Voice Assist: unable to control an Android TV Remote media entity that doesn't report Playing state

[tannisroot]

The problem

I am using the Android TV Remote integratation to communicate with my TCL C845 Android TV, and it's not possible to control the device using the new Media Controls intents (pause/unpause/resume etc). The entity is exposed to Assist, but my guess is that because the integration does not report the playing state, Assist doesn't know that it's a media entity that can be controlled, despite the integration providing such controls (and they do work via Web UI). Using the alternative, older "Android Debug Bridge" integration that does report playing state and such, Assist is able to control the TV just fine. I think Assist should support media entities that don't report playing state, if feasible. Maybe, only if the entity is specified in the intent?

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2024.6.4

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

Assist

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/assist_pipeline/

Diagnostics information

Here's the log from the intent with which I tried to control the Android TV Remote entity: affected_intent_android_tv_remote.txt

Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

Here are attributes of the Android TV Remote entity that I am trying to control while it's playing something:
State: on
volume_level: 0.07
is_volume_muted: false
app_id: com.google.android.youtube.tv
app_name: com.google.android.youtube.tv
assumed_state: true
device_class: tv
friendly_name: Bedroom TV
supported_features: 22457

Additional information

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[tannisroot]

I know Android TV Remote integration suggests combining the media entity from Remote integration with the Cast integration (https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/androidtv_remote/#using-with-google-cast), but for some reason with my TV, that entity is always Off unless Home Assistant explicitly connects to the TV and starts casting something of its own.

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