[mythtv-users] keyboard does not come up when running mythfrontend on android

[George Bingham]

Patrick,

I had the same difficulties when I first tried to use mythfrontend on my
phone, I think what enabled me to finally get it connected was only after I
cut cable and got a chromecast with google TV, installed it there and got
that connected, then for some reason the app on my phone (which is a pixel
4a btw, ymmv) was able to connect.

I did a few things like gave all my android frontends unique but similar
names to facilitate the sharing of their settings.

I did a lot of googling and reading of the myth wiki for android tips &
tricks...

There is one that helped me a lot, it's how to set the regions of the phone
screen such that tapping in a particular area mapped to a particular
"remote / keyboard" key so that once you get it connected and able to play
recordings you can navigate & control stuff better.

I don't have much practice with it, but here is where I read about it:
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythTV_on_Android#Gesture_Support

there are different screen maps for live tv playback and recorded playback,
it's easiest to set or change those values via mythweb.

HTH,

-- George


On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 11:15 AM David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 11:09:53AM -0700, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 12:19:47PM -0500, David Engel wrote:
> > > Ah, I think by "Android" you mean a phone or tablet.  Is that right?
> > > Mythfrontend is barely usable (and that's being generous, IMO) on
> > > phones and tablets.  Consequently, when we hear Android here, we
> > > mainly think of Android TV or Fire TV devices being used with a remote
> > > control.  For phone and tablet use with MythTV, I suggest you either
> > > use Kodi or a media viewer using DLNA.
> >
> > Yeah, I finally hooked up a USB keyboard using an OTG adapter and yeah
> it's not
> > really usable but I wanted to try it out.
> >
> > I couldn't get leanfront to install (not that it would work any better),
>
> Leanfront is currently not really designed for a touch interface
> either.  Some other developers are currently working on redesigning
> MythTV's web interface.  That will hopefully have better touch support
> someday but that won't be for a while.
>
> David
> --
> David Engel
> david at istwok.net
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