The media session parser only understood states 2 (paused) and 3
(playing), so a session refilling its buffer (Android state 6, which the
Shield's own ExoPlayer/MediaSession sessions report exactly like stock
Android) read as "idle" or vanished into the foreground tier.
MediaSessionInfo gains an independent `buffering` flag (playing/paused/
buffering are now three flags off one integer), the session sort puts
buffering right behind playing — it is mid-playback, so it outranks a
paused session when the ladder picks one — and the running-apps
enrichment names a buffering live/last-known session "buffering" instead
of falling into "idle".
The MediaPlayerState stub gains BUFFERING and STANDBY so an in-suite
reference to a member real HA does not have fails here (real HA 2026.10
exposes off/on/idle/playing/paused/standby/buffering).
Home Assistant custom integration for NVIDIA Shield TV that composes
the Android TV Remote, Jellyfin, smart plug, and receiver entities
into a single unified media player with ADB-based now-playing from
any app. Part of the Media Zone ecosystem.
Entities:
- media_player: power (with smart plug fallback), transport, input,
volume routed to receiver, rich stream info overlay when Jellyfin
is active
- sensor: DAG attributes and stream info
- button: Pair ADB
Config:
- Two-step flow: basic setup + optional ADB pairing on the Shield
- Configurable ADB port (default 5555)
- Pick an existing Jellyfin media_player entity — stream info is read
from the HA Jellyfin integration's own DataUpdateCoordinator, so
no server URL / API key / extra config needed here
- Privacy mode (adb_store_app_info=False) suppresses non-Jellyfin
media details, showing only the app name
Ecosystem:
- Exposes media_dag_* attributes for ha-media-zone orchestration
- Exposes media_dag_running_apps and async_bring_to_foreground for
the Media Zone card's app switcher
Shared ADB code lives in ltomes/ha-adb-common and is vendored at
custom_components/nvidia_shield/ha_adb_common/ for HACS installs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
James Mackay