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update installation instructions for firetv (#1131)
Added packages that must be installed to run firetv-server on hassbian/ubuntu 16.04.
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@ -27,13 +27,28 @@ Steps to configure your Amazon Fire TV stick with Home Assistant:
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- Find Amazon Fire TV device IP:
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- From the main (Launcher) screen, select Settings.
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- Select System > About > Network.
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- `pip install firetv[firetv-server]` into a Python 2.x environment
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- If installed on Debian Jessie then the libssl-dev and python-dev packages are needed. Install them with `apt-get install libssl-dev python-dev`
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- The following commands must be run in a Python 2.x environment. They will allow the component to function in an Ubuntu 16.04/Hassbian enviorment.
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- `apt-get install swig libssl-dev python-dev libusb-1.0-0`
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- `pip install flask`
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- `pip install https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/M/M2Crypto/M2Crypto-0.24.0.tar.gz`
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- `pip install firetv[firetv-server]`
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- `firetv-server -d <fire tv device IP>:5555`, background the process
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- Navigate to http://localhost:5556/devices/list
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- You will get an output similar to below:
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```json
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{
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"devices": {
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"default": {
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"host": "192.168.1.153:5555",
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"state": "play"
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}
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}
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}
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```
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- The `"default"` above is the device name you will need to use for your `configuration.yaml`
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- Configure Home Assistant as follows:
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To add FireTV to your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file:
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To add FireTV to your installation, Note your device name, and add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file:
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```yaml
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# Example configuration.yaml entry
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