Great, I suspect some people could take it that way, we have to consider different cultures have different ways of expressing and receiving feedback and it takes longer to post in a sensitive way when we all lead busy lives… We have a local radio personality who likes to say and I’ll passphrase “(ig) Noble prizes are won, not on work done, but because the person asked a question. The question is what wins awards”. He went on to win an award for finding out why belly button fluff is mostly blue because he made an observation, and then asked the questions WHY? End of humour, but if you want to know the reason you can google it as its a true story…
Not bizarre at all and by asking a question you may find what is the road block and trigger its removal. I am not an expert and do not know all, I do not know if 1 such person exists. Someone does the research and learns, this could be you as you do not need to code to be able to read if an API allows something to happen. You can summarize and provide links and speed up development by doing so.
I try to post helpful info or links in case other people find the post in the future, or its about having a way that works, whilst a better way is developed or suggested. Thanks for your posting in this area as it sounds like you know way more about the challenges then I do.
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The makers of the phones do not want the owners getting annoyed (they want future sales of the next phone) with pop up messages if someone hacks the API or creates apps that end up causing the owner an issue, they wants long battery life, so they require certain hurdles if a local way was/is possible. I suspect it would have to be implemented into an app, so the best place to ask and look is what API documentation the openHAB app for your platform is using. It will then give details on what it can do and what the limitations are.
In case you had not seen it, there is now a way to send local messages, images and videos to your Android TV, not what your after, but you may be interested in it. You will also see that the TV blocks this kind of thing happening unless you unlock the features and give the apps permission. The same concept that they want people to not get annoyed and to buy the next TV, so they have restricted certain features to not be so simple as we may like them to be.