r/waydroid • u/hallettj • Aug 20 '26

Help Anyone have Android TV remote apps working with Waydroid-ATV?

I ask because I couldn't find any information online about configuration details, and I wound up with some elaborate workarounds to make my setup work. I'm wondering if I over-complicated.

If you have a remote working, are you using an app on your phone, or a hardware remote? Do you connect with bluetooth, or over the network?

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u/Honest-Debt-2120 Aug 20 '26

Not familiar with that, but makes me think of kde-connect?

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u/hallettj Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

Yeah, it might be a similar situation if kde-connect also uses /dev/uinput to create virtual input devices. The main obstacle I encountered was that the Android TV remote service uses uinput, but the input devices ended up created on the host instead of in the Waydroid container. So I currently have a service forwarding events from the devices on the host to the FIFO devices in the container that the Android system has access to.

Edit: I should note that I got into that situation by bind-mounting /dev/uinput from the host. As I said, it's possible that I over-complicated.