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Mute Ad/promotions from Accuradio, Spotify, Soundcloud, TIDAL & Pandora Android. Minimal, extensible & lightweight under 150kb.

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Will this work on an android tv device?

famewolf opened this issue · comments

commented

I have a xiaomi mi S android tv device and wonder if it will work there to mute the ads when played? I'm loving how this works when streaming to my echo show at home via bluetooth....just wish there was an iphone version as well since I was using it as my primary streamer as the battery life was very long. (I know it's pretty much impossible in the "walled garden" of iphone and am primarily an android user.

I know the android tv uses some different api's so wasn't sure it would work the same.

commented

I haven't tested on android tv's yet. Will have to experiment with it.

Im out of station till Mar 26, I'll test it then and make some adjustments/fixes if necessary.

For iOS devices, if you have ipa file, then it can be sideloaded without jailbreak, granted the apple apis behaves the someway as android (will have to check) then build an app.

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If you need someone to test the ios version should you get to that point, I've got an unlocked iphone XR I can try it on. I'l also be happy to test the android tv version. I'm a retired mainframe programmer and know how to grab logcats. Linux is also my desktop os of choice.

commented

Nice!

I spent couple hours experimenting with android tv, the tv was on android 9

  • ad-silence can be installed via apk directly.
  • spotify has a tv version (made the necessary changes on #38 )
    • android tv's also has notification apis' and Spotify behaves the same as it would on phone
  • was unable to grant permission to access notification for some reason
    • via ui (settings manually) and through adb
    • could not find anything useful in the logs..might be a problem with the specific tv I experimented with (it is a Chinese brand)..
commented

I've got a xiaomi mi s which uses android tv that I can install it on if you want me to try some things. Pandora had it's own android tv app also. I've been playing liveone pretty much nonstop for the last 4 or 5 days.....ad-silence has worked well with it other then occasionally clipping small messages part way where they might say "the hits from the 80's, 90's and today".....I'd get "The hits from"...I'm guessing part of your criteria just cuts any "songs" under 30 seconds or so?

commented

yes if you have time to spare but I would not recommend at this state, because you have to

  • install the apk via a usb or adb
  • have to navigate through menu options to launch the app
  • getting debug log from the tv is a bit difficult

for liveone, current implementation gets for song title and checks for empty or one of the following strings

<string name="liveOne_ad_string">Advertisement</string>
<string name="liveOne_ad_string_2">60 Minutes Uninterrupted Listening</string>

and immediately blocks it. The issue might be because liveone updating the song title with a short delay.

commented

It's been a while but I vaguely recall being able to connect via wifi adb using ip_address:5555 Logcat doesn't work on android tv?

commented

Logcat does work but you have to enable debugging and connect it with IP address, I'm surprised that you already knew these things 👏

commented

As a followup. I purchased a cheap $20 android tv (10) box made by Onn from Walmart. I installed ad silence and got as far as clicking the grant permission option and it died with no displayed error. The regular logcat apps don't seem to work so I'll have to figure out how to get logs.