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
Of you’re fine with proprietary there’s Unified Remote.
Have you tried KDE Connect?
I have only used it to control my TV computer from my phone, but I can’t see why it wouldn’t work between 2 computers.
There is a ‘Multimedia control’ feature that allows pause/play/stop and volume control, the ‘Remote Input’ feature has a keyboard (so you should be able to trigger the space button) and if you want to do something more complicated you can set up and run commands.X2 on kde connect, I regularly use it to control my desktop with my laptop
Where is the machine located compared to the viewing room? Could you not use a wireless keyboard?