Home Assistant Info

I’ve got 2 Fire TV sticks that I can control via Home Assistant, both of which require authentication for ADB connections. Here’s how I got them setup and integrated into Home Assistant.

1. Download platform-tools and connect to the first Fire TV stick from my laptop, following the instructions in this guide: Connecting to Fire TV Through adb.

   Important! 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.

2. Connect to the second Fire TV device, following the same steps as before. It should utilize the same ADB key.

3. Copy the adbkey and adbkey.pub files from my computer (in the folder ~/.android) to my Home Assistant configuration folder.

4. Copy firetv.py to the custom_components/media_player/ folder in my Home Assistant configuration directory.

5. Add the Fire TV sticks to my Home Assistant configuration as follows:

   media_player:
   - platform: firetv
     name: Fire TV 1
     host: 192.168.0.111
     adbkey: "/config/android/adbkey"
   
   - platform: firetv
     name: Fire TV 2
     host: 192.168.0.222
     adbkey: "/config/android/adbkey"
   
   # if your Fire TV doesn't require authentication, you would set it up like this
   - platform: firetv
     name: Fire TV 3
     host: 192.168.0.123
   

That’s it! No addons to worry about, and no need for automations to restart the addon when it crashes.