As many of you probably know, Google does not allow you to change the buttons of their chromecast remote. We don’t use Netflix at all, but we use Jellyfin. I just though of it and tested it, but Home assistant allows you to track the chromecast and functionality replace one app with another. Making the button now open the jellyfin app
alias: Replace google chromecast nexflix with whoflix
description: >-
Google does not allow you to re-map the netflix button, but we can launch
jellyfin when its trying to launch netflix. And thus effectivly replacing the
button
triggers:
- trigger: state
entity_id:
- remote.woonkamer_tv
attribute: current_activity
to:
- com.netflix.ninja
conditions: []
actions:
- action: media_player.play_media
metadata: {}
target:
entity_id: media_player.woonkamer_tv
data:
media:
media_content_id: org.jellyfin.androidtv
media_content_type: app
mode: single
I literally can’t notice (I did wire everything)
That’s great to hear. I would have thought it would take some seconds to register.
Yhea me too, or some double launch stuff. But it just works instantly
I have this set up to launch SmartTube instead of YouTube. Its working but there is a 1sec delay during which yhe YouTube screen flashes up. Also theres a looping issue if you use the back button to get out of SmartTube.
However, nice to have a way to remap the buttons without installing an additional app.
Good to hear you got it to work. Our chroma cast is wired in, so that might also hide the delay better maybe?
If you use the back button and the app stays, check in home assistant what the entity is saying. For me it ended up being two different app names
Yeah maybe so. I’ll have a look at the entity names bit I think the loop.is being caused by something in my code. Will report back!