Reported from a live install: with ADB enabled but unreachable and a paired,
healthy protocol transport, the media player went unavailable even though the
protocol still served power/app/volume.
The old rule was ``manager.connected or manager.awake is not None or not
manager.available`` — i.e. "a configured ADB manager that is down ⇒ the whole
entity is down" (t5-F2), which ignored transport B entirely. The ladder is now:
* protocol transport wired and not reported unreachable — usable;
* or ADB connected — usable;
* or fresh wake data (the poller has spoken) — usable;
* or a passive manager (no ADB configured at all) — usable, because nothing to
transport is not a broken transport.
Unavailable only when a CONFIGURED transport is actively down and no usable data
exists. One implementation, ``entity_available`` (media_player.py), is used by the
media player, the remote (whose ladder previously duplicated a weaker version of
this rule) and the diagnostics payload.
Diagnostics grew ``transport.entity_available`` plus ``adb.configured`` so a
support dump answers "why is my entity unavailable?" — the ladder inputs and its
verdict are now in the same place.
Pinned by tests: the exact user case (ADB configured+down, protocol up ⇒
available), all-down (⇒ unavailable), wake-data rescue, connected ADB without a
protocol, the passive manager, a configured-but-down transport with no data, the
remote following the same ladder, and the diagnostics verdict.
Verified: 310 passed / 2 skipped, 311 passed / 1 skipped (androidtvremote2),
16 passed in the HA drift suite, ruff clean.
Reported from a live install: the sensor showed ``ar.tvplayer.tv`` while the
media player showed "TiviMate" — the same foreground app, two identities.
The sensor's ``native_value`` returned ``manager.foreground_app`` (the raw
package push) or ``running_apps[0]["package"]`` as-is, while the media player
resolved names through apps map → cached manifest label → androidtv entity tier.
Both now call ONE function, ``resolve_app_name`` (media_player.py), so the two
entities cannot disagree again; the sensor keeps the raw package as its
``app_id`` attribute and ``app_name`` carries the shown name.
Per the contract:
* apps map wins, then the cached manifest label, then the androidtv entity's
``app_name``, then the package text itself;
* a bare or unknown package falls back to the package text, NOT None (it used to
be possible for the value to vanish while the app was plainly running);
* pinned by tests: map tier, label tier, entity tier, the ADB-recents source, the
unknown-package fallback, and sensor == media player for the same inputs.
Verified: 302 passed / 2 skipped, ruff clean.
Reported from a live install: the entity never rendered, and every state write
raised ``TypeError: 'method' object is not iterable``.
Root cause, from HA's own code (homeassistant/helpers/entity.py,
``__async_calculate_state``):
if extra_state_attributes := self.extra_state_attributes:
attr |= extra_state_attributes
``attr`` is a dict, so ``|=`` needs a mapping — and this was declared as a plain
method while the sensors' were properties. Reproduced against the pre-fix tree
with real HA: instantiating the entity and calling ``async_write_ha_state()``
prints ``REPRODUCED TypeError: 'method' object is not iterable``; with the fix
the same call writes the state and the extra attributes through.
The stub suites could never see it: their harness replaces
``async_write_ha_state``, so the method was simply called and returned a dict.
tests/test_ha_api_drift.py now drives HA's real state calculation for every
entity, and the drift sweep grew an entity-contract pass (next commit).
`homeassistant.components.media_player` has not exported `BrowseMediaSource`
for years: the class lives in `homeassistant.components.media_source.models`,
where it exists to build `media_source://<domain>` ids and is the only place a
`domain` parameter belongs (t30 G18's note was about THAT class). The local
import therefore raised ImportError, and with it every real browse failed —
while the suite stayed green because the harness stubbed a `BrowseMediaSource`
that real HA does not expose from there.
`async_browse_media` now builds the standard tree exactly as core's own
androidtv_remote/media_player.py does: `BrowseMedia` imported from
homeassistant.components.media_player at module scope, every node carrying an
explicit media_content_id/media_content_type (MediaType.APP/APPS),
`children_media_class=MediaClass.APP` on the directory, and no `domain`.
Verified against a real install: the old import raises ImportError, the old
`domain=` kwarg raises TypeError, and the new node constructs.
The harness is now faithful so this cannot hide again:
* `entity_stublib` exposes a `BrowseMedia` with the real keyword-only
signature, `as_dict()` and `calculate_children_class()`, plus `MediaType`,
and deliberately NOT `BrowseMediaSource` — so both the drifted import and the
drifted kwarg fail in-suite;
* the app-directory test asserts the standard shape (classes, explicit ids and
types, children_media_class, the serialised payload) instead of the removed
`domain` attribute;
* TestFaithfulHaStubs pins the harness contract on the AST (no production
module imports BrowseMediaSource) rather than on prose.
Verified: 284 passed, 2 skipped (D1 stage); ruff clean. Full gate re-run on the
completed branch: 289 passed / 2 skipped and 290 passed / 1 skipped.
So ha-media-zone's card can interpolate the playhead smoothly between
server polls instead of snapping once every 10-30s.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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