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Control Google TV from Google Now
- Published_at:2013-07-23
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:Leon Nicholls
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- description: I have a hack for Android to use Google Now to control your Google TV device. The way it works is Google Now is used to open an app that invokes a Tasker task which then sends remote control commands to Google TV devices. To try this yourself, install these apps on your Android mobile device: 1. Tasker (paid): http://goo.gl/pSGQHX 2. Tasker App Factory (free): http://goo.gl/DgbXQ 3. GTV Tasker Plugin (free): http://goo.gl/5fTCRP You need to install the following app on your Google TV device: 1. GTV Tasker Apps (free): http://goo.gl/B1RCWN I wrote both the GTV Tasker Plugin and GTV Tasker Apps, but I don't have any relationship with the Tasker developers. For each Google TV command that you want to invoke from Google Now, do these steps: 1. Create a Tasker task, by following these instructions: http://goo.gl/BtPsOU 2. Assign a "GTV Tasker" action to that task, by following these instructions: http://goo.gl/Bzjrgk 3. Export the task as an app. It is very important that right after you create a new task, to give that task an icon otherwise you will get errors later when you create an app from that task. If you want to launch apps on your Google TV device, run "GTV Tasker Apps" on your Google TV device to get the data needed for the GTV Tasker Plugin to invoke an app. Since you will be using the app name for the Google Now commands, pick a unique prefix for the task name so it can be automatically selected by Google Now. I've used "TV" as a prefix, for example "TV Home" and "TV Netflix". Then in Google Now, you say either "open" or "open app" and then your app name, for example "open tv home". Although this demo controls Google TV devices, this technique could also be used to control other devices and invoke web services. So you can use this to add your own custom commands to Google Now.
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