NVIDIA Shield

Home Assistant integration for the NVIDIA Shield TV — ADB media session tracking for now-playing state from any app, plus Google remote-protocol commands, Jellyfin rich metadata, and power monitoring.

This is a Shield-only fork of ltomes/ha-nvidia-shield (early 0.1.x), rebuilt around a different architecture: one integration, one device, ADB as the state source, and no dependency on separate androidtv / androidtv_remote integrations.

Status: early fork, actively rebuilt. Releases are date-based (v2026.10.08). Expect rough edges until the MVP phases land. The build-out plan is in docs/MVP_PLAN.md; device research is in docs/RESEARCH_SHIELD.md.

What we're building (the fork's goals)

The fork exists to make a single integration own the Shield end-to-end:

1. Event-driven ADB media session tracking as the primary playback state source — dumpsys media_session over a persistent connection, not screen capture, not 10-second polling.
2. Fallback state for apps without media sessions — e.g. TiviMate publishes none at all; foreground-app detection (mResumedActivity) + last-known-state
   • the "audio playback" hint from the same session dump close that gap.
3. All-in-one device — absorb the Google remote protocol (androidtvremote2): a remote entity alongside the media player, play_media with media_content_type: channel for TiviMate channel-by-number, absolute volume, focused-app push events. ADB stays the playback-state source; ADB pairing stays intact.
4. Retire the surrounding glue — the mediasession2mqtt bridge, universal media player templates, and external remote entity reading all become native integration behavior.

Phases 0–4 with files, risks, and definitions of done live in docs/MVP_PLAN.md.

Current features (inherited from upstream 0.1.x)

• ADB Media Session — now-playing from any app that publishes a session (Spotify, Netflix, Plex, Wholphin, …)
• Jellyfin rich metadata — title, series/episode, position, stream details (resolution, codec, HDR, audio format) via the HA Jellyfin integration's cache
• Power monitoring — smart plug for reliable on/off with auto-discovered sibling sensors (watts, voltage, current)
• Intent tracking — commands reflect in HA state immediately, self-heal against actual device state
• Privacy mode — show only app name without media details for non-Jellyfin apps
• Media DAG attributes — media_dag_* attributes for media-zone style orchestration

Changes inherited from upstream still apply in 0.1.x code: polling is timer-based, the ADB connection lives inside the media player entity, and fallback app state arrives in Phase 3.

Releases

• Date-based versioning: vYYYY.MM.DD (e.g. v2026.10.08).
• Pushes to master on Gitea run the release workflow (.github/workflows/release.yml):
  • A plain push publishes the current day's release (same-day pushes are deduped).
  • Bumping version in custom_components/nvidia_shield/manifest.json forces that specific version's release before the date fallback kicks in.
• Releases land on Gitea (tag + nvidia_shield.zip asset), and are optionally mirrored to a public GitHub repo for HACS.

Installation

HACS (custom repository — GitHub mirror)

HACS only works with public GitHub repositories, so releases are mirrored from Gitea to a public GitHub repo. Add the mirror as a custom repository:

1. In HACS, open the overflow menu (⋮) → Custom repositories.
2. Paste https://github.com/notexpectedyet/ha-nvidia-shield, pick type Integration, click Add.
3. Find NVIDIA Shield in the HACS list and click Download.
4. Restart Home Assistant.

Manual

Copy custom_components/nvidia_shield to your HA config/custom_components/ directory, restart, then add the integration from Settings → Devices & Services.

Configuration

1. Settings > Devices & Services > Add Integration > "NVIDIA Shield"
2. Select the Android TV Remote entity for your Shield
3. Enable ADB if you want now-playing from all apps
4. If ADB is enabled, the next step will pair — approve the prompt on the Shield
5. Optionally configure Jellyfin, receiver, power switch

ADB Pairing

ADB is paired during setup via a dedicated config flow step. If you need to re-pair later (e.g. after factory reset), use the "Pair ADB" button on the device page in HA.

Requirements: Settings > Developer options > Network debugging enabled on the Shield.

Options

• Jellyfin Media Player — auto-detected or manually selected
• Receiver + Input — for media-zone coordination
• Power Switch — smart plug entity
• ADB Host/Port — override auto-detection if needed

Entities

Entity	Type	Description
Media Player	media_player	Main entity with playback controls and metadata
Current App	sensor	Currently running app
Now Playing	sensor	Formatted now-playing string
Pair ADB	button	Initiate or re-pair ADB connection

Development

• Repository: Gitea — git.notexpectedyet.com/notexpectedyet/ha-nvidia-shield, branch master
• CI/CD: Gitea Actions; every push to master releases (see .github/workflows/release.yml). The optional hacs-github-mirror job needs GH_MIRROR_TOKEN + GH_MIRROR_REPO secrets.
• Shared ADB helpers are vendored at custom_components/nvidia_shield/ha_adb_common/ (trimmed in this fork); dev extras in pyproject.toml (uv sync --extra dev).

License

MIT