OpenHAB on Amazon Fire TV

[fredl]

Continuing the discussion from Habdroid on Amazone Fire TV:

I have the same problem. I installed Openhab on my fireTV stick. But navigation on the Basic UI does not work. Can anybody help ?

[Bruce_Osborne]

@fredl

I installed Openhab on my fireTV stick

The FireTV stick cannot run Java, if I recall correctly so you could not successfully install OPenHAB on that device…
Your link indicates you’re using the Habdroid app rather than the official Android app. I do not know where the support forum is for Habdroid.
You must have installed Habdroid on your Fire TV Stick, not OpenHAB.

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

Habdroid was the former name of the official Android App. I am unaware whether the official app supports Fire TV or Google TV. I suspect the answer is no.

[vzorglub (Vincent Regaud)]

Habdroid is/was just another name for the android app.

Have you tried the Beta version of the app??

There also maybe old apk versions that may work with your device

[Bruce_Osborne]

@vzorglub

Habdroid is/was just another name for the android app.

Sorry, I had not heard of that before.

[fredl]

Ich have installed v2.10.3 of the Openhab App for Android.
Can anybody help me with my Problem ?

Cannot navigate through the Basic UI

Thanks

[mueller-ma]

@fredl

But navigation on the Basic UI does not work.

I guess you mean navigation on your Sitemaps doesn’t work. Basic UI is the web ui that displays your sitemaps in the browser

@Bruce_Osborne

The FireTV stick cannot run Java

Yes, it can. Fire OS is a custom build of Android and capable of running Android apps.

@rlkoshak

Habdroid was the former name of the official Android App.

That’s correct. It has been changed over two years ago: change habdroid to openhab app by mueller-ma · Pull Request #294 · openhab/openhab-android · GitHub

@fredl

Can anybody help ?

Someone has to adapt the app for Android TV, see Android TV support · Issue #336 · openhab/openhab-android · GitHub
I guess there’s no simple solution for you. How did you install the app? Sideload the apk?

[Bruce_Osborne]

@mueller-ma

Yes, it can. Fire OS is a custom build of Android and capable of running Android apps.

Running Android apps, not OpenHAB itself as is stated in the thread title.

[mueller-ma]

Did you install the openHAB server on your Fire TV stick?

[Bruce_Osborne]

@mueller-ma

openHAB server on your Fire TV stick?

The OP claims they tried.

[fredl]

“I guess you mean navigation on your Sitemaps doesn’t work. Basic UI is the web ui that displays your sitemaps in the browser”.

Thats is exactly what I mean. The App works well, but navigation in the sitemap is nor possible, because the App did not support the up and down button of the Fire TV Stick.

Can somebody implement that please. Cannot be more than an hour effort.
Thank you.

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

I doubt any of the current set of developers have a Fire TV to test this on. If you know enough to estimate how much this would take to work and have access to the hardware to test it on, perhaps you are in the best position spend the hour making these changes.

[Bruce_Osborne]

@rlkoshak

perhaps you are in the best position spend the hour making these changes.

Or provide a bounty as incentive for somebody else to develop.

Introducing BountySource for funded development

All, While in the early days of openHAB every user was also a developer, the number of non-tech users steadily grew over time. This led us to the situation, where the number of ideas and feature requests clearly outweighs the capacity of the openHAB developer community. Having more ideas than it is possible to implement brings up the question of prioritisation. For users that are developers, this is rather easy as they decide for themselves what is most important for them and then come up with…

[mueller-ma]

@fredl

Cannot be more than an hour effort.

I highly doubt that, but if it’s only so less work, feel free to open a PR