Nvidia shield (androidtv) play/paused status problem

@prankousky wrote:

Hi everybody,

I recently got an nvidia shield and now want to integrate it into Home Assistant. I do have an entity media_player.nvidia_shield. When I play a video in the youtube app, it will successfully change the state to playing, and when I pause it to paused (there is even an idle state when it is running but not playing anything).

However, when I play anything via plex app, it will remain its last status from outside plex no matter what I do. When I start playback, or when I pause/resume playback, the state will not change. All or most other apps (haven’t tried all yet but seems like it) work fine, by that I mean the update the status to its actual value - only the plex app does not.

We mainly use plex for media playback, and I want an automation like “when plex changes from playing to paused, turn on lights”; I do have this automation, and it does work for my fire tv (but onn the fire tv I use plex inside the kodi player, which creates an additional entity media_player.plex_on_kodi_localhost(or similar; I cannot see the entity at the moment)).

While I can work with that additional entity on the fire tv, I would prefer not to run plex inside of kodi on my shield but rather use the stand alone plex app for android tv.

Have any of you encountered this problem and know how to fix it? I could work around it by installing kodi, then the kodi plex app, on my shield, but if this is not necessary, I’d prefer not to.

This has been semi-buggy on the fire tv as well, but might be due to my automation; when I play something in plex (in kodi) there upon starting the device, it works fine; but once I had played something outside plex (youtube, for example), it will sometimes update the status correctly, and sometimes not. Weird!

Thanks for your ideas

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