Open apps on android tv from Logitech Harmony

by Cbuckles17

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone has a solution to this. Currently I have my harmony send down, down, right, click type commands to my Bravia android tv. I'd really like to get away from this and find a way to just open an app directly (rather than scroll).

Has anyone achieved this? I wish android tv worked like rokus do where they have channels on the harmony :(

Thanks

neruz

I've been trying to do the same, unfortunately there are no solutions yet. However, I've recently created an emulated Roku API for Home Assistant, so I can control it from Harmony.

I have some plans on doing the same for Android.

Don't know when it will be ready though. My primary focus is on the home assistant integration via an android companion app, not really planning on controlling the android tv via harmony directly, but implementing the emulated roku on android isn't too much extra work so it will be done eventually.

joazito
allanfarrell

The holy grail would be having a touch icon for each app, for the touchscreen harmony remotes (like the channels icons for tv activity).

One tap wherever you are in the OS and the app launches.