[Help]: QuickBars does not appear in Accessibility menu on TV

[PeteMarsh]

Android TV Hardware

Panansonic TX-50JX800B / 4KTV_JUP

QuickBars Version

v1.3.2

Home Assistant Core Version

2026.3.1

What is happening?

After installing and successfully linking to HA, QuickBars is not listed under Accessibility in my Android TV options. So I can't use my remote control. Settings reports it as a Panasonic 4KTV-JUP version 11 with kernel version 4.19.195+. The label on the rear of the TV says it's a TX-50JX800B.
All that shows is Audio type, Visually impaired, AC4 dialogue enhancement, Captions, High contrast text & Text to speech.

@Trooped kindly linked this workaround but I can't make it work.

Running ./adb shell settings put secure enabled_accessibility_services dev.trooped.tvquickbars seems to complete ok, there are no errors reported.
But then trying ./adb shell pm grant dev.trooped.tvquickbars android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS gives the following:

Exception occurred while executing 'grant':
java.lang.SecurityException: Package dev.trooped.tvquickbars has not requested permission android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS
        at com.android.server.pm.permission.BasePermission.enforceDeclaredUsedAndRuntimeOrDevelopment(BasePermission.java:448)
        at com.android.server.pm.permission.PermissionManagerService.grantRuntimePermissionInternal(PermissionManagerService.java:1457)
        at com.android.server.pm.permission.PermissionManagerService.grantRuntimePermission(PermissionManagerService.java:1410)
        at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerShellCommand.runGrantRevokePermission(PackageManagerShellCommand.java:2300)
        at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerShellCommand.onCommand(PackageManagerShellCommand.java:251)
        at android.os.BasicShellCommandHandler.exec(BasicShellCommandHandler.java:98)
        at android.os.ShellCommand.exec(ShellCommand.java:44)
        at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.onShellCommand(PackageManagerService.java:21734)
        at android.os.Binder.shellCommand(Binder.java:929)
        at android.os.Binder.onTransact(Binder.java:813)
        at android.content.pm.IPackageManager$Stub.onTransact(IPackageManager.java:4603)
        at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.onTransact(PackageManagerService.java:4322)
        at android.os.Binder.execTransactInternal(Binder.java:1159)
        at android.os.Binder.execTransact(Binder.java:1123)

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Final Checks

• I have checked the entire troubleshooting section on the website, and tried all relevant steps.
• I have searched in the Q&A discussions if someone asked this question
• I have restarted both my Android TV and Home Assistant instance.

[Trooped]

Hey @PeteMarsh,
I'm sorry I can't help further now - I'm writing here to bump this and I hope someone who experienced this could chime in.
In the meanwhile, please also mention in your post the other things we've been talking about - whether other apps that also require this permission don't appear there etc.

I hope there's a solution here - it's really weird to me that an Android TV device running Android 11 has these limitations.