Hello, Can someone confirm to me whether it is possible to send notifications from Home Assistant to Zidoo? I will have a satellite decoder connected to the HDMI IN input and I would like to be able to display notifications from HA when using this decoder I have a Samsung TV which unfortunately does not have an android and can not do it directly on TV, so I would like to buy a zidoo z9x
You can push notifications to the Zidoo, but I cant tell you whether they will overlay over anything. I highly doubt it can overlay over a HDMI input though, the way HDMI works makes that very difficult It is technically possible to send notifications to a Samsung TV with the Tizen Smartthings API, but nobody seems to have it working reliably. It is super easy on Android and WebOS Tvs through.
I don't know about the architecture of the Zidoo hardware, but I've worked with Broadcom STB and PVR SoCs before. I have fairly intimate knowledge of how things work as I have written device drivers for them. Broadcom implementation of HDMI will take the HDMI in data and store it (and associated metadata) in a memory buffer. At that stage, you have the option of manipulating that data or not. Broadcom have loads of processing options, such as low latency or high quality transcoding in real-time (for streaming HDMI-in to network), scaling and other transforms, image processing, colour space conversion, de-interlacing, frame rate conversion, etc. Finally, the metadata is updated to reflect any changes and then pushed out the HDMI output (and possibly other outputs too). I suspect that most other SoCs, including those used by Zidoo will either have zero smarts and function as a dumb switch that is effectively a passthrough (no scope for any modifications) or have enough smarts to at least store the video frames in a frame buffer and modify the metadata. If it is the second case, then it should be possible to combine the HDMI-in frame buffer with an OSD overlay and display arbitrary messages. As to whether it is possible to do this, I don't know. I only have a Z9X 8K and it does not have a HDMI input to test.
I looked at this a while ago, and concluded It's generally easier to send notifications direct to the projector (or TV). For the device it's self. - When I looked a Android notifications on a Z9S, the required debug mode did not maintain after reboot. It maybe fixed on newer versions. - The other approach would be to try to install the HA Android app via apk.
I have samsung TV - it is not possible to send notifications directly Do notifications on the zidoo only work in debugging mode? Did you check it through the notification app? Do notifications appear on a screen that is displayed by hdmi?
Have just tested "Notifications for Android TV" on my Z9X. You need to install an app on the player (that seems to resolves the issues I experienced previously) 1. Download the Server for Android TV apk from `https://tvnotifications.de/en/v5` 2. Upload and install using the apk installer from `http://<player_ip_address>:18888` 3. Start the app on the player to intialize (setup wizard) 4. In HA, add a new "Notifications for Android TV" service/action and add enter you player IP address. (I named mine 'Zidoo TV') 5. Create a script ``` alias: Test Zidoo Notify sequence: - action: notify.zidoo_tv metadata: {} data: message: Here is a camera image title: Motion Detected data: icon: path: /config/www/logo-small.png image: path: /config/www/captures/lambcam.jpg description: "Sends a message to the Z9X with an icon and saved image" ``` _NOTE: path folders may need white listing 6. The "Notification for Android TV" app needs to be added to the Launch on (boot) Manager (see "Clean Up" app on the player). Can confirm it works when using the HDMI-In app in full-screen preview (over the HDMI output to TV).
