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[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
I don't know when I'll have time to do this. I have several devices in my shared Kodi network that can't run Jarvis, so updating hasn't really been a priority for me. Sorry.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] tootseroel:
Wondering if I should upgrade to Jarvis. Does fire TV run Jarvis better? Mostly use SALTS, Royal We, and Genesis..
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] wdcspurs:
Someone help me out and fill me in. I have a couple FTVs right now running Kodi. Not Rooted though. What are the advantages to rooting the FTV? Every Android I have ever had I have rooted. So I know the deal for phones and tablets. What does it offer on the FTV though? TIA Private message if need be instead of replying on the thread.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elliwigy:
lol what are the advantages of root on a phone?

one is boot directly to a launcher of your choice instead of to aftv2 default launcher.

When available, custom recovery and potentially xposed framework.

Google apps including the Play Store

Adb over wifi (most require root)

the list goes on.. Play Store alone is huge imo
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] ermacwins:
I bought a firestick few days ago and and installed firestarter and kodi, no root. With what is mentioned in this thread, can I get the firestick to go straight into kodi when its booted up?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elliwigy:
pretty sure you need root and xposed to boot straight into kodi.. i could be wrong however..

firestarter works for me if i double press home but single press home stillloads fire os stock launcher.

this is my first fire tv however so maybe a more seasoned fire tv user can correct me if im wrong
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] djnikkofb:
negative.. sideload the app firestarter. apk, and than program the app..
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Skater4599:
Does anyone have the jarvis release with launcher intent?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] mjbxx:
Try XBMC Launcher. Been working for me since Isengard on a rooted 1st Gen Fire TV.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Skater4599:
Never knew that app existed, ill try it out. Thanks
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] danknasty:
Are you guys going to make a signed launcher of version 16? Sorry if I"m being impatient I just rooted my first 2nd gen.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] robfab1502:
Jarvis Launcher?

Any plans to build a Jarvis Launcher?

~thx
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] danknasty:
I just said that above you.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Skater4599:
The OP has stated several posts back he won't be updating this exact mod or his confluence++ skin to Jarvis v16 release since he has many devices that can't run it.

But if anyone would be willing to compile/post a link for the Jarvis 16 release only with launcher intent it would be greatly appreciated!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] danknasty:
What is he alternative I tried the Xbmc launcher it really doesn't work well. Also it does not allow me to make the Amazon homescreen as a shortcut in Kodi anymore.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Skater4599:
Well, the keymaps and splashscreens and such can all be loaded seperately, but the confluence++ skin we lose and the kodi with launcher intent could still be installed (so it works with rbox xposed module still) But we would need someone who knows how to compile kodi with launcher intent changes, I have no idea how or I would do it :(
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] danknasty:
Not to be a **** but why can't this guy just do it lol.... Can we form a kickstarter campaign.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] xenyz:
There is a build of Jarvis with updated librtmp that has a launcher version available at http://bit.ly/SCLibrtmp
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Skater4599:
Thanks for this!!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] danknasty:
Thanks bro I was ready to start a Kickstarter campaign.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] danknasty:
I still can't make Amazon a homescreen icon for some reason. Anyone else having this.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Skater4599:
If you're reffering to the icons under the bar on the home page, that was an addition to the confluence ++ skin. Default confluence doesnt allow android apps only add ons and limited to 5 instead of 7.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] danknasty:
I was able to do it with different skins such as eminence but now it won't show up.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] zspeciman:
Perhaps someone here can help me. I've been using firetv both 1st and 2nd gen with the amazing elmerohueso ftv-tweak. I use keymap 3. In the past xbmc 13, kodi 14 the video would stop play with the back key. That doesn't work on kodi 15.2 anymore. Does anyone know if it works on the new kodi 16 jarvis? Is there a way to make this work without rooting the device? Would an adb push command work on a nonrooted device? Thank you.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] tootseroel:
Does anyone know which rbox xposed version works with jarvis?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
Life's been really crazy. Development computer is on it's last leg. XDA hasn't been sending me notifications for this thread. Lots of excuses.

I really don't have much time to be maintaining all this, and I do apologize to any of you I've inconvenienced. But I have put together a present for you guys. A Python script that will decompile an APK, modify its intent to act as a Launcher, then recompile the APK. No guarantees on this one, and things could blow up if intent strings don't match up in the future, but hopefully some find it helpful.

Requirements:

Windows PC

Python 3.x (tested with 3.5.1)

Java JRE (tested with 8u74)

A Kodi APK (tested with Kodi 16.0 ARM APK)

Download and unzip MakeKodiLauncher.zip

Put the desired Kodi APK in the extracted "in" folder

Run MakeKodiLauncher.py

When prompted, enter the full name (with extension) of the APK you placed

Let script decompile the APK and insert Launcher intent

(Optional) When the script pauses, make further modifications to APK source files in "temp" folder (ie. insert skins, addons, etc)

Let script recompile and sign the APK

Find newly signed APK in the "out" folder
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] piruzinho:
Wow thats pretty amazing! I have to admit I am a little nervous, but it seems great. Whats the worst that could happen?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
Possible outcomes:

It doesn't run at all (probably due to missing dependencies and/or environment variables)

It fails to decompile/recompile/sign your APK (probably due to differences in Android API levels)

The APK it spits out doesn't have Launcher intent (probably due to it not finding the strings it's trying to replace)

It works and makes the Launcher

So, usual "use at your own risk. I only take responsibility if it works :D".

Just make sure you keep the files together, and don't put anything in the "temp" folder that you don't mind having deleted.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Skater4599:
[MENTION=3244446]elmerohueso[/MENTION] - Thanks for this script/tool to add launcher intent! This will be a great tool!

I will definitely miss your repo and confluence++ skin, but it looks like with Kodi 17 the new default skin will provide a way without shortcuts anyway and now we have a tool to make our own launcher intent. Thanks for all your work on this
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] o_mas:
Tested with SPMC-armeabi-v7a_16.1.1.apk and works great :good:

Thanks!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] piruzinho:
o_mas can you post your results somewhere?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sirxdroid:
Are there still advantages to using SPMC vs plain Kodi?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Skater4599:
Here is a launcher version of SPMC 16.1.1 from Koying. This was made using Elmerhueso's script/tool. everything is untouched except its added launcher intent.

https://www.mediafire.com/?04rz4bp3ja78br3
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sirxdroid:
I thought SPMC already came in a launcher form, is that no longer the case?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Skater4599:
So far since it's came back to development 16.1.1 does not have a launcher version. The play store version is not default to launcher intent anymore. I think Koying will compile a launcher version for 16.2 and up but so far there is not a launcher version for download from spmc site.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] onsoku:
elmerohueso - Any idea why the keymaps no longer work in Jarvis? I really miss reviewing the codec overlay and swapping out the startup screen!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] bula1ca:
SPMC v16 is signed different then SPMC v15. Can SPMC 16.1.1 be re-signed to replaced SPMC 15 and not have to move all data manually? Thank you
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] mjbxx:
SPMC 16.1.2 has been released today and it offers a new Launcher version that works extremely well.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] danknasty:
I forget what is the advantage to spmc. I thought after version 15 everything was pretty much the same.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] mjbxx:
The biggest advantage is that an official Kodi developer, [MENTION=397727]Koying[/MENTION], will be maintaining SPMC. There is currently no Android developer within Kodi at this time as [MENTION=397727]Koying[/MENTION] removed himself due to infighting with other team members. Plus, can't beat the current SPMC Launcher and [MENTION=397727]Koying[/MENTION]'s personal Android expertise going forward. This is huge for Fire TV users in knowing any issues arising will be dealt with appropriately.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] piruzinho:
Question is, can I instal SPMC over [MENTION=2544479]elmerh[/MENTION] XMBC launcher install and keep my settings, etc?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] jpeg42:
Just install SPMC and copy over the userdata folder
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] mjbxx:
Should also copy the Addon folder from Kodi to SPMC as well.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] mrchrister:
i really miss the ability to start android apps from within kodi. When I try to install Confluence++ in Jarvis it tells me that the xbmc.gui dependency is not met. if I manually edit addon.xml to change xbmc.gui it results in an error. Is there another way to launch Android apps from within Kodi?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] knalbone:
I use the amber skin. It allows you to favorite Android apps and add your favorites to your home screen.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] mrchrister:
thanks! i'll give that a try!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] danknasty:
Any kodi 16.1 launcher released yet? Also i've noticed that spmc is failing all the updates for addons when I initially load my build does anyone else get that? I've also just had exodus spontaneously removed from my box with spmc.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
Nope, but first post has instructions and a script to make your own.

Kodi had a blog post recently about some rouge addons uninstalling other addons.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] jpeg42:
That was really awesome for you to take the time to post those instructions. Thank you!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] tselling:
I changed addon.xml to get Confluence++ working. I changed the line to read:

<import addon="xbmc.gui" version="5.10.0"/>

Seems to be working ok for me. Is that what you did?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] mrchrister:
thanks, but I'm now using the firetv theme
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] ks-man:
I've been running this version of XBMC on my First gen rooted Fire TV for around two years. I want to upgrade to 16.1 of Kodi and it seems that the best thing to use is SPMC. I'd like to have the Launcher version (this version of XBMC is my default launching app via XPosed and RBOX's methods).

If I just install the Launcher version of SPMC will these two processes conflict? How do I tell the Fire TV what to launch if two things have those rights? I was thinking I would first install SPMC and confirm everything was working before uninstalling Elmero's version of XBMC. Thanks.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] iLLNiSS:
Any chance MakeKodiLauncher is going to be updated? It doesn't seem to work on newer builds:

https://pastebin.com/Dq2HLJqw

The malformed PNGs isn't whats causing it as when removed it does not complain about them, but it does still throw an error about the public symbols not being defined.

Kinda sucks because this is the only reliable way to auto start kodi and map to home on rooted boxes :(
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] digitalhalo:
does anyone have a copy of AndroidFileHost: signed-launcher-kodi-15.2-Isengard-armeabi-v7a.apk as its not longer on the site, and 16.0 doesnt run as well as 15.2 IMO
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
It's been a while, but I made a launcher version of 18.5 using this script. I put the 18.5 APK I'm using with my past versions at https://androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=17034.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] TimmyP:
What does the home button do? Im not rooted but have LauncherHijack installed with home button functionality (returns me to my custom launcher), what would it do in Kodi? Nothing? Would is be programmable?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] justinlarsen:
I have 16.0 running via LauncherHiJack, but I recently rooted a FireTV2 what would I need todo to get it working on there with all its power. I just want the firetv to boot into Kodi, and the Home Button to goto Kodi, just the little things.

---------- Post added at 03:52 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:48 PM ----------

You are the best!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] justinlarsen:
the 32bit versions dont work on the 64bit firetv 2. If I gave you a donation would you compile the new version with the 64bit launcher?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
This is fixed in newer versions of apktool. Download the newest apktool and overwrite the apktool.jar in the resources folder (same file name).
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
I don't have an FTV2, but try this one out I just compiled.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zy73HNbtvGza-Pwx2Mi8tLUP89WBt2RH/view?usp=sharing

Edit: AndroidFileHost download - https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=4349826312261680816
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] iLLNiSS:
Thanks for the reply!

It's been a while but it seems I get a new error.

This happens as soon as I initially hit enter, it does not prompt me for the filename.

Python 3.6.3

Java 1.8.0_231
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] justinlarsen:
Thanks! I just got back from the holidays and about to test it out. I'll let you know how it goes. I have still yet to get launcher status on the firetv2 but LauncherHijacker shows it as such which is a good sign as thats how I have my firetv1 setup running 16.0. I dont want to mess with that setup as its working flawlessly, outside of some stutter on higher bitrate encodes.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] ChronoWerX:
Any chance for 18.6?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] ChronoWerX:
I become every time

Edit: [MENTION=3244446]elmerohueso[/MENTION] can you help? Want Kodi 18.6 to use
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] joel51100:
KODI et Osmand

hello, I would like to test KODI on Android 9 ,

I can not understand how to launch Osmand (gps browser) which is on Android and that works,

with the browser button of Kodi, I try RunAddon (osmand),

if you have an idea

THANK YOU

bonjour, Je voudrais tester KODI sous Android 9 ,

je n'arrive pas a comprendre comment lancer Osmand(navigateur gps) qui se trouve sur Android et qui fonctionne,

avec le bouton Navigateur de Kodi, j'ai essayer RunAddon(osmand),

si vous avez une idée

MERCI
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] joel51100:
bonjour

je répond a ma question

StartAndroidActivity("net.osmand.plus") dans clic action button

Hello

I answer my question

StartAndroidActivity ("net.osmand.plus") in click action button

have a nice week end

merci
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] cstark27:
Been using this but going to have to disable it for now.

Here are my notes while using the Put Device to Sleep:

When XBMC is in the background (playing a Netflix video/in a different app), XBMC still activates the screensaver function, which causes the screen to black out.

My TV/Receiver turns on when I wake up the FireTV, so if I turn off the TV before XBMC screensaver happens, the TV turns back on.

When entering back into XBMC after the screensaver has activated, you must press back/another button to 'wake up' XBMC/remove the black screen.

I know most, if not all, of those complaints are probably due to XBMC itself, but let me know if you have seen/fixed these issues. Thanks!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
I just watched a full movie on Netflix while XBMC was in the backgroud, with the screensaver set to sleep the device after 15 minutes. I didn't have any interruptions. Did the screen blank out, did the device go to sleep, or did your TV just turn of (CEC)? I'll see if I it's possible to check if XBMC is the active app before the screensaver kicks off, but AFAIK that's how XBMC's screensaver should work anyway.

Your CEC controls see the Power signal turning off the box and intepret it as a Power signal to turn on. I'll see if it's possible to disable CEC when the screensaver kicks off, but I'm not sure if that can be done from XBMC. Personally, I hate CEC. With all the devices I have connected, CEC turns everything into a clusterf***, so I disable it.

I've seen this, but I'm not sure what causes it. It might even be inherent of the FTV. If the FTV goes to sleep on its own, does it act the same way?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] cstark27:
It puts the FireTV to sleep, I can see the toast message shortly before with the command button_power_off, or something like that. I will verify that it happens when a movie is playing in Netflix, but I think I did test that. I know it goes to sleep when Netflix is just idling, for sure. One thing to note is I don't have SuperSU set to hide toasts or to always allow root. Let me know if your settings there differ. Basically, I have the default SuperSU settings.

I will give disabling my TV's CEC a second thought. I think the only thing that uses it is my FireTV and my almost obsolete bluray player.

One thing I noticed about the black screen in XBMC, was that if the device woke up with Netflix as the active application then I opened XBMC (by pressing Home), it would still have the black screen. I think it's more a problem with XBMC because it acts the same with the dim screensaver (meaning, I go back into XBMC and it's still dim). So, I guess your screensaver almost blanks the screen...perhaps directly or indirectly?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
My SU settings are default, too, but I have given XBMC persistent root. Let me know if you see this in Netflix, an what other apps you see it in. I'm still trying to figure out if XBMC itself can determine if it's the active app.

I actually don't even make a call to blank the screen. I simply send a Power button keypress. I'm guessing XBMC itself would have to be changed in how it determines when to wake up. I've just gotten used to double-tapping a direction button to wake the FTV.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] ltcKeith:
XPrivacy for more better control

I do hope you will bundle XPrivacy for XPosed Framework :) Maybe there will be a custom Tasker build for Fire TV. I do, however, adore Llama, too.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] leftygeo:
help with rboxfiretvmods

I am trying to click or check the box in the modules section of the xposed app. I have tried everything, and can't get it. I apologize as i am a newbie and just trying to install the custom launcher xbmc on my fire. Thanks in advance.

George
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] cstark27:
Ok. So...I have been using the very first "FireTV" build from Koying from April because it has been working. I updated to 13.1 and don't see the FireTV getting turned off when playing a Netflix video now, nor is the screensaver activating when another app is active. Sorry about the fuss. :o
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
No worries. I'd been going kind of crazy trying to duplicate the issue, so I'm glad it's working.

I looked into the CEC thing and CEC seems to be controlled by the FTV itself, so I couldn't find a way to disable it when Power is called. In any case, I just published an update to the Android Power Control screensaver to allow you XBMC to simply log off, but not put the device to sleep with the Power call.

I also did some testing to with the issue of requiring 2 buttons to wake XBMC, and it seems to be an issue between sleep vs. deep sleep. If the device is simply sleeping, I could wake it with just a single button press. If I wait a few minutes after sleeping it goes into deep sleep and takes 2 button presses to wake.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] rbox:
So I looked into the CEC code in the kernel, and I think with a custom kernel anything is possible. What exactly do you want to disable?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] hmagoo:
that might explain why my Fire TV notifies me that the battery in the remote is nearly dead, after one month. It is running XBMC a lot and doesn't sleep, I will have to get your version up and running!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Hrodriguez77:
I seem to be having a problem when using the power screen saver. It goes to sleep like it's supposed to, but after about 20 - 30 minutes, the light on the FTV comes back on. The screen is black and only requires one button press for xbmc to pop back up, which I'm guessing means it is not asleep since it normally requires two button presses to respond. Anyone else having this issue?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
I was wanting to temporarily disable CEC when the Android Power Options screensaver kicks off, so less-smart devices wouldn't interpret the FTV's power off signal as telling them to power on. The example noted above shows that, if their TV is already off when the Android Power Options screensaver sends the virtual Power keypress to put the FTV to sleep, the TV turns back on.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
I haven't had that. My FTV sleeps soundly through the night. Do you maybe have the FTV settings or another app waking the device, maybe to sync Amazon content?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Hrodriguez77:
Not that I know of. I disabled all my llama events to make sure it wasn't interfering with it sleeping, but it still wakes. I'll try to troubleshoot it further to see if anything is running in the background.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
Do you use Amazon Prime video? If so, could it be the FTV's "ASAP" service that's supposed to automatically download/cache shows that it thinks you'll watch?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] rbox:
It would probably be possible to create a /proc setting to control CEC. I'll look at the code tonight. I may put out a custom kernel with a few tweaks I'm collecting including this one.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] KillerJoeBR:
Ooooohhh now i'm anxious!! Stop teasing us ??

Enviado de meu GT-N7100 usando Tapatalk
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Hrodriguez77:
Yes I do have amazon prime. I didnt realize this happens while its sleeping. Is there any way to turn it off other than not registering with a prime membership?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] ~Craig~:
Thanks for the hard work on this.

I will be getting my FireTV next week so after setup and rooting if I installed this and for some reason did not like it (Beyond unlikely :D) would it just be a simple case of uninstalling the .apk and at boot it would revert back to stock?

Craig
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
Yes. Or even just disable the Xposed module and this XBMC build would just be treated as a normal app.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
I don't know. Sorry.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] rbox:
So I had some time to look through the HDMI driver. This might disable CEC:

echo 0 > /sys/devices/virtual/graphics/fb0/cec
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] elmerohueso:
Cool. I updated the code to disable CEC, send Power (sleep), then re-enable CEC. I'll try to package it up tonight. I don't actually have CEC on my TV, so [MENTION=2712580]cstark27[/MENTION] would you be able to test this for me?

Edit: Could [MENTION=2712580]cstark27[/MENTION], or anyone using FTV's CEC to control their TV, please test script.screensaver.sleepandroid-1.3.zip? Expected functionality is that using "Sleep Device" option in the screensaver will still put the FTV to sleep, but will not trigger power on/off on your TV via CEC. After FTV is awoken again CEC should be re-enabled.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Jnickell100:
Might be a dumb question but how do you install this? Don't see instructions. I currently have xbmc installed on aftv. Do I need to delete it first? Thanks in advance.