[mythtv-users] Android MythFrontend on Fire Stick (SOLVED)

[Dave Pearson (Lists)]

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From: Dave Pearson (Lists) <lists at the-pearsons.co.uk>
Sent: Saturday 13th October 2018 17:26
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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Android MythFrontend on Fire Stick


On 13 Oct 2018, at 16:30, Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 10/13/2018 10:56 AM, Dave Pearson (Lists) wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>> 
>> Yes, I saw that, but I haven’t a clue what I need to put into the 
>> dialog boxes to represent the buttons on the remote.
> This is the process, for example to set a button for Menu
> Setup->Edit Keys->Global->Menu
> Press right arrow until you are on a blank box at the bottom
> Press Enter
> See a dialog that says "Press a key Waiting for a key press"
> Press the button on the remote that you want to use for menu (or hold it 
> down for a long press)
> See a dialog that says "Add key 'Enter'"?
> Select OK.
> 
> Repeat for other keys.
> Escape to exit and remember to select OK to "Save changes"
> 
> Note that to use long press you have to first add that to the Long press 
> group and exit out of Edit keys before you can add the Long Press key to 
> the Menu action.
> 
> I set the rewind and FF buttons at the bottom as volume controls, but 
> you can set them as you please, for example you can set a menu option there.
>> 
>> Performance on the Fire TV Stick seems ok for me, I’m only using 720p 
>> for my HD recordings. The playback profile I’m using is “MediaCodec 
>> Normal”. I wonder if I need to create a custom profile?
>> 
> You can try OpenGL Slim. It seems to work about as well as mediacodec 
> normal and may help with your problem with the HDPVR.
>> I can’t see what version of the Fire Stick I have, but the software 
>> version is Fire OS 5.2.6.6 (617513220) and it’s Fire TV Home version 
>> 6.0.9.1-014
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Dave
>> 
>> 
> I have a fire stick gen 2 and it has the same version numbers so I 
> assume yours in gen 2.
> Under certain conditions the colors go wrong. I have a fix for that.
> If you are still having problems with HDPVR recordings you can open 
> ticket, provide a sample file of a recording that causes a crash, and I 
> can look into it.
> 
> Peter
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Hi Peter,

Thanks for your quick response, that’s problem 1 resolved.

Unfortunately, OpenGL Slim is only any good for the DVB live tv & recordings, for the HDPVR live tv & recordings it is unwatchable due to constant freezes.

I do know that the hardware is capable of playing this content, as it works in Kodi, so I suspect it’s a case of setting up a custom profile, but I don’t really know where to start with that as I’ve only ever used the pre-defined profiles.

Regards,
Dave
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Hi Peter,



It looks like I've cracked it, my new playback profile works for both DVB & HDPVR content and I've managed to set up the remote to fumction the way I would like it (almost).



I have just one further question - is there a way I can call up the on-screen keyboard in live TV so that I can enter channel numbers and change to a new channel easily? At the moment, I'm calling up the TV Guide, but it's a bit of a clunky way to change channels.



Thank you so much for all your work on this, I'm sure there must be many other people who would benefit from MythFrontend on Android, for them, I'll include the link to the MythTV wiki page:


https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Android


Regards,

Dave.
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