Nerwyn / android-tv-card

A completely customizable universal remote card for Home Assistant. Supports multiple platforms out of the box.
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Use Chromecast for keyboard inputs, rather than ADB #89

Open ROBOT0-VT opened 5 months ago

ROBOT0-VT commented 5 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Can't use keyboard without enabling ADB (which increases the device's security risk)

Describe the solution you'd like The keyboard functionality should use the cast or remote integrations (or another method), rather than ADB; in a similar way to the google TV app

Describe alternatives you've considered N/A

Additional context I've had a look at the following similar issues:

I believe this issue should be tracked, and closed once a fix is possible

Nerwyn commented 5 months ago

This is a dead end until someone reverse engineers the Android TV Remote API keyboard commands.

ROBOT0-VT commented 5 months ago

Agreed, but it should still be tracked