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@tronikos tronikos commented Apr 6, 2025

Breaking change

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Add support for sending text to an Android TV Remote via the remote.send_command action and device: keyboard.
This is an alternative to #139033

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@tronikos tronikos marked this pull request as ready for review April 6, 2025 22:19
@tronikos tronikos changed the title Add support for sending text to Android TV Remote Add support for sending keyboard text to Android TV Remote Apr 8, 2025
Comment on lines +105 to +110
device = kwargs.get(ATTR_DEVICE)
if device and device != "keyboard":
raise HomeAssistantError(
translation_domain=DOMAIN,
translation_key="send_command_invalid_device",
)
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Would this be more clear as a separate/dedicated service action?

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