How to control the STB over the local network

Introduction

Android Debug Bridge (ADB) is a tool created by Google for developers to debug their applications and system, however, you may also control your STB using it.  You can ADB to your devices by connecting through the network.  This guide is to walk you through the steps required to how H200 can be controlled over the network. 

Change channel

An adb input event allows you to send certain events like channel or volume change on your device. Please see the following examples. 

Channel up

adb shell input keyevent 166

Channel down

adb shell input keyevent 167

Volume up

adb shell input keyevent 24

Volume down

adb shell input keyevent 25

Push firmware

Sideload the given full OTA package

adb sideload ota.zip

Get packets installed

Prints all packages

adb shell pm list packages

See their associated APK file

adb shell pm list packages -f

Services running

To dump all services

adb shell dumpsys

Only list services, do not dump them

adb shell dumpsys -l

Reboot STB 

This command reboots your device in normal mode. 

adb reboot

Android devices have a recovery mode, which is a special bootable partition. If you are encountering issues with your Android device, then you may be able to fix these problems by booting into recovery mode.

If you wish to reboot your device into recovery mode, then you can issue the following command:

adb reboot recovery

Reset STB

To factory reset your device you can issue the following command:

adb shell input keyevent 65535

Get STB properties

Gets the system properties, or lists them all

adb shell getprop

Show property types instead of values

adb shell getprop -T

How to collect Syslog

To run logcat through the adb shell, the general usage is:

[adb] logcat [<option>] ... [<filter-spec>] ...

You can run logcat as an adb command or directly in a shell prompt of your emulator or connected device. To view log output using adb, navigate to your SDK platform-tools/ directory and execute:

adb logcat

You can create a shell connection to a device and execute:

$ adb shell
# logcat

For more ADB commands, please visit the android developers site:  https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/adb