GoogleTV: User Forced PIN Process - but no pin popup

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Podman openhab:latest (4.3.3)

Trying to get my Google TV 4K to work with the AndroidTV binding but I am unable to get a pin to pop up on the device.

Bit of log after disabling and re-enabling the thing:

2025-03-01 23:52:56.695 [INFO ] [ab.event.ThingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - Thing 'androidtv:googletv:DCE55BD6E827' changed from OFFLINE: GoogleTV: PIN Process Incomplete to UNINITIALIZED
2025-03-01 23:53:01.698 [WARN ] [core.thing.internal.ThingManagerImpl] - Disposing handler for thing 'androidtv:googletv:DCE55BD6E827' takes more than 5000ms.
2025-03-01 23:53:01.699 [INFO ] [ab.event.ThingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - Thing 'androidtv:googletv:DCE55BD6E827' changed from UNINITIALIZED to UNINITIALIZED (DISABLED)
2025-03-01 23:53:01.699 [INFO ] [ab.event.ThingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - Thing 'androidtv:googletv:DCE55BD6E827' changed from UNINITIALIZED (DISABLED) to UNINITIALIZED
2025-03-01 23:53:06.700 [WARN ] [core.thing.internal.ThingManagerImpl] - Disposing handler for thing 'androidtv:googletv:DCE55BD6E827' takes more than 5000ms.


2025-03-01 23:53:44.655 [INFO ] [ab.event.ThingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - Thing 'androidtv:googletv:DCE55BD6E827' changed from UNINITIALIZED to UNINITIALIZED (DISABLED)
2025-03-01 23:53:53.378 [INFO ] [ab.event.ThingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - Thing 'androidtv:googletv:DCE55BD6E827' changed from UNINITIALIZED (DISABLED) to INITIALIZING
2025-03-01 23:53:53.379 [INFO ] [ab.event.ThingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - Thing 'androidtv:googletv:DCE55BD6E827' changed from INITIALIZING to OFFLINE: Protocols Starting
2025-03-01 23:54:06.165 [INFO ] [ab.event.ThingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - Thing 'androidtv:googletv:DCE55BD6E827' changed from OFFLINE: Protocols Starting to OFFLINE: GoogleTV: User Forced PIN Process

Seems to be trying but nothing happens. Both the device and the remote have the latest firmware.

Suggestions?

Mvh.

Torkil

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Did you get this working?

Have a similar problem. The thing in OH shows “GoogleTV: user forced PIN process” but on the device screen no PIN appears. The 2 mentioned apps "GoogleTV2 and “AndroidTV Service” are already installed on my devices.

The devices are Telekom “Magenta TV One” boxes and have been auto-discovered by the binding.

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Use openhab-cli for getting and submitting the PIN, as described in the documentation of the binding:

openhab> openhab:androidtv androidtv:googletv:theater pincode REQUEST

openhab> openhab:androidtv androidtv:googletv:theater pincode abc123

Worked fine for me a few weeks ago.

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Did it like you but no success so far. But am a Windows11 user and use the Karaf console. Here is the log which i get if switching to TRACE.

2026-05-05 19:27:02.546 [TRACE] [al.console.AndroidTVCommandExtension] - Received CLI Command: androidtv:googletv:10763627BABA pincode |||REQUEST|||
2026-05-05 19:27:02.546 [DEBUG] [al.console.AndroidTVCommandExtension] - Sending CLI Command to Handler: androidtv:googletv:10763627BABA:pincode |||REQUEST|||
2026-05-05 19:27:02.546 [TRACE] [.androidtv.internal.AndroidTVHandler] - 10763627BABA - Command received at handler: pincode REQUEST
2026-05-05 19:27:02.546 [DEBUG] [l.googletv.GoogleTVConnectionManager] - 10763627BABA - Command received: pincode
2026-05-05 19:27:02.546 [DEBUG] [l.googletv.GoogleTVConnectionManager] - 10763627BABA - Command received: pincode
2026-05-05 19:27:03.502 [DEBUG] [l.googletv.GoogleTVConnectionManager] - 2051F5360A4F - Device Health - Online: true - Logged In: false - Mode: NORMAL
2026-05-05 19:27:07.640 [DEBUG] [l.googletv.GoogleTVConnectionManager] - 10763627BABA - Device Health - Online: false - Logged In: false - Mode: NORMAL
2026-05-05 19:27:08.503 [DEBUG] [l.googletv.GoogleTVConnectionManager] - 2051F5360A4F - Device Health - Online: true - Logged In: false - Mode: NORMAL
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Okay, hm. My TV is a “native” Google TV. Maybe the Magenta TV has some restrictions for remote access?

But, just to make sure, these two apps are installed with the newest version from Play Store?

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Thanks for these hints. Please see also my latest log.

It seems to have to do with the JAVA keystore file “cacerts”. Am not sure if i defined this right because i am a Windows11 user. Entered the following path within the thing configuration: C:\Program Files\Zulu\zulu-21\lib\security\cacerts. Verified my password for opening of this file using the portecle-tool.

2026-05-06 10:35:17.487 [DEBUG] [l.googletv.GoogleTVConnectionManager] - 10763627BABA - User Forced PIN Process
2026-05-06 10:35:17.487 [DEBUG] [l.googletv.GoogleTVConnectionManager] - 10763627BABA - Disconnecting GoogleTV
2026-05-06 10:35:17.487 [DEBUG] [l.googletv.GoogleTVConnectionManager] - 10763627BABA - startChildConnectionManager parent config: 6466 NORMAL false
2026-05-06 10:35:17.487 [DEBUG] [l.googletv.GoogleTVConnectionManager] - 10763627BABA - startChildConnectionManager child config: 6467 PIN false
2026-05-06 10:35:17.489 [DEBUG] [l.googletv.GoogleTVConnectionManager] - General exception
java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "java.security.Key.getEncoded()" because the return value of "java.security.KeyStore.getKey(String, char[])" is null
	at org.openhab.binding.androidtv.internal.utils.AndroidTVPKI.loadFromKeyStore(AndroidTVPKI.java:249)
	at org.openhab.binding.androidtv.internal.protocol.googletv.GoogleTVConnectionManager.initialize(GoogleTVConnectionManager.java:485)
	at org.openhab.binding.androidtv.internal.protocol.googletv.GoogleTVConnectionManager.<init>(GoogleTVConnectionManager.java:182)
	at org.openhab.binding.androidtv.internal.protocol.googletv.GoogleTVConnectionManager.startChildConnectionManager(GoogleTVConnectionManager.java:402)
	at org.openhab.binding.androidtv.internal.protocol.googletv.GoogleTVConnectionManager.handleCommand(GoogleTVConnectionManager.java:1275)
	at org.openhab.binding.androidtv.internal.AndroidTVHandler.handleCommand(AndroidTVHandler.java:354)
	at org.openhab.binding.androidtv.internal.console.AndroidTVCommandExtension.execute(AndroidTVCommandExtension.java:87)
	at org.openhab.core.io.console.ConsoleInterpreter.execute(ConsoleInterpreter.java:86)
	at org.openhab.core.io.console.karaf.internal.CommandWrapper.execute(CommandWrapper.java:79)
	at org.apache.karaf.shell.impl.console.osgi.secured.SecuredCommand.execute(SecuredCommand.java:68)
	at org.apache.karaf.shell.impl.console.osgi.secured.SecuredCommand.execute(SecuredCommand.java:86)
	at org.apache.felix.gogo.runtime.Closure.executeCmd(Closure.java:599)
	at org.apache.felix.gogo.runtime.Closure.executeStatement(Closure.java:526)
	at org.apache.felix.gogo.runtime.Closure.execute(Closure.java:415)
	at org.apache.felix.gogo.runtime.Pipe.doCall(Pipe.java:416)
	at org.apache.felix.gogo.runtime.Pipe.call(Pipe.java:229)
	at org.apache.felix.gogo.runtime.Pipe.call(Pipe.java:59)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:317)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1144)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:642)
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1583)
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Got it done now. The trick was simple: used filename “cacerts” only instead of the full path. Connected two Magenta TV One boxes to openHAB now.