Sync the Android TV state (on / off) with a close light (such as a lightstrip)
Using this open-source project, you can sync your Android TV with the lights of your smart home (such as Yeelight, Philips Hue…). In fact, you can make the tv turn on or off a light close to the tv (for example, a LED lightstrip behind it or a near lamp), in order to create a better atmosphere when you're watching TV. It works with the IFTTT Webhooks (if you don't know what is IFTTT, click here.
- Download IFTTT on your mobile phone and create an account
- Create two new IFTTT Applet. In the field named this put a Webhook and select Receive a web request. In the text field, enter something as you wish (my suggestion is turn_on_lights.
- In the second field, the one called then, insert the service related to your smart light provider (such as Yeelight, Philips Hue, Smart Life etc), select the light you want to sync and, in the options, turn it on.
- Repeat the steps 2 and 3, but the web request should be opposite (for example turn_off_lights) and the action is to turn off the same light.
- Go to the Webhooks section and copy your Webhook Key.
- After cloning this repository, navigate to app/src/main/assets and create a new file called app_config.properties
- Copy the content of app_config_sample.properties and replace the values with the ones from your IFTTT configuration.
- Run the app on your TV!
- The app doesn't autorun after a complete power off of the device. This means that, after a system update or after a drop in electricity, you have to re-run the app after the boot (the problem is that the BroadcastReceiver doesn't call the BOOT_COMPLETED on Android TV after boot)
- App icon needs to be changed