Python deprecation warning for integration: androidtv_remote

[Taomyn]

The problem

The AndroidTV Remote integration (androidtv_remote) generates a warning during startup:

Logger: py.warnings
Source: components/androidtv_remote/__init__.py:8
First occurred: 08:52:47 (1 occurrence)
Last logged: 08:52:47

/usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages/google/__init__.py:2: UserWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API. See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html. The pkg_resources package is slated for removal as early as 2025-11-30. Refrain from using this package or pin to Setuptools<81. __import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2025.6.0

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

androidtv_remote

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/androidtv_remote/

Diagnostics information

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Additional information

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[home-assistant]

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[BelenCaSa]

the same problem here.

[sparky8512]

This appears to have been introduced with the update of the protobuf Python package, in PR #143633, and will affect any integration that uses that package. Also related is whatever caused the setuptools package to update from version 80.8.0 to 80.9.0, where this deprecation warning appears to have been made more severe.

Oddly, this deprecation warning is not reproducible on either a normal Linux system or Windows, because the binary wheels for the protobuf package for those system types do not include the file google/__init__.py. Nor does the musllinux binary wheel (which Home Assistant OS uses) of version 5.29.2 of protobuf, which was in use by core-2025.5.3. However, the musllinux binary wheel of versions 6.30.2 and 6.31.1 of protobuf do include that file.

So one possible solution to this warning is to figure out what made the musllinux wheel start packaging google/__init__.py and make it stop.

Another possible solution is to just ignore it and hope it goes away.... which, in fact, it should. While the warning makes it sound like this will eventually break in a later setuptools version, that's not actually the case here because the offending import of pkg_resources is done in a try block which will fall back to importing pkgutil, which works just fine without warnings.

Alternatively, the version of setuptools could be pinned to 80.8.0 until major version 81 of that package is released.