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The firetv platform allows you to control a Amazon Fire TV/stick.

The python-firetv Python 2.x module with its helper script that exposes a HTTP server to fetch state and perform actions is used.

Steps to configure your Amazon Fire TV stick with Home Assistant:

  • Turn on ADB Debugging on your Amazon Fire TV:
    • From the main (Launcher) screen, select Settings.
    • Select System > Developer Options.
    • Select ADB Debugging.
  • Find Amazon Fire TV device IP:
    • From the main (Launcher) screen, select Settings.
    • Select System > About > Network.
  • pip install firetv[firetv-server] into a Python 2.x environment
    • If installed on Debian Jessie then the libssl-dev and python-dev packages are needed. Install them with apt-get install libssl-dev python-dev
  • firetv-server -d <fire tv device IP>:5555, background the process
  • Configure Home Assistant as follows:

To add FireTV to your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
media_player:
  platform: firetv
  host: localhost
  port: 5556
  device: livingroom-firetv
  name: My Amazon Fire TV

Configuration variables:

  • host (Optional): The host where firetv-server is running. Default is localhost.
  • port (Optional): The port where firetv-server is running. Default is 5556.
  • device (Optional): The device ID. Defaults to default.
  • name (Optional): The friendly name of the device, default is 'Amazon Fire TV'.

Note that python-firetv has support for multiple Amazon Fire TV devices. If you have more than one configured, be sure to specify the device ID in `device`. Run `firetv-server -h` and/or view the source for complete capabilities.