NVIDIA Shield (original) media player

Og shield with emby serving media. No major issues with it b apart from the odd system freeze. Ha integration does what I need for it

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AndroidTV (Nvidia Shield) \- If I’m watching something (YouTube, Kodi, etc.) and get up from the couch, the playback pauses and resumes when I sit back down \- As soon as media starts playing, my PC monitors go to sleep (I have three 27-inch monitors and they brighten up the room) \- When media playback starts, some lights turn off (like the ones behind my back). The lights that stay on switch to a deep orange and low brightness \- When playback stops, all lights go back to normal \- If playback is paused instead of stopped, a special scene is activated (e.g. lights leading to the bathroom …

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I've just tested with a Shield to make sure nothing has changed recently. A couple things to check: 1. The Plex app must be actively running in the foreground on the Shield. 2. HA must discover the Plex app while it's running (and listening to control API commands). Point (2) is a bit confusing as we don't always know when a new controllable Plex client has appeared. We scan both the local network and query plex.tv periodically, but it can sometimes take several minutes. There is a `button.scan_clients` entity which will force a scan for new clients. Perhaps try that and see if a controllable …

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