Android Screen Grabber

just tested this app. normally just used the kodi add on.

is there a way to set it up it only shows leds if something is playing in the background? like the addon?

this way i have the leds on even if im just in the menu

the rest works like a charm on my shield

Quote from Joe23

the rest works like a charm on my shield

Does Netflix and Amazon still not work?
Is there any kind of workaround available?

Any change to make it working on zidoo build-in mediaplayer? Ambilight with 3rd party players and Kodi (ZDMC) works fine on the exact same files. Any workarounds with root?

Hello, I'm new to this. Thanks for this Android Screen Grabber. Not sure if this can help, but worth giving a look/shot? https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy

Quote from frag1x

Hi,

thanks for the great work, I am using this on my Sony AndroidTV.
In Kodi playing 1080p files everything works fine, but i cannot get it working with 4k/HDR files, the LEDs just stay off.

Also with the Sony Media Player i have the same problem.
There was a tip to turn off hardware acceleration in KODI, but this is needed for 4k/HDR files to play stutter free. When i turn it off the movies are not watchable with ~1fps but Ambilight is working.

Is it thechnically even possible to make it work with hardware acceleration on? If not i have to think of using an external player with expensive 4k/HDR splitter/downscaler.

Hello. I also have a Sony Android TV. I installed Kodi and the netflix plugin. I disabled the 2 'hardware acceleration' settings, but this is preventing even 1080p video from playing from netflix (there is sound, but no image). Can you tell me how you configured kodi please?

Quote from ameel

Hello, I'm new to this. Thanks for this Android Screen Grabber. Not sure if this can help, but worth giving a look/shot? https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy

Tested this, but unfortunately the video stream itself is black whereas everything else is visible (menu, subtitles, etc)

Hi all,

So I managed to get Netflix and Amazon Prime to work through a convoluted way, as follows (on up to Android 8. This will not work on Android 9)

1. Download the following Android apks on your android device/tv:
a. VirtualXposed (https://vxposed.com/)
b. Netflix
c. Amazon Prime Video

2. Install VirtualXposed
3. In VirtualXposed, install Netflix and Prime Video. Make sure you grant permissions.
4. In VirtualXposed, launch Xposed Installer.
5. In Xposed Installer, go to 'Download' and search for "BlockSecureFlag". Go to versions, download and install latest version. Go to 'Modules' in Xposed Installer settings, and tick 'BlackSecureFlag'.
6. Launch BlockSecureFlag from VirtualXposed. Tick both Netflix and Prime Video, and click on the save icon.
7. Go back to VirtualXposed, go to settings menu and select reboot.
8. Launch either Netflix or Prime Videos and profit $$$

edit:
The android screen grabber works with Netflix App for phone but not Netflix App for TV.

Hey,

@abrenoch
First of all, great work on the app. Tested it on my XF9005 (X900F in America), and it works great out of the box.
The only thing i'm struggling with is 4k content. It *works* with 4k content, but the playback starts to stutter if the grabber is active.

As a developer, i startet debugging the app, to see where the performance is lost (and why). The app itself doesn't use many resources, but it seems that the tv struggles to render the 4k video to the virtual display fast enough.

I tried different things to determine the cause (not sending the picture to hyperion, not attaching an ImageAvailableListener, rendering to a surface provided by a MediaCodec instead of an ImageReader), but the only thing that seems to improve performance is to not provide the virtual display with a surface.

Is there anything in the works regarding performance?
Could an external android TV Box possibly be fast enough to not struggle with 4k + grabber active?
Or am i out of luck, and i need to buy something like the lightberry hdmi 2.0 kit to enjoy 4k content with the lighting?

Quote from abrenoch

Hey @heikomat

To be totally honest, I'm not sure how much more performance I personally would be able to squeeze out of it. I'm not sure of have enough knowledge of the internal workings of the surfaces & image buffers to form a concise plan for improving things. I would be more than happy to look at any ideas people may have though.

What you could try is the Alpha #4 build from github. That version still has the old grabber that I started with included, which leverages openGL. In testing we didn't see any real benefit to using it on the hardware we had, so opted to remove it since keeping it around effectively meant double the work for new features.

Give that version a whirl and see if there is any better performance. There are probably some random bugs left in that build, but should be usable enough to test it!

Thanks for the reply and the info about the opengl version. will definitely give that a try someday this week
For now i made it possible to pause and resume the virtual display from the outside, and made a button send the appropriate adb command. This way, i just need to press a button to disable/enable it, when i start/stop watching 4k content ( https://github.com/heikomat/hyper…7de049bca9443a6 )

Quote from abrenoch

Nice work, but I believe this should be possible already with this adb command:
`adb shell am start com.abrenoch.hyperiongrabber.tv/com.abrenoch.hyperiongrabber.common.ToggleActivity`

I should maybe document that somewhere; I forget it exists!

Cheers!

oh, i didn't find that. Will try that one out later today. My command currently looks like this:
`adb shell am startservice -a com.abrenoch.hyperiongrabber.service.ACTION_TOGGLE com.abrenoch.hyperiongrabber/.common.HyperionScreenService`

Hi all! Could you tell me whether the android grabber grabs events while watching videos in the kodi like it does the framegrabber in the librelec (xbmcVideoChecker) or led lights turns always on? Thanks.

Quote from ameel

Hi all,

So I managed to get Netflix and Amazon Prime to work through a convoluted way, as follows (on up to Android 8. This will not work on Android 9)

1. Download the following Android apks on your android device/tv:
a. VirtualXposed (https://vxposed.com/)
b. Netflix
c. Amazon Prime Video

2. Install VirtualXposed
3. In VirtualXposed, install Netflix and Prime Video. Make sure you grant permissions.
4. In VirtualXposed, launch Xposed Installer.
5. In Xposed Installer, go to 'Download' and search for "BlockSecureFlag". Go to versions, download and install latest version. Go to 'Modules' in Xposed Installer settings, and tick 'BlackSecureFlag'.
6. Launch BlockSecureFlag from VirtualXposed. Tick both Netflix and Prime Video, and click on the save icon.
7. Go back to VirtualXposed, go to settings menu and select reboot.
8. Launch either Netflix or Prime Videos and profit $$$

edit:
The android screen grabber works with Netflix App for phone but not Netflix App for TV.

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On my Android TV I get "failed to parse the package", so I can't use it. (Xiaomi Mi Box S)

On my smartphone the app force closes

Hi, is it possible to start Android screen grabber remotely from another computer or device, maybe via MQTT or some other service?

Afaik you could send an adb command. Otherwise you will need to install a mqtt broker on your android device to communicate.

What is the application?

Hi All,
Is there a way to edit any of the settings. I have it working with my shield although the colors are on the wrong side. For instance if i have a blue image on the left (TV) the blue leds will be on the right.

Also when the color rotation happens my leds light up anticlockwise

My wish is to start grabber from Home Assistant, which is running on another computer.
@neek0la: check the settings in your hyperion.config.json file. alternatively you could still manually flip the order of the leds behind your TV

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My wish is to start grabber from Home Assistant, which is running on another computer.

Are you running hassio? Then you can use the ADB addon to send your commands.

https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-adb
youtube: Android TV & Home Assistant

If you just running hass, then you will probably need a seperate adb server to create the connection, like sorccu/adb.

I've managed to setupo adb, it works now. But if I run "adb shell am startservice -a com.abrenoch.hyperiongrabber.service.ACTION_TOGGLE com.abrenoch.hyperiongrabber/.common.HyperionScreenService", I get the following error:

Starting service: Intent { act=com.abrenoch.hyperiongrabber.service.ACTION_TOGGLE cmp=com.abrenoch.hyperiongrabber/.common.HyperionScreenService }
Error: Requires permission not exported from uid 10087

However, if I run this:
adb shell am start com.abrenoch.hyperiongrabber.tv/com.abrenoch.hyperiongrabber.common.ToggleActivity

I get the following error:

Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] cmp=com.abrenoch.hyperiongrabber.tv/com.abrenoch.hyperiongrabber.common.ToggleActivity }
Error type 3
Error: Activity class {com.abrenoch.hyperiongrabber.tv/com.abrenoch.hyperiongrabber.common.ToggleActivity} does not exist.

What is the correct command to start screen grabber in background?