The Android TV platform uses the Android TV Remote integration for regular commands and the Android Debug Bridge for the keyboard. You need to setup the latter via Home Assistant and provide the remote entity ID created by that integration as the keyboard ID.
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Perfect, thank you, I didn’t know about Android Debug Bridge. I have it running now, but I notice that it’s quite slow and when I type quickly, some letters are skipped. Is that normal behavior?
Yup. ADB is slow. It’s mentioned in the README. Letter skipping shouldn’t happen too often.
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Hi @Nerwyn , i upgraded to 4.0.3 and now i get an error where it says the card doesnt exist. i have tried restarting HA. Also tried rolling back to 3.9.4 and still the same
EDIT: added a symbolic link as below and it started working ln -s /config/www/community /hacsfiles
Would anyone know how to install this card without HACS?
Sounds like a HACS path issue, possibly related to HACS v2. You should check your resources list and make sure that the listing for this card is using the new file name /hacsfiles/android-tv-card/universal-remote-card.min.js. and not the old android-tv-card.min.js file name.
Everything was in its place and other HACS installs worked fine. Strangely only this one was being impacted. I verified the filesystem path and it was also correct. Using the new name.
Is it possible to use this with a Chromecast with Google TV without the Android TV Remote integration?
I am having issues with this integration which requires me to remove and re-pair the integration weekly. I have the ADB integration enabled which works fine without needing to re-pair. Can you use this ADB integration for navigation (touchpad, volume, home, back etc.?)
Thanks!
The Fire TV platform uses ADB, try that.
Anyone seeing this issue where icons that have a CSS style applied to them show up blue when the if statement is false? This only happens on iOS and not Mac.
:host {
--icon-color:
{% if is_state_attr('media_player.music_flow_sh7b_3c_8a', 'is_volume_muted', true ) %}
red
{% endif %}
}
The icons below the trackpad do not have a CSS style applied with an if statement and they show up white as expected.
It’s an issue with how iOS WebView handles CSS inheritance. Does it still happen if you move the template around --icon-color or define icon color using the icon selector (or a combination of the two)?
:host {
{% if is_state_attr('media_player.music_flow_sh7b_3c_8a', 'is_volume_muted', true ) %}
--icon-color: red;
{% endif %}
}
.icon{
color:
{% if is_state_attr('media_player.music_flow_sh7b_3c_8a', 'is_volume_muted', true ) %}
red;
{% endif %}
}
No luck with either option unfortunately. I tried adding elif statement as below but the icon disappears
</s> <s>:host {</s> <s> --icon-color: </s> <s> {% if is_state_attr('media_player.music_flow_sh7b_3c_8a', 'is_volume_muted', true ) %}</s> <s> red</s> <s> {% elif %}</s> <s> white</s> <s> {% endif %}</s> <s>}</s> <s>
Scratch that using the below worked!
.icon{
color:
{% if is_state_attr('media_player.music_flow_sh7b_3c_8a', 'is_volume_muted', true ) %}
red;
{% endif %}
}Hi, one of my cards is impacted by breaking changes to V4. I guess I have to replace “touchpad_style” and probably “custom_keys” as they are no longer part of the documentation, but not totally sure how to implement the changes.
Would you mind providing some guidance and/or reference to the relevant procedure? Thank you!
- type: custom:android-tv-card
remote_id: remote.rss
rows:
- - touchpad
touchpad_style:
height: 10rem
background: transparent
opacity: 20%
custom_keys:
up:
service: script.rss_headlines_increment
down:
service: script.rss_headlines_decrement
left:
service: script.rss_headlines_increment
right:
service: script.rss_headlines_decrement
center:
action: url
url_path: |
{% set n = states('counter.news_rss_counter') | int %}
{{ state_attr('sensor.radio_canada_rss','entries')[n].link }}
You need to open your remote in the new configuration UI and click on UPDATE OLD CONFIG at the bottom of the general tab. It’s mentioned in the v4 post above, the v4 release notes, and the README.
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Anyone got working yaml for keyboard to work? Using an ADB device it always says One of entity_id must be provided.
I’ve provided the ADB device like this just to test.
- type: custom:android-tv-card
remote_id: remote.living_room_google_tv
media_player_id: media_player.living_room_google_tv
rows:
- keyboard
If you use the configuration UI, there’s a field for keyboard_id.
I use a yaml config for HA so don’t think that’s possible.
Oops, Missed it. Was expecting manual changes / not used to seeing transition tools like this, great work. Thanks for your support.
I’m trying to get this set up for my SamsungTV. I was using the TV Remote Card but this seems to have a few limitations - and also looks abandoned.
With the other remote, I was able to add buttons to go immediately to a particular channel. I used the following code to do this:
bbc_1:
icon: mdi:numeric-1-box
service: media_player.play_media
service_data:
entity_id: media_player.kitchentv
media_content_id: '101'
media_content_type: channel
I’m not sure how I would add that to this remote though.
Also - selecting a source doesn’t seem to function either. Not sure what is going on there!
Use the configuration UI! You should just have to provide your Samsung TV entity IDs and set platform to Samsung. You can also add custom actions using the UI for new sources.