Android TV 11 showing only Off, Idle or Standby, not recognizing running apps

I have a TCL TV with Android TV 11 installed running on latest release HA (2021.9.7) and I the only states HA receives are Off,Idle and Standby with adb response: null in Developer - States tab.

I ran the commands through adb shell and these are the results:

~$ adb shell dumpsys power | grep 'Display Power' | grep 'state=ON' || dumpsys power | grep 'mScreenOn=true'
Display Power: state=ON
~$ adb shell getprop ro.product.manufacturer
TCL
~$ adb shell getprop ro.product.model
Smart TV Pro
~$ adb shell getprop ro.build.version.release
11

adb shell dumpsys window windows | grep -E 'mCurrentFocus|mFocusedApp'

gives no response

this works

~$ adb shell dumpsys window windows | grep Window\ #1
  Window #1 Window{f978c53 u0 com.google.android.youtube.tv/com.google.android.apps.youtube.tv.activity.MainActivity}:

~$ adb shell ps -A | grep u0_a
u0_a39          410   4071       0      0 0                   0 Z [com.tcl.usercen]
u0_a72         1029    274 1270008  83388 0                   0 S com.android.systemui
u0_a78         1229    274 1237900  48308 0                   0 S com.google.android.ext.services
u0_a22         1279    274 1303284  39828 0                   0 S com.google.android.tv.remote.service
u0_a70         1302    274 1223912  39352 0                   0 S com.google.android.partnersetup
u0_a15         1361    274 1353364  75584 0                   0 S com.google.android.gms.persistent
u0_a37         1433    274 1266488  51476 0                   0 S com.google.android.inputmethod.latin
u0_a15         1566    274 1238860  41872 0                   0 S com.google.process.gservices
u0_a77         1628    274 1240776  39884 0                   0 S com.android.providers.media.module
u0_a23         1751    274 1277568  76200 0                   0 S com.google.android.tvrecommendations
u0_a27         1772    274 1318284  55712 0                   0 S com.google.android.tvlauncher
u0_a12         1912    274 1255744  42656 0                   0 S com.android.providers.tv
u0_a6          2106    274 1219396  37888 0                   0 S com.android.externalstorage
u0_a59         2593    274 1906136  49788 0                   0 S com.tcl.bi:service
u0_a16         2653    274 2034692  39224 0                   0 S com.google.android.katniss:search
u0_a55         2783    274 1900044  55384 0                   0 S com.netflix.ninja
u0_a80         2859    274 1265992  54496 0                   0 S tv.twitch.android.app
u0_a16         3028    274 1991444  38792 0                   0 S com.google.android.katniss:interactor
u0_a19         3090    274 1252588  41664 0                   0 S com.google.android.tungsten.setupwraith
u0_a15         3147    274 1296252 102184 0                   0 S com.google.android.gms
u0_a11         3218    274 1375284 107356 0                   0 S com.google.android.apps.mediashell
u0_a79         3630    274 1807528 341556 0                   0 S org.xbmc.kodi
u0_a39         4071    274 1278092  43744 0                   0 S com.tcl.usercenter

~$ CURRENT_APP=$(adb shell dumpsys activity a . | grep -E 'mResumedActivity' | cut -d ' ' -f 8) && CURRENT_APP=${CURRENT_APP%%/*} && echo $CURRENT_APP
com.netflix.ninja
~$ CURRENT_APP=$(adb shell dumpsys activity a . | grep -E 'mResumedActivity' | cut -d ' ' -f 8) && CURRENT_APP=${CURRENT_APP%%/*} && echo $CURRENT_APP
com.tcl.waterfall.overseas
~$ CURRENT_APP=$(adb shell dumpsys activity a . | grep -E 'mResumedActivity' | cut -d ' ' -f 8) && CURRENT_APP=${CURRENT_APP%%/*} && echo $CURRENT_APP
com.android.vending
~$ CURRENT_APP=$(adb shell dumpsys activity a . | grep -E 'mResumedActivity' | cut -d ' ' -f 8) && CURRENT_APP=${CURRENT_APP%%/*} && echo $CURRENT_APP
tv.twitch.android.app

Here’s full output of dumpsys window and dumpsys activity starter in a gist link

[ollo69]

Hey,

I will take a look to this on next days, may be next w.e., to see if I can help to split get_properties method into multiple ADB shell commands as suggested by @JeffLIrion. If you have some additional suggestion on expected implementation report it here, otherwise I will create a PR when I will have something ready to discuss on.

[JeffLIrion]

I did a lot of work to spport device-specific commands. Now all that’s needed is for someone to submit a pull request. https://github.com/JeffLIrion/python-androidtv/blob/1577e22f0137007327595340f94d0428c63791cd/androidtv/basetv/basetv.py#L94-L173