
    host: 192.168.0.17

If I go to the services page and run service androidtv.adb_command against the entity with data:

entity_id: media_player.fire_tv_cube
command: am start -n com.netflix.ninja/.MainActivity -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d netflix://title/80092835 -f 0x10000020 -e "amzn_deeplink_data" "80092835"

It plays the video in Netflix - All good.

The problem is I want the cube to turn on the TV if it’s not already on. If I say ‘Alexa play XYZ on Netflix’ it will turn the TV on then start playing. The command above doesn’t turn the TV on, and I can’t find a way of doing so - Any help much appreciated!

Thanks,

Neil

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Solved:

Just execute:

command: HOME
entity_id: media_player.fire_tv_cube

first :slight_smile:

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