Here is my problem:
Our TV is connected to a SBC running a GNOME/Wayland desktop, where we watch Jellyfin and sometimes Netflix/Hulu through Firefox.
I’d like to be able to trigger pause/play (space button) from Home Assistant, which is running on my home server.
What I am thinking of would be a server/daemon running on the TV computer that my home server would be able to send keys to via a CLI tool (in this case the space key). I am surprised to find that I cannot locate any program like this.
Can anyone provide any suggestions here?
Other ideas:
- Jellyfin’s HA integration doesn’t let me pause/play from it, and that still doesn’t handle Hulu/Netflix.
- I was able to get this working through SSH and there are tools like ydotool/wtype here that work, but I found waiting for SSH to be a bit slow to connect.
Update: I got frustrated and coded up a solution: https://gitlab.com/neilsimp1/kbsrv
If your willing to write a little code, you could get an esp32, and use on of the keyboard libraries to make it appear as a keyboard?
https://hackaday.com/2021/03/26/usb-comes-to-the-esp32/
Very roundabout solution though.
I am fine with a little coding (see update in my post)
Thats definitely better than using a separate esp32. Nice!