Might just be me but I feel if something has been requested for 5 years it might be time to look into it. I love home assistant and I am in no way a programmer. (then I’d just do it myself for the community). The ability to connect and use voice asistant with the Android TV os would be great though.

  • Dave@lemmy.nz
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    24 days ago

    The thing is, they spent those years building out the voice assistant support. That was probably a better use of their time than reworking the entire interface to work with a TV remote, in my opinion.

    They are a small team with a lot of help from the community. You can’t tell the community what to do since they volunteer their time, and the small team has a focused road map that I think makes sense.

    I bet you could find another 100 examples of things not done for 5 years, it’s just this is the one you in particular want.

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    24 days ago

    In the same 5 years, you could’ve easily learned how to program, and do it yourself. As a software engineer, I’d say most people can learn to code fairly quickly, so it’d be more like 5 weeks, if that…

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    23 days ago

    Dashboards can get quite complicated and funnily enough TV remotes are not all the same. With a small userbase (it is by far not the most requested feature) it will be hard to maintain such a feature without just fulfilling a one-user-usecase.