Sharing a working driver to control 100% an Amazon FireTV Stick directly from Hubitat, without any other hardware.
Hope is useful for more users!
Cheers.
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Interesting 
What can this be used for. Could it be possible to open a specific app - for instance an IPTV app for watching the football (asking for a friend 
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Edit: I had a peek at the code. It looks as though I should be able to add an app in there to the existing list 
Hi @johnwill1
Right now it has the basic Apps (netflix, amazon, disney +, hbo, youtube, apple tv) Ready to launch.
You can find out the codes for the others, and of course add to the list!
Hope it helps!
Should this work on a FireTV stick 4K? I tried it and it showed a 'connected' status, but none of the commands worked and I never got a pop-up for authorization on the FireTV.
Did you enable de Developer Mode and allowed Unknown apps in the Fire TV settings?
(instructions here: How to find/show/unhide/reveal Developer Options on an Amazon Fire TV Stick, Fire TV Cube, or Fire TV Smart TV | AFTVnews )
This driver will probably stop working once Amazon launches their devices with the New OS , but probably another API or method will come out at that time.
Until now, all devices with Android should work as they use ADB for comm.
Yes, I was able to connect and control my FireTV from Home Assistant, but can't get this to work from either of my hubs (a C7 and a C8-Pro).
It’s worked for me on my C8 Pro. I made sure ADB debugging was turned on. It didn’t work initially but then I clicked the ‘Generate new key’ command and tried a command again at which point I got the permission pop up on screen (not sure if that’s relevant or not)
Thanks
I've had a message around with the code:
- I've found the app intent of my IPTV player app and added that and it's working great
- I've gone through and translated the comments and logging to English
I've noticed that the states don't seem to update for 'Current App' (unknown) and 'Switch' (off) . If I click the 'Get Current app' there are no errors:
That's great!
I will try and work on the states with the CurrentApp
Any other ideas let me know!
I'm having a play with ChatGPT currently which is suggesting two changes. I'll post if successful (I'm clueless with code so rely on AI)
Edit: I have current activity updating from the command (need to test it when switching between activities) I need to amend it to show a friendly name, rather than ‘com.someapp’.
Of course my ChatGPT fixes might cause other bugs…
New version available, with current app as an attribute
- Added functions and defs to use the same commands that Samsung Remote uses (arrowUp, arrowLeft, etc)
- Added Function "appOpenByName", to receive the string(name of App, ex: Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube)
- English logs
- Added CurrentApp attribute parse with poll every 30 seconds (configure in preferences)
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Nice work. Sounds like some XDA level stuff :o
I control my TV on/off from the Firestick remote. Do you know if that capability is available?
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@hhorigian,
Nice job, good to see that Android TV drivers with ADB support coming to Hubitat (I will soon retire another app(s) from Home Assistant - Android Debug Bridge / Android TV Remote!).
I have tested on a Google TV Streamer (Android) and the basic functions work.
Not sure if you are also getting the intermittent prompts to re-authorise allow USB debugging (even after selecting always allow) ?
As this is working on Android TV - probably best to change title to reflect this 
Showing my age 
I thought ADB was the “Apple Desktop Bus” 
Hi @iEnam
Didn't have other Android device to test, good to know.
I did an update for the repeated authorizations.
Check hope it solves
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No, that TV control is stored locally in your FireTV remote control as it probably does it via IR/Bluetooth.
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