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Configure Fire TV with Home Assistant

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Summary Steps

  1. Download Apps to Fire TV
  2. Configure Homeassistant Components
  3. Configure Homeassistant UI

Detailed Steps

Setup Fire TV

  • Turn on ADB Debugging
  • Login to your amazon account to your FireTV device. Download Notifications for Fire TV
  • Configure Homeassistant Components

Configure Homeassistant Components

notify:
  - platform: nfandroidtv
    name: alert_firetv
    host: !secret FireTV_IP
    transparency: 25%
  • Images can be posted – For example for internet
{
  "message":"Messagetext",
  "title":"My Notification",
  "data":{
    "file":{
      "url":"http://[url to image file]",
      "username":"optional user, if necessary",
      "password":"optional password, if necessary",
      "auth":"digest"
    }
  }
}

  • or from internal path validated against the whitelist_external_dirs in the configuration.yaml
{
  "message":"Messagetext",
  "title":"My Notification",
  "data":{
    "file":{
      "path":"/path/to/file.ext"
    }
  }
}
  • Make Homeassistant script to send notification
'1567888569045':
  alias: FireTV Nofify
  sequence:
    - service: notify.alert_firetv
      data:
        message: 'NOTIFICATION!! This is a test message!'
  • Add entity to lovelace to run the script

References

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