Android TV Remote in Home Assistant
androidtv_remote
part of Home Assistant since 2023.5
Android TV Remote is an official Home Assistant integration for Media player and Remote. Talks to the device on your own network and is told about every change straight away.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Local, push – Talks to the device on your own network and is told about every change straight away.
- Setup
- in the user interface
- Kind
- Single device
- Quality scale
- Platinum – The highest level: fully typed, efficient and maintained to every rule of the project.
- Installations
- 112,823 (16.5 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Media player, Remote
- Provides
- Diagnostics, Media player, Remote
- Found automatically via
- Network discovery (Zeroconf)
- Maintained by
- @tronikos, @Drafteed
- Python packages
androidtvremote2==0.3.2
Setup
- Home Assistant can find this integration on its own: if it is suggested under Settings → Devices & services, confirm it there.
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for Android TV Remote.
- Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.
The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.
Blueprints that use this integration
- Automation Shield App Launcher for Harmony Remote
Known issues and fixes
2 open issues and 0 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Android TV Remote in the Home Assistant issue tracker.
Open
- open Reported problem #107649
- open Reported problem #179902
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 13, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.
Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration