[Shield Android TV Android Development] banderos101:
Glad you managed to get it working

"It helps that i can also quickly unlock the shield by pressing a mapped button"

Let me just quickly clarify that statement, what i meant was, if i had to always use my not so sensitive mouse to unlock my shield everysingle time, i'd probably not have a lock screen setup like most folks, so taskers a bless send in this respect, as it lets me choose multiple methods i.e. nfc for instance or, in my case, remote button

As to how im doing that, well its a combination of apps,

xposed additions - for mapping buttons to trigger a chosen tasker task

tasker - tasker and plugins to do the actual unlock of screen

In an offtopic, im now experimenting with a new open source tasker plugin called airtask, basically, if you know about autoremote plugin, its similar to that, except, that it still works when i restrict wifi connection but allow LAN connection, unlike the other similar apps i tested

So far, with tasker and airtask ive managed to

-send video links from my tablet that open up on my shield tv, i can pick which video player i want the shield to use, i.e. gplayer - pop up video, so it opens above the current app (kinda like chromecast :), except you have a little bit more control ovr whats going on, in regards to closed source "chromecasting"

-send website links from tab to shield tv that opens my browser and loads the website im currently looking at on my tablet

-have a small scene pop up for 5 seconds whenerver i copy ANYTHING, so i copy the address of a website from a browser, tasker scene pops up, i press send on that scene, and it shoots over whatever happens to by in androids clipboard............at some point i want to test out a form of network copy/paste, to see if i can copy text from one device and imediatly paste on another device, maybe for when im creating an email

-tested turning of bluetooth on off, working (imagining a control scene where i can turn on/of certain things like bluetooth remotely, control the volume of the shield with any of my android/tasker/airtask devices, a media scene i.e. play/pause

Another thing im gonna be looking into is this

https://github.com/l3iggs/android_external_sshfs

To compliment tasker, to turn a usb harddrive, connected to my shield and have it show up in my devices as if it was a local filesystem, like sd card or otg usb, but over network, like es file explorer to es file explorer, except EVERY app can see this share (future proof, more control, unified network system wide sharing, and stop using the closed source es file explorer to do this i.e. recently bought by another company, and now including bloatware

Using Ssh, and being able to share between devices, using a LMT to bring up a tasker scene that lets me share something between devices, without having to close the current app, whatever the current app is......should be a standard android feature :)

This will then give me the ability to tasker "dlna" LOCAL files from one device to another, like i have it currently setup up to pass a link from one device to another and have it play, or load website (and probably many other things that im gonna be thinking up with my new shiny toy plugin) :)

Also the ability to test out tasker rsync plugin, end goal........transfer every bit of data from various devices and transfer everything i can into one place, the shield usb connected harddrive, over network, automatically........imagine, literally, one single music folder on the "network storage" that every device can access or transfer too/from

Whoah, im getting ahead of myself here, i havent got this bit working yet

Anyway, sorry for rambling on, hope i wasnt too much offtopic, its exciting to think about the impressive possibilities here, thanks zulu for providing the shield aspect to it, very important piece to the puzzle........shield is a very impressive piece of kit......cant wait for the other parts to catchup to compliment and enhance it i.e. home automation perhaps :), but the ability to CHOOSE and control my prefered controller :) if that makes sense

Peace out

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If ANY, of that, makes sense :eek:

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More nonsensesical rambling thoughts......i do apologize............shhhhhh, not really

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Well.......kinda

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I lie, seems like the "desktop" version of airtask is open source......not sure about the app