The user's live run could not select his Shield for
nvidia_shield.adb_command, so he ran his diagnostics through the deprecated
androidtv integration instead. Measured against the installed HA (2026.10.1),
the cause is a contract, not a bug in the handler:
* ServiceRegistry.async_register has NO target parameter, so a target cannot be
declared at registration;
* the frontend renders the target picker from the service DESCRIPTION, which
HA builds from services.yaml or from the runtime async_set_service_schema —
and the runtime description WINS.
So async_setup now registers with supports_response=OPTIONAL and publishes
ADB_COMMAND_SERVICE_DESCRIPTION (target: {entity: [{domain: media_player}]},
fields, prose mirrored in strings.json/translations/en.json and pinned against
both by a test). No services.yaml is needed, and none is added.
The target resolution is strict, because the failure mode of guessing is a raw
shell command on the wrong device: exactly one PARTICIPANT, told apart as
no_target (nothing selected), unsupported_target (not a participant / option
off / another integration's entity) and ambiguous_target (two selected — sent
to neither). Accepts what HA actually sends: entity_id as text or as the LIST a
picked target produces, and device_id (an automation targeting the DEVICE),
expanded only through this integration's own registry entries and only to media
players. The output now comes back in the response under adb_response — the key
the user's captures read — while an unreachable Shield stays adb_unavailable,
an error rather than an empty response, and a call that does not ask for a
response is unchanged.
Evidence: 12 real-HA tests (new tests/test_adb_command_real_ha.py) drive the
real service registry, the real get_services websocket payload (the exact JSON
bytes the browser parses: target present, response optional, both fields) and
real async_call for every shape above. t14's CI gate globs tests/test_*real_ha.py
so a new real-HA file cannot skip silently; the skip/empty-collection guards stay
and were executed. The real-HA probe also caught async_entries_for_device being
a MODULE-LEVEL helper (not a registry method) that the stub had hidden, so the
drift gate's owner map now covers async_register, async_set_service_schema and
async_entries_for_device, with the call-argument floor raised 44 -> 52.
Verify: suites 681/4 and 682/3; real-HA 38 + the new file 12 (50 with the glob);
ruff clean; drift exit 0 (54 call arguments).
The user asked for "an image entity of the device screen capture? Can that be
added". It is added as `image.<entry>_screen_capture`, and the three boundaries
are the feature:
- it NEVER drives state — the state is the capture timestamp, and the capture
path reads the ADB poller and nothing else (pinned by a manager that raises on
any other attribute, and by a real-HA run whose recorded state is the
timestamp with no bytes anywhere in the attributes);
- it is OPT-IN and OFF by default (`screen_capture_enabled`, Main setup row) —
with the option absent `async_setup_entry` adds no entity at all;
- it NEVER polls — HA's own `should_poll = False` for image entities is kept, so
only an image fetch or `homeassistant.update_entity` captures; concurrent
fetches share one shell and a capture is reused for 5 s.
BINARY-SAFE CAPTURE: `screencap -p | base64` over the existing shell, decoded
locally with `base64.b64decode` and gated on the PNG signature AND the IHDR
chunk. `AdbDevice.shell()` returns `str`, so raw PNG bytes cannot travel through
it; the alternative (a device temp file + the library's file-read path) needs the
raw AdbDevice and writes to the Shield's shared storage, where a crash between
write and delete leaves a screenshot behind. The base64 route leaves no
device-side artifact — nothing to clean up — at the cost of ~33% more bytes on
the wire.
HONEST FAILURES: ADB off / ADB down / a capture that returned no PNG / a
transport that raised all make the entity UNAVAILABLE with `capture_status`
(`adb_disabled` / `adb_disconnected` / `capture_failed`) — never a blank or
zero-byte image. `image_last_updated` moves only on success.
Tests: 25 new cases (a real 2x1 PNG fixture on the wire — bytes, never a str;
every non-PNG answer rejected; disconnected/failed/recovery paths; capture reuse,
coalescing and the expiry window; opt-in default OFF and on) plus 4 config-flow
cases (schema default False, off stays off, on is stored, and it can be turned
back off). The stub harness gains the image platform and `util.dt` faces, the
real-HA entity matrix gains this class, and the drift sweep's coverage test
demanded exactly that. README documents the cost, the opt-in and the boundary.
ENTRY_VERSION = 3, declared once in const.py and reused as the flow's VERSION so
the stored shape and the migration cannot drift.
v2 → v3 mirrors the two shape changes:
* the duplicated address fields collapse into CONF_HOST — the protocol host
wins, else the ADB host (both name the same Shield), reading options first and
data second so a hand-written seed is covered too;
* the androidtv-entity key is dropped from data AND options with a logged note
naming the dropped entity (the old value would only mislead now that nothing
reads it).
A v1 entry still travels the whole way in one call (the v1→v2 protocol defaults
are applied, then the v3 collapse). Downgrades (version > 3) are rejected so HA
can offer a rollback, and the current version is a no-op.
Existing entries carrying the entity key keep working until the migration runs:
nothing reads it anymore (the c1 commit), which is exactly why the migration can
be a plain removal.
Test note: my first version of the version-parity pin called a bare
entity_stublib.install() and leaked the shallow stub set into the entity-module
loader of later tests (STATE_PAUSED/entity_available import failures). It now
uses the file's scoped harness, like every other test there.
Verified: 316 passed / 2 skipped, 317 / 1 with androidtvremote2, ruff clean,
drift engine exit 0 on HEAD (36 call arguments — one more awaited/checked call).
The two address fields were the same Shield spelled twice, and every bug in the
zeroconf/IP-change path came from keeping them in sync. One field now:
* const.CONF_HOST replaces CONF_ADB_HOST / CONF_PROTOCOL_HOST in the setup form,
the options page, the pairing forms, the reconfigure/reauth seeding and the
description copy. ADB port 5555 stays the only port field;
* helpers.entry_host(entry) is the single resolver (options first, then data);
resolve_adb_config and the protocol settings both go through it, so both
transports read the same value at call time (the t32 F1 factory re-read keeps
working: the NEXT built poller sees the new address);
* helpers.seed_host / seed_adb_enabled own the YAML seed's shape rule. A block
may use `host` or the legacy protocol_host/adb_host keys — t41 keeps the old
spelling working — and t32 F4's outcome is unchanged: a protocol-only block
leaves ADB off, an address (or an explicit adb_enabled) turns it on;
* the zeroconf IP-change path collapses the t21-F2 per-host dance into one rule:
the discovery address IS the entry's address, so the entry is updated when it
differs and left alone when it matches. The blank-self-heal and
deliberately-different-ADB-host cases are gone with the duplication — a
second address field cannot express them anymore, and the tests now pin that
(previously "an explicit override is never clobbered");
* the options page exposes the protocol toggle it never had (the page could turn
ADB off but not the protocol);
* button.py (granted to this task) reads the entry's own address instead of
another integration's entity.
The v3 entry migration that maps existing adb_host/protocol_host onto CONF_HOST
and drops the androidtv key lands in the next commit; HA runs migrations before
setup, so an existing entry is never read with the old shape.
Verified: 311 passed / 2 skipped, 312 / 1 with androidtvremote2, ruff clean,
drift engine exit 0 on HEAD. The UI-copy contract tests (every rendered field
has a label in strings.json AND translations/en.json, key trees identical, host
errors name the field) drove the string edits.
The user ruling: this integration REPLACES both old integrations, so nothing may
depend on an androidtv/androidtv_remote entity anymore.
Removed:
* the setup-form field + its entity selector (CONF_ANDROIDTV_ENTITY is no longer
offered, only read by the migration that drops it);
* the entity-derived unique_id derivation (_unique_id_from_atv_device, t29 G2)
and, with it, every registry lookup for another integration's devices — the
user step now sets NO unique_id at all; the protocol MAC learned during
pairing is the identity;
* the Jellyfin auto-detect's second tier (the atv entity's friendly_name) — it
now uses the entry name the user typed or the device name from discovery;
* the app-name and app-id tiers (media_player.app_name/app_id + the shared
resolve_app_name chain, the Current App sensor, the sensor's state-change
listener and its `_androidtv_state` helper) — the manager's store is the only
source;
* the "transitional external entity" command tier in every path: `_cmd` and the
pan-media_player service call are gone, and so is the fallback in _media_cmd,
_remote_key_cmd, the §7 channel-digit sequence and the intent self-heal retry
(an intent no transport served now surrenders to the truth instead of
delegating);
* the entity-derived power signal (`_on_source_change`'s "device off clears the
intent" check no longer watches another integration's entity; the power
LADDER — protocol is_on → ADB wake → power switch — is unchanged).
turn_on/turn_off are native now: they send the protocol POWER key and, like the
remote entity, send nothing when the known state already matches (no superfluous
toggle). An ADB-only entry (protocol skipped) has no power write path — the
manager owns the socket and exposes no device-keyevent, which is what the old
delegation used to cover.
helpers.discover_adb_host — the one helper that derived a host from another
integration's config entry — is deleted; button.py (granted to this task) reads
the entry's own address fields instead of the entity, so the Pair ADB button
keeps working.
Present-day entries that still carry the key are unaffected (nothing reads it);
the v3 migration that drops it lands with the host unification.
Verified: 309 passed / 2 skipped, 310 / 1 with androidtvremote2, ruff clean,
drift engine exit 0 on HEAD (13 modules, 58 imports, 35 call arguments, 6
awaited HA calls) and 16 passed in the real-HA drift suite. The stub harness's
legacy service recorder became a watchdog: any HA service call from the media
player now fails the routing tests instead of being the expected outcome.
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