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Control Philips TVs (2015+) and Ambilight (+ Hue) through their reverse-engineered API (+ MQTT support!)
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[FEAT] Launch shutdown/restart menu #65

Closed popy2k14 closed 4 years ago

popy2k14 commented 4 years ago

Hey @eslavnov,

hope you and your family are doing well these days?

I have an idea regarding launching the shutdown/restart menu on the android TV over pylips.

In the toengel blog there is an interesting entry which allows to map the shutdown/restart menu to any button (except standby). Also starting apps, activities can be launched this way!

Here it is: https://toengel.net/philipsblog/2020/04/02/philips-android-tv-fernbedienung-neu-belegen-neustart-restart-dialog-anzeigen/

Launching apps is already supported by pylips and using activities (as i understand, sorry not so deep in android).

So would it be possible to send the "show shutdown/restart" activity over pylips to the tv?

thanks a lot Tobias

eslavnov commented 4 years ago

Hey @popy2k14 ,

Good to hear from you! We are doing well, how are you?

Unfortunately, I am not familiar with the intent/activity required to show this menu. I am also not getting anything from the API when I use activities/current command when this menu is open, so I am not sure it's possible. I'll re-open this issue if I stumble upon a solution, but I would not count on that.

I'd say the easiest solution is indeed to use the Button Mapper app (I've been using it myself for several years) with a combination of Pylips's send key command - just remap one of the keys to show this menu and use Pylips to trigger that key.

popy2k14 commented 4 years ago

Hi @eslavnov .

Thanks, we are fine too.

Thanks for the hint! Finally i have an easy accessible shutdown/reboot menu.