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Enhancement: Functionality with Android TV #13

Closed arraylabs closed 5 years ago

arraylabs commented 7 years ago

Any thoughts on what it would take to get it working with Android TV (nvidia shield). I connected to my shield via adb and the "pm dump" and "am start" commands work and I can launch apps by package name from an adb shell via the network. Adding the device ip:port to firetvserver essentially stops it from working at all (the rest interface at least) but i don't get any errors in the console.

Thoughts, ideas on where to start? I already have a fork with the start/stop fixes by juliangeiges and the persistance changes as well.

Thanks!!

juliangeiges commented 7 years ago

@arraylabs When you checked it, do you still where connected to your shield manually? I`ve also seen this error (FireTV server stops from working at all) wenn there is allready one ADB connection to the Firetv.

arraylabs commented 7 years ago

@juliangeiges I haven't had too much time recently to continue working on it. But I'm not entirely convinced that I was "authorized" via ADB to to the shield. I know I was when the shield was connected to my desktop, but not sure it was when running in docker inside a virtual machine in VMware. So kinda stuck at that point and haven't thought of a brilliant way to get "authorized" in the vm docker. I will get back to it at some point especially now since the shield just got the playstation vue app. Thanks!

arsaboo commented 7 years ago

It seems we can run the same adb commands on Android TV, so should be relatively easy to extend this to Android TV. For example, on Android TV, the following works:

adb connect <ip address of Shield TV>
adb shell am start com.netflix.ninja/.MainActivity

Let me know if I can help you in extending this to Android TV (Shield TV).

happyleavesaoc commented 7 years ago

The shield is apparently running Android Kitkat, which requires authentication: https://github.com/google/python-adb#using-as-a-python-library

jonasgrosch commented 7 years ago

Hey, also owning the shield tv and i am very interested in this. Getting authentication error like you mentioned. Could you help me getting it work?

fotiDim commented 6 years ago

I tested with my Shield TV and almost everything works. I don't understand why this project is Fire TV branded. The only things that didn't work were apps/running and <app_id>/stop which might be due to new security policies or settings within developer options.

JeffLIrion commented 5 years ago

There are some differences between Fire TV and Android TV devices. Using this package as a starting point, I created the androidtv package. Integration into HA is a work in progress; here is a recent iteration of the component: androidtv.py.