Hi all,
just thought I'd hopefully give anyone who uses fire tv stuff something to help with a notification overlay, as there really is not a lot out there for automation.
You'll get a nice little popup box with text, a small image, and most importantly, it'll pop over anything you are currently running like netflix, etc - best I had before was notices in kodi.
What's needed:
Notifications for fire tv app - installed on the fire stick from the amazon app store
Curl installed on your HS server
The IP of your fire device
A small png file (2kb roughly, not too big)
So, anyone who is interested will need to install the app "notifications for fire tv" on their stick, and run the app, setting it up to allow notifications
While in the settings of the fire device, get your IP for later reference.
So, the app works as a basic web listener on the fire device - it's listening on port 7676. Now, it's very dumb, and it will do nothing unless you do a multipart post to it with all the parameters.
I did try and failed miserably to get vb and powershell to do the multipart form data, hence why Curl is a requirement - but have at it if you want to write something proper, you can see what parameters are needed by just decoding the curl constructed command.
So, once you have the app installed and curl running, just write some code to send the data needed, changing the last part to the IP of your fire device:
In summary of the above - it's got quotes up the wazoo (chr(34)) to ensure the curl command doesn't choke - especially take care of the filename upload part, running curl under cmd process was a pain to get right.
It's basically doing a post with multipart form data, and you can play around with the values:
Title = Title of the message
msg = body of the message
duration = duration of pop up in seconds
transparency = 0 =transparent, 1 = solid
filename = the png file being uploaded.
Hopefully this will help someone, just now looking if I can get a triggered cam overlay fudged, as my current method is a pi switching the input to its own hdmi port for 30 seconds, then back
just thought I'd hopefully give anyone who uses fire tv stuff something to help with a notification overlay, as there really is not a lot out there for automation.
You'll get a nice little popup box with text, a small image, and most importantly, it'll pop over anything you are currently running like netflix, etc - best I had before was notices in kodi.
What's needed:
Notifications for fire tv app - installed on the fire stick from the amazon app store
Curl installed on your HS server
The IP of your fire device
A small png file (2kb roughly, not too big)
So, anyone who is interested will need to install the app "notifications for fire tv" on their stick, and run the app, setting it up to allow notifications
While in the settings of the fire device, get your IP for later reference.
So, the app works as a basic web listener on the fire device - it's listening on port 7676. Now, it's very dumb, and it will do nothing unless you do a multipart post to it with all the parameters.
I did try and failed miserably to get vb and powershell to do the multipart form data, hence why Curl is a requirement - but have at it if you want to write something proper, you can see what parameters are needed by just decoding the curl constructed command.
So, once you have the app installed and curl running, just write some code to send the data needed, changing the last part to the IP of your fire device:
Code:
Sub Main(strmsg as string)
dim poptime as integer = 30
hs.launch("cmd", "/c C:\scripts\curl -v -F type=0 -F title=Notification -F msg=" & chr(34) & strmsg &chr(34)&" -F duration="&poptime&" -F fontsize=0 -F position=0 -F width=0 -F bkgcolor=" & chr(34) & "#607d8b" & chr(34) & " -F transparency=1 -F offset=0 -F offsety=0 -F app=" & chr(34) & "Notifications for fire tv" & chr(34) & " -F force=true -F filename=@\" & chr(34) & "C:/Scripts/icon.png\"& chr(34)&";filename="&chr(34)&"icon.png"&chr(34)&" http://192.168.x.x:7676","","0")
End Sub
It's basically doing a post with multipart form data, and you can play around with the values:
Title = Title of the message
msg = body of the message
duration = duration of pop up in seconds
transparency = 0 =transparent, 1 = solid
filename = the png file being uploaded.
Hopefully this will help someone, just now looking if I can get a triggered cam overlay fudged, as my current method is a pi switching the input to its own hdmi port for 30 seconds, then back
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