jeans/home-assistant.io
jeans/home-assistant.io
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io.git synced 2025-05-28 05:46:48 +00:00
Code Issues Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity
home-assistant.io/source/_components/androidtv.markdown

9.8 KiB
Raw Blame History

title, description, logo, ha_category, ha_release, ha_iot_class, redirect_from
title description logo ha_category ha_release ha_iot_class redirect_from
Android TV Instructions on how to integrate Android TV and Fire TV devices into Home Assistant. androidtv.png
Media Player
0.7.6 Local Polling
/components/media_player.firetv/

The androidtv platform allows you to control an Android TV device or Amazon Fire TV device.

Device preparation

To set up your device, you will need to find its IP address and enable ADB debugging. For Android TV devices, please consult the documentation for your device.

For Fire TV devices, the instructions are as follows:

  • Turn on ADB Debugging on your Amazon Fire TV:
    • From the main (Launcher) screen, select Settings.
    • Select System > Developer Options.
    • Select ADB Debugging.
  • Find Amazon Fire TV device IP address:
    • From the main (Launcher) screen, select Settings.
    • Select System > About > Network.

Configuration

# Example configuration.yaml entry
media_player:
  # Use the Python ADB implementation without authentication
  - platform: androidtv
    name: Android TV 1
    host: 192.168.0.111

  # Use the Python ADB implementation with authentication
  - platform: androidtv
    name: Android TV 2
    host: 192.168.0.222
    adbkey: "/config/android/adbkey"

  # Use an ADB server for sending ADB commands
  - platform: androidtv
    name: Android TV 3
    host: 192.168.0.123
    adb_server_ip: 127.0.0.1

{% configuration %} host: description: The IP address for your Android TV / Fire TV device. required: true type: string name: description: The friendly name of the device. required: false default: Android TV type: string port: description: The port for your Android TV / Fire TV device. required: false default: 5555 type: integer adbkey: description: The path to your adbkey file. required: false type: string adb_server_ip: description: The IP address of the ADB server. required: false type: string adb_server_port: description: The port for the ADB server. required: false default: 5037 type: integer get_sources: description: Whether or not to retrieve the running apps as the list of sources for Fire TV devices; not used for Android TV devices. required: false default: true type: boolean apps: description: A dictionary where the keys are app IDs and the values are app names that will be displayed in the UI; see example below. required: false default: {} type: map device_class: description: "The type of device: auto (detect whether it is an Android TV or Fire TV device), androidtv, or firetv." required: false default: auto type: string turn_on_command: description: An ADB shell command that will override the default turn_on command. required: false type: string turn_off_command: description: An ADB shell command that will override the default turn_off command. required: false type: string {% endconfiguration %}

Full Configuration

# Example configuration.yaml entry
media_player:
  # Use an ADB server to setup an Android TV device, provide
  # an app name, and override the default turn on/off commands
  - platform: androidtv
    name: Android TV
    device_class: androidtv
    host: 192.168.0.222
    adb_server_ip: 127.0.0.1
    apps:
      com.amazon.tv.launcher: "Fire TV"
    turn_on_command: "input keyevent 3"
    turn_off_command: "input keyevent 223"

  # Use the Python ADB implementation with authentication
  # to setup a Fire TV device and don't get the running apps
  - platform: androidtv
    name: Fire TV
    device_class: firetv
    host: 192.168.0.222
    adbkey: "/config/android/adbkey"
    get_sources: false

ADB Setup

This integration works by sending ADB commands to your Android TV / Fire TV device. There are two ways to accomplish this:

1. ADB Server

You can use an ADB server to connect to your Android TV and Fire TV devices.

For Hass.io users, you can install the Android Debug Bridge addon. Using this approach, Home Assistant will send the ADB commands to the server, which will then send them to the Android TV / Fire TV device and report back to Home Assistant. To use this option, add the adb_server_ip option to your configuration. If you are running the server on the same machine as Home Assistant, you can use 127.0.0.1 for this value.

2. Python ADB Implementation

The second option is to connect to your device using the adb Python package.

If your device requires ADB authentication, you will need to follow the instructions in the ADB Authentication section below. Once you have an authenticated key, this approach does not require any additional setup or addons. However, users with newer devices may find that the ADB connection is unstable. For a Fire TV device, you can try setting the get_sources configuration option to false. If the problem cannot be resolved, you should use the ADB server option.

ADB Authentication

If you get a "Device authentication required, no keys available" error when trying to set up your Android TV or Fire TV, then you'll need to create an adbkey and add its path to your configuration. Follow the instructions on this page to connect to your device from your computer: Connecting to Fire TV Through adb.

In the dialog appearing on your Android TV / Fire TV, you must check the box that says "always allow connections from this device." ADB authentication in Home Assistant will only work using a trusted key.

Once you've successfully connected to your Android TV / Fire TV via the command adb connect <ipaddress>, the file adbkey will be created on your computer. The default locations for this file is (from https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/adb):

  • Linux and Mac: $HOME/.android.
  • Windows: %userprofile%\.android.

Copy the adbkey file to your Home Assistant folder and add the path to the adbkey file to your configuration.

ADB Troubleshooting

If you receive the error message Error while setting up platform androidtv in your log when trying to set up an Android TV or Fire TV device, then there is probably an issue with your ADB connection. Here are some possible causes.

  1. ADB is not enabled on your device.

  2. You are already connected to the Android TV / Fire TV via ADB from another device. Only one device can be connected, so disconnect the other device, restart the Android TV / Fire TV (for good measure), and then restart Home Assistant.

  3. If you are using the Python ADB implementation:

    • This method often does not work for newer devices. Use the ADB server approach instead.

    • Your key is not pre-authenticated. Before using the adbkey in Home Assistant, you must connect to your device using the ADB binary and tell it to always allow connections from this computer. For more information, see the section ADB Authentication above.

    • Home Assistant does not have the appropriate permissions for the adbkey file and so it is not able to use it. Once you fix the permissions, the integration should work.

  4. Some Android TV devices (e.g., Philips TVs running Android TV) only accept the initial ADB connection request over their Wi-Fi interface. If you have the TV wired, you need to connect it to WiFi and try the initial connection again. Once the authentication has been granted via Wi-Fi, you can connect to the TV over the wired interface as well.

Services

media_player.select_source

For Fire TV devices, you can launch an app using the media_player.select_source command. Simply provide the app ID as the source. You can also stop an app by prefixing the app ID with a !. For example, you could define scripts to start and stop Netflix as follows:

start_netflix:
  sequence:
  - service: media_player.select_source
    data:
      entity_id: media_player.fire_tv_living_room
      source: 'com.netflix.ninja'

stop_netflix:
  sequence:
  - service: media_player.select_source
    data:
      entity_id: media_player.fire_tv_living_room
      source: '!com.netflix.ninja'

androidtv.adb_command

The service androidtv.adb_command allows you to send either keys or ADB shell commands to your Android TV / Fire TV device. If there is any output, it will be stored in the 'adb_response' attribute (i.e., state_attr('media_player.android_tv_living_room', 'adb_response') in a template) and logged at the INFO level.

Service data attribute Optional Description
entity_id no Name(s) of Android TV / Fire TV entities.
command no Either a key command or an ADB shell command.

In an action of your automation setup it could look like this:

action:
  service: androidtv.adb_command
  data:
    entity_id: media_player.androidtv_tv_living_room
    command: "HOME"

Available key commands include:

  • POWER
  • SLEEP
  • HOME
  • UP
  • DOWN
  • LEFT
  • RIGHT
  • CENTER
  • BACK
  • MENU

The full list of key commands can be found here.

You can also use the command GET_PROPERTIES to retrieve the properties used by Home Assistant to update the device's state. These will be stored in the media player's 'adb_response' attribute and logged at the INFO level, this information can be used to help improve state detection in the backend androidtv package.