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[Fire TV Themes and Apps] kufor:
Thanks for the inclusion of power options screensaver mate. ;)

Would it be possible to map Voice Search button to Sleep function please?

Can I do that in keymap?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
That's fine. I thought of adding it to the wiki myself (I've added quite a bit). I actually did post about it in the FireTV thread on XBMC's forums, but I wasn't seeing much response.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
That'd take better skills than mine. The Voice Search button is hard-coded into the FTV's OS to launch their app, so it can't be intercepted by XBMC. Perhaps [MENTION=3991724]rbox[/MENTION] could write an Xposed module to intercept and remap the Voice Search button to a Power button.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] roligov:
Firstly thanks elmerohueso for your excellent work :)

Second is there any way to delay the boot into XBMC for a few seconds? I ask because I use NFS shares and it appears that XBMC is loaded even before the network is ready. This leaves me with no content in XBMC, I need to go back into KFTV, kill XBMC, relaunch it. I've tried pressing home and everything to get XBMC to reload loads my content from my remote NAS.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] abonet:
Do you have auto-reloading of content turned on in XBMC?

Normally XBMC just remembers your NFS/samba content and only bothers to look for it when you try to play it. I can unplug my network cable from my FireTV and still see all my XBMC media sitting on my Samba server, but if I try to play it, then it complains. Plug the cable back in -- and I can play it fine.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] roligov:
Where do I see if that settings is on or off? My sources lives on my NAS too. This is what I have in my advancedsettings.xml:

<advancedsettings>
<videodatabase>
<type>mysql</type>
<host>192.168.0.50</host>
<port>3306</port>
<user>xbmc</user>
<pass>xbmc</pass>
</videodatabase>
<musicdatabase>
<type>mysql</type>
<host>192.168.0.50</host>
<port>3306</port>
<user>xbmc</user>
<pass>xbmc</pass>
</musicdatabase>
<videolibrary>
<importwatchedstate>true</importwatchedstate>
<importresumepoint>true</importresumepoint>
</videolibrary>
<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/</from>
<to>nfs://192.168.0.50/mnt/user/Apps/xbmc/Thumbnails/</to>
</substitute>
<substitute>
<from>special://masterprofile/sources.xml</from>
<to>nfs://192.168.0.50/mnt/user/Apps/xbmc/sources.xml</to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
</advancedsettings>
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] navigates:
This fixed. Thanks for the code. I saw that the DialogKeyboard.xml for the PC version was correct out of the box. the android had the above include part missing.

There is one more thing that is broken but that is not a big deal. When You add a new source and want to choose scrapping, that is not possible with your skin even with gotham at least for me. The fix is to go back to confluence, add your source and then change the skin back to confluence ++. You cannot also modify the name of the source but that is not a big deal.

Question: Is there a way to add the shutdown menu with suspend to xbmc helix. I like sticking to xbmc as the backup restore etc is easier with adbfire :)

The only reason i like the confluence ++ skin made by you is because of the additional tiles and the fire theme.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
This is likely due to many window IDs changing in Helix. Another reason why skins can't be made to be fully compatible with both Helix and Gotham. When Helix gets closer to being finalized (so the skinning engine is no longer changing) I'll work on upgrading my skin to Helix.

Does it not work after giving SU Permissions in skin settings and enabling the menu? If not, that may also be a victim of changed window IDs.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] navigates:
Elmerohueso, I’ve switched to SPMC as well. Last night when I was watching a .ts file on helix, the file would play and stutter after few seconds. I had installed SPMC as a backup and tested that SPMC played all the video files correctly without stutter. And above all, it has the shutdown menu working and your confluence++ skin works perfectly fine as well. So I too switched to SPMC. I changed the lama profiles to launch SPMC on boot and also changed classic tv to load up spmc now instead of xbmc. I use jcola’s abdfire for backup and restore and that does not do spmc.

I did notice that some mkv’s now work well with spmc but freeze up. Is there a setting that I should change like software decoding etc.? I do an audio passthrough to the bose lifestyle.

* PS: Shutdown just reboots the firetv. No big deal. Suspend works very well.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] navigates:
I didn't try that, however with spmc, it works right. Also for adbfire, you can change the XBMC package name in preferences and that will do the backup for spmc as well. :)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
SPMC has Android power controls built in to the app. The XBMC team will likely never accept such changes (as they require root), so I built the functions directly into my skin. So, if using XBMC and Confluence++ (after giviing it SU permissions in skin settings) you're actually using my power commands. If using SPMC, you're using SPMC's power commands.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] navigates:
ok I'm using SPMC with your skin because I like the little orange color on the button highlights and the multiple tiles. I've changed the background to my preference though. I may be seeing your powerdown option since I'm essentially using your skin. The shutdown option should probably not exist as the command just reboots the firetv. I also use your netflix tile extensively. A very good addition indeed. Are you making any new tiles for the other apps out there? not sure which one would I need
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
The skin isn't device specific. The FTV isn't made to be shutdown, since it doesn't have a power button, so the box itself was made to automatically reboot when it's shutdown. On other devices (ie. my phone, OUYA) it does, indeed, shutdown the device.

In the future I might allow you to choose exactly which options to show on the shutdown menu.

It's not really needed now that my Confluence++ skin lets you add favorites as shortcuts. Simply add any app to favorites, then you can add it from there as a home shortcut.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] navigates:
Really. That's neat. Learn something new everyday. The thing now is that I don't have any other favorites to test this out. :) All I needed was netflix, vevo and you had the tiles.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] MadFlava:
Anybody got a mirror for the latest release? Google Drive says its been downloaded too many times and to wait 24 hours.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
I just added a Dev-Host mirror for the v8 release in the first post. I also corrected the listed MD5s (they were backwards, sorry).
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] UsefulDrivel:
MD5

Thanks for the new link, I was finally able to download it.

Question on the MD5 - I'm showing a different one for the v8 download from Dev-Host (84e998f870b7178542d1b8e01c4550d6). Anything I could be doing wrong?

---------- Post added at 09:53 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:09 AM ----------

Nevermind, got another copy and this one matched.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
The MD5 should be ebd85f240253add67197112911ae68f0, as it says on the Dev-Host download page (I just tested it again). Either the download wasn't successful, or you accidentally click one of their "Download" ad links instead of the correct "Download" link (dev-host likes their ads, so I use Ad Block Plus to hide them).

Edit: Just saw your reply.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sont77:
14.0 looking for upgrade

Hey elmerohueso how can i get 14.0 and above with your setup i love it and dont want to mess anything up...:D
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
As Kodi 14 hasn't even entered beta, I've done no testing with it. However, as per the first post, I believe 13.2 will be my final release. There may be updates to my addons, but I will not be building a custom version of XBMC/Kodi 14. Instead, I will personally be using SPMC, (when it hits 14) which is built by Koying of Team-XBMC/Kodi. SPMC has launcher capabilities, like mine, as well as full Android power controls, but also includes device-specific bug fixes (for the FTV and other Android boxes) that don't get accepted into the main XBMC/Kodi project.

AFAIK, all my addons should be compatible with Kodi 14, except for my Confluence++ skin. There have been a lot of changes to the skinning engine in Kodi 14, and there may be more to come, so I'm waiting until it's finalized before updating my skin. Also, the necessary changes will make the skin not backwards compatible with 13.x, so it doesn't make much sense to start updating it now while 13.x still has plenty of life in it.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] navigates:
elmerohueso, your skin works perfectly fine with SPMC. Since its still in Gotham. It would be good once SPMC is upgraded to Kodi, we would still love to have your skin and its touches? :)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] jdpickering:
Buffering Issues

So I just recently bought a Fire TV and rooted it and put on XBMC So after connecting to my SMB share and importing my Movies and TV shows I started watching some. The first things I played were SD and they played without issue however as soon as I tried a bluray rip or a 1080p TV show ever 3 sec its buffering. I've tried wireless and wired with the same result. I've also went to my server to review bandwidth usage. Doesn't matter if its wired or wireless i'm only avg 2.5 Mbps and most i've seen is 3.2 however if I go to the same video file on my laptop and run it i'll pull upwardes 32Mbps. There appears to be something limiting the AFTV to only 3ish Mbps any idea whats going on? I've seen people talk about increasing the cache but not sure whats going on. Any help would be nice thanks.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] brotherandyslb:
Zoom Level

** I figured this one out. Have to change to advance mode to get the zoom option.

I like the ability to be able to use XBMC as my launcer. Thank you.

I only have one issue, I use this on a bedroom TV that can only do 720P and xbmc is to wide for the TV. Normally I would go into System then Appearance and set the Zoom but that option is gone from this XBMC build. What should I try next?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
I've never had issues, but you can check out the XBMC wiki section about the advancedsettings.xml to see how to tweak the buffering and cache size.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Chniko:
Error while installing

Hi,

I'm trying to install XBMC on my FireTV but I have the following error message :

* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *

* daemon started successfully *

connected to 192.168.1.203:5555

1331 KB/s (58919272 bytes in 43.219s)

pkg: /data/local/tmp/xbmc-13.2-Gotham-armeabi-v7a.apk

Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_CONTAINER_ERROR]

Do you have an idea what is going on and how I can solve this issue ?

Thanks !
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Tight_wad:
Are you sure that you have ADB turned on?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Chniko:
Yes I think so, because i'm able to install AutoPilot and Llama.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Chniko:
I fix my issue (error message : Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_CONTAINER_ERROR]).

It was the apk file which was corrupted.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] spyder3:
Why does the Amazon Appstore think that I have compatibility issues with SPMC?

I'm on the last rootable FW.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] mjbxx:
elmerohueso, Please Address This Thread

This thread entitled Uninstalled XBMC but now XBMC launcher app keeps me from accessing KFTV Home has me somewhat concerned. Not sure if this issue is related to your XBMC or SPMC launcher. Is there a way to avoid what happened to the OP in that thread?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
Looks like they're actually using this, which is an extra application that launches XBMC. Seems like, after they uninstalled XBMC, that app is still acting as the home launcher but it can't find XBMC (a bug that app dev has since fixed). His fix would have been to simply uninstall that app via ADB (I see someone told him to reset his box, which was not necessary).

The build of XBMC here has launcher capabilities built in. No extra app needed. When it's uninstalled, the FTV will simply revert to whatever other launcher is installed, which will likely be the FTV launcher.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] jarayn:
Hi, thanks for the work making this up.

You say you are switching to SPMC, I wonder if that includes all the firetv mods you have done, alternate keymap, libstagefright, the ability to add apps as shortcuts etc.

I had a look at it and it seems more generic than yours.

Will you release a modded SPMC perhaps? or a standalone skin .
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] piruzinho:
2nded - your mods seem awesome - is there any reason to switch?

I'm still dying for somebody to fix the volume issue (volume up/down has no impact, but volume amplification weirdly does) - does SPMC fix it?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
The keymaps and splashscreens are available is my FTV Tweaks addon in my repo, as is my Confluence++ skin with the ability to add favorites as shortcuts. It shouldn't be necessary to disable Media Codec any longer, as that bug was reported fixed in 13.2. In SPMC, just install my repo (see first post for link) to get my addons and you should be good.

You can still grab my addons for SPMC. SPMC has a lot more device-specific fixes that XBMC/Kodi does/will, and it's the only version with audio passthrough on the OUYA (which I also have). SPMC is also available in the Google Play Store and Amazon Appstore (still waiting official approval for the FireTV Appstore, though).

I haven't kept up with the volume issue. For me, I kinda hate when it's possible to change the volume on a device *and* the TV/receiver. I just want to worry about changing volume on one device (the receiver), so it's never been an issue I've really worried about. However, I don't know if it's something the can be fixed in SPMC itself or if Amazon simply removed volume control from the FTV (I haven't seen it in any other FTV apps).
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] MarkBP:
Been using your launcher since 13.1 and liked it. Side loaded SPMC a couple of weeks ago and find it is terrific on the Fire TV. I want it to launch when the AFTV Home key is pressed but am unclear as to how to progress. Do I simply want to uninstall 13.1 and the Launcher will seek out my SPMC app? Do I want to uncheck the grant su box prior to uninstalling XBMC?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
Yes, provided you installed the Launcher version of SPMC.

Doesn't really matter.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] tootseroel:
SPMC launcher

OP can you please make a modded SPMC launcher with all the same bells n whistles for the newbs. Would be greatly appreciated. I would donate a little somethin.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Y314K:
Thanks for the best XBMC Launcher package. Great work.

Would love to see a v8 or even better v9 of a [LAUNCHER] SPMC for Fire TV (Root). I can see that it is possible to get one going thru the repo but I think I will just end up missing/messing up one or two of the tweaks/settings and make the SPMC experience a painful one.

What are the chances of a [LAUNCHER] SPMC for Fire TV (Root) before v14 of SPMC gets release ?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] nbaj2k:
Fantastic job with this! I just purchased my FireTV and it's great having this boot straight into XBMC!

I just wondered, is there a way to exit out of this if I want to toggle to go back to the standard Fire TV launcher that comes with the box? I was hoping that hitting exit in xbmc would do the trick, but I guess it always just goes right back to XBMC. I wasn't trying to uninstall the launcher or anything, but was hoping there was a way to just go back to the normal menus in case I wanted to use some stock features.

Could someone just let me know if this is possible or not? I'm a newbie to the Fire TV so any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

-J
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] collindv:
Just add a shortcut (favorite) to the xbmc home screen that points to the amazon launcher (I believe it is in one if elmerhueso's threads). Allows u to switch back and forth with ease.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] mjbxx:
Follow the XBMC/Kodi wiki for adding the AFTV Launcher and other Android Apps on to the home screen via favorites.

6 Launching Android Apps within XBMC

• In Gotham builds, it is possible to launch Android Apps from shortcuts on the main menu.

• It is recommended to use the Confluence skin, go to Programs, then Android Apps and favorite any applications you would like to launch from XBMC.

• Skins like Amber allow you place custom shortcuts on the main menu to these favorite items.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] nbaj2k:
Thanks for the help, that was way too easy to just add a shortcut :)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Sc0rp10:
Great addon. I've been using it since the day I got my firetv.

I updated to spmc 13.3.3 launcher version recently and since then the android power options screensaver wakes up my device every 30 mins. I have set my sleep time to 15 min and the device sleeps fine.

I know the device is up because my tv supports CEC so as soon as firetv wakes up the TV switches from cable to firetv.

Also can anyone tell me whats the difference in power options screensaver and the built in power saving options in Xbmc?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
I've never seen that happen, sorry. Don't know what's waking it up.

Power Options Screensaver goes off the screensaver timer and only kicks off when XBMC is the active app. The Power Saving options are something that only SPMC has for Android. These run off the shut down timer and (unfortunately) will kick off even when XBMC is not the active app. It's not necessary to enable both.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Shinyhead:
Not sure but I read the changelogs for SPMC and they added sleep options for fire tv w/ their latest updates. Could this be a conflict with the power options?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Sc0rp10:
Well i disabled the screen saver and used the built in shutdown options and the device seems to be sleeping fine now. May be you're right about the conflict between the new shutdown timer feature and power options screensaver
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
I looked into this issue some more. I had actually been using SPMC 13.3.2, sorry. It looks like Koying made SPMC 13.3.3 release XBMC's wakelock whenever any XBMC screensaver is activated, as this should allow the FTV's Daydream screensaver to kick in (after another 15 minutes). I *think* the problem is that, after my screensaver puts the FTV to sleep, the FTV's Daydream turns it back on 15 minutes later.

If you're using SPMC 13.3.3, and you're wanting the FTV to be able to sleep, I'd recommend perhaps just using the Dim screensaver. I haven't tested this, but if it works like I'm thinking, SPMC should release the wakelock when the screensaver kicks in (and the screen dims), then the FTV's Daydream mode should kick in after 15 minutes or so, and that should eventually put the FTV to sleep.

BTW - the reason Suspend works in the Power Menu, even though it's using the same command as my screensaver, is that it doesn't release the wakelock, so the FTV's Daydream doesn't try to kick in.

Edit: Setting SPMC to use the "Dim" screensaver after 10 minutes, and setting the FTV's screensaver to 5 minutes seems to work fine. The screen will dim after 10 minutes of being idle, then it goes to sleep about 10 minutes later.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] danknasty:
When ever I activate the xposed module I get weird crashing. With this build my screen on xbmc separated into 6 squares and I just had to uninstall with spmc it just kicks me out to the fire tv home screen or locks up.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Y314K:
Rooted ?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] danknasty:
Yes I'm rooted. Would it even let me run the module if I wasn't rooted?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Y314K:
Probably not but was wondering if what is why it was crashing... What Recovery version and FW are on on.. I know some stuff got broken on the latest PreRooted FW for RBox's mod's... Not sure if related to your bug..
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] danknasty:
I got lucky my box came with one of the box with 51.1.0.1_user_510055620 and I decided just to leave it there and not upgrade after rooting. I do notice when I scroll down to update it constantly says checking for update. Is this normal?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Y314K:
It's normal as long as it doesn't actually start to download something. Did you do the "Disable OTA update" too with one of the apps like AFTV Utility ??? Keep blocking with the router but that is a good second layer of protection..
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] danknasty:
Yea I did ota block and I keep it blocked via router too. I was hoping I'd be able to boot to xbmc consistently. Is there any advantage to upgrading to the latest rootable software
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Y314K:
Well if you where to go with the latest PreRooted FW which means unlocking bootloader & installing CWM too. You would have the new NetFlix & any fixes they included. Also being able to play tablet games on the FTV. Someone is working on a video on how to get it done with the AFTV Utility. Will probably come out tomorrow... Be on the look out for it..
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] danknasty:
Yea this is where it gets a little complicated for me because I followed the rooting directions on this site but I used adbfire. I don't think unlocked anything but I clicked install restore and it seems I have cwm on there. I clicked restart to restore and it took me to that menu does this mean i have it and can load up prerooted firmware?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Y314K:
The way you can check if you have CWM install is plug a keyboard in. (Did you use keyboard to get out of CWM) when you installed it ?? On adbFire File/Reboot Recovery. And that should tell you what you got for recovery. If it's still the stock recovery it will look like this...

www.aftvnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/fire-tv-recovery-mode-options.jpg

If it's CWM it will look like this...

www.aftvnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/rominstall-05a-300x223.jpg

CWM might look a bit different but all CWM's will have CWM in the version & extra options. Write down which version it is. Don't do anything just do a "Reboot System Now" which ever version it was. To get back to the FTV UI. (Wonder if AFTVNews is blocking image linking. Guess it's bandwidth killer...)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] danknasty:
Its definately running cwm it says Recovery v6.0.5.1.3 I am not sure how it got on there since I never really did any steps to install this and when i tried to unlock it in adbfire it says your device was not unlocked. I'm starting to question if mine came from the factory rooted.. lol jk.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Y314K:
Like the Windows Phones that some folks bought & where running Android(Secret internal test build)... :laugh:

You can also check if TowlRoot App is still in the Apps folder in the Apps Menu. Guess you can try the AFTV Utility App & see if that one works for you. If not then you might need to go to the thread about the bootloader unlocker to get some feedback from RBox or read what other problems others have run into... Can it be you already unlocked the bootloader ??
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] danknasty:
Well I'm not sure I installed towel root manually until I noticed adbfire had pretty much all the commands built in so I started to play around with them I clicked root from the adbfire menu after I rooted it manually and let it do whatever it did I'm thinking maybe it auto installs cwm as well. Is the aftv utility app the latest rooting software or is it adbfire? There's so much stuff out there.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Y314K:
Those are the only two apps out there that are kept up to date. All the other methods are manual methods. It's never a good thing to just push buttons without having a road map of where you want to end up. NO idea if adbFire auto installs CWM when you hit root. I know AFTV Utility does not. TowlRoot & SuperSU does get auto installed when you hit root on both apps. Then you have to manually follow thru on a couple of things to root & get SuperSU going...