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[Fire TV Themes and Apps] E--Man:
Is there any future of getting home button detection with rbox's newer OS5 ROOTED ROMS? Not sure what is preventing an implementation of this with root and/or Xposed..... Thanks.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Y314K:
As long as your device is ROOTED there is now:

I heard about XPosed Edge Pro from the Playing with Fire Mod. And after someone asked the same ? over a dozen times (SrTommy) over @ AFTVNews.com. I decided to test one of the XPosed modules in reguards to key remapping & auto boot. Glad I finally did. Will quote my posts over @ AFTVNews.com here. Since I don't want to have to re-write them. Plan to do a pic walk thru later today explaining what few settings I change to get the desired mods.

Bottom line. If you have ROOT, you no longer are stuck with FireOS 5..0.5 because of FireStarter. You can also upgrade to AppStarter & get the same features thanks to XPosed Edge Module.

New Pre-Rooted ROMs for the Fire TV 1, 2, and Stick have just been released

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NOTE: shwru980r just posted that his FireStarter started working (auto started after reboot) again in the latest FW update. Seems it might of been taken off the blacklist of apps. Not sure if it's temporary & if any of the ADB base options are working again too or not. Just a heads up.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Y314K:
Did a little walk-thru:

https://xdaforums.com/fire-tv/themes-apps/firestarter-appstarter-boot-key-mapping-t3631945
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] lennie paz:
I have an older version of Firestarter on my rooted Fire TV. When I'm at the Firestarter Home Screen, and click on Fire TV Settings, the settings screen opens for a couple seconds, and then goes back to the Firestarter Home Screen. Does anyone know what's wrong?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] DerNetzreporter:
is it possible to add a shortcut to search prime video stuff from the AppStarter?

I dont want to switch back to the FireTV Stick launcher, to watch the prime exclusive videos.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] ultimatetechnews:
dd

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https://www.ultimate-tech-news.com/...-kodi-firestick-2017-ultimate-trick100-works/
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sterno2:
appstarter

will there be a release for the 3 gen fire tv ?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sterno2:
would be nice if it went to appstarter after coming out of sleep
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sterno2:
would like to remove text labels also
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Skick3:
Die Updateroutine für Kodi Nightly Builds findet die apk Dateien nicht mehr

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The Update-Mechanism dosent workt für Kodi Nightly Builds anymore. The Path for the apk Files are wrong.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] vishnumrao:
How do I set AppStarter as the default launcher? When I reboot, Amazon's fugly home shows up! Is there anything special to be done to set AppStarter to start on a reboot?

Installed v4.0 on a fully updated Gen 1 firetv stick.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] killerz298:
Enjoy! https://xdaforums.com/fire-tv/general/noroot-boot-appstarter-t3616824
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] vishnumrao:
Thanks. That worked.

Only thing that does not work is the "press home button" to go to appstarter. mine goes straight to the Amazon launcher.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] DarrenHill:
If you look in the official (built-in) Kodi repo there's an Android installer add-on (by Lunatixz) which allows you to do updates from within Kodi itself. That should perhaps be a viable alternative?

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=322783
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] xhostluv:
Latest release v4.0 i have seen is old... can someone revive this product and update this ! can someone customize this to show leanback icons instead of simple icons ???

[IMG="appstarter"]https://i.imgur.com/zGeMPuS.png[/IMG]

[IMG="appstarter"]https://i.imgur.com/bGQZMaq.png[/IMG]

https://i.imgur.com/zGeMPuS.png
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] xhostluv:
can someone customize this to show leanback icons instead of simple icons ???
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] DESASTER75:
Hi guys!

- brand new stick

- FireStarter, Kodi 17.6 and Build installed

Qs:

How am I able to ...

a) ... get Kodi to TV-sticks mainpage (to avoid the step to start FireStarter first)

b) ... get Kodi-Build-logo to TV-sticks mainpage

c) ... get Kodi-Build startend while booting TV-Stick

d) ... get that Homebutton-thing working again (2x Build and 1x regulär Stick-Menü [or vise versa])

Thx
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Michajin:
a and b; I have found launcher the app from amazons launcher gets the Kodi app into recents (long press home button, scroll to kodi)

c and d; here is a link how to install alternate launchers with home button mods.

https://xdaforums.com/fire-tv/development/app-leanback-launcher-fire-tv-t3750451

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Launcher hijack;

https://xdaforums.com/amazon-fire/general/launcher-root-launcher-hijack-v2-t3561026
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] :
Can you even change icon packs on this launcher?

and can i disable ADB after i have installed it?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] urbanman2004:
Such a nifty tool to update Kodi on the fly. Thanks OP
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] dazbear71:
Lost side menu :o/

**Solved - found you just go to any app icon in the left column and then click left again**

I have switched off the side menu, but also hidden the AppStarter app.....how do I now get into the AppStarter settings?

Any ideas?

Thanks
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] francescof,francescof:
Dear sir, i find very good AppStart 4.0 on Basic Fire Tv Stick (Italy), but now how can I do to use "duplicate screen"? i cant use long press home botton, it doesnt work yet. Thank you in advance.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] dcol:
Has anyone figured out how to get the prime app in the AppStarter launcher? Also, would be nice if you could use your own image for an app on the launcher.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Michajin:
Did you look into the settings? unless i am missing your question...

AppStarter settings - Select Show system apps... then hide all the other stuff you don't want

AppStarter Settings - Wallpaper / Background image.. Select the image....
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Nomand:
First of all THANK YOU for your amazing launcher! (y)

I have only one question about AppStarter, is it possible to change color of selected icon box from yellow to neutral grey/white and maybe give that box little bit more rounded corners?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] eXOBeX:
Sideloaded apps stay. Apps from the Amazon Store disappear.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
v2.7

New release is ready for you to install. This time with a little redesign and many nice features.. Tell me how you like it!

v2.7

Little redesign of the GUI

Added date & time information at top

Made the app-icons a little bit smaller (5 apps per row and still big enough)

Added customizable icon-size in settings

Added possibility to export / import settings

Added more informations to the system-tab

Added possibility to modify the time of no action till the FireTV goes to sleep

Added possibility to go directly to sleep (little hack, setting the time-to-sleep to a very short value and set it back after wake-up)

NOTES:

Be carefull with the go-to-sleep feature, only tested it on FireTV not on FireTV-Stick. Advanced users give me feedback if it works please :).

The setting of the general time of no action till FireTV goes to sleep is safe to use. It is a default Android-Setting which can be edited by apps (I don't understand why Amazon isn't giving us this feature..).

Hit THANKS button if you like it! :)

Or buy me a cup of coffee, donation-link on GitHub​
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] zahni71:
The first test was finished successful with version 2.7 on Fire TV. Thanks for your work.

Gesendet von meinem SM-G900F mit Tapatalk
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] BBLT:
This is awesome, great UI and great updates. Works like a treat
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] dk1keith:
Great update. App just gets better and better.

thanks for a great app
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] eXOBeX:
Brilliant! Even the list of hidden apps is exported and imported.

EDIT: Wallpaper gets zipped up too, even better! :D

I don't think there's much else you could add now, you've succeeded in making FiredTVLauncher, Llama and Ikono TV obsolete in one fell swoop and you're STILL adding more functionality.

Here are some suggestions, in decreasing order of usefulness:-

Scrolling names for over-length app names, either when the app is highlighted or scroll all oversized ones simultaneously.

If connected to a wired network show the WiFi/WLAN Name as "Wired connection" instead of 0x.

Option for displaying as "Icons only", "Icons & Names" (the current view) or "App list".

Option to auto-hide the Apps/System/Updates/Settings menu, revealing it as an overlaid menu with a mouse move to the far-left or a click to the left of the leftmost icons. A move to the right or mouse-move out of the menu's footprint would shift it off to the side again.

If anyone wishes to automate the import of a configuration, here's how to do it using ADB's keypad emulation capability. The commands here move left (it does this 4 times in case FireStarter is slow to kick in), down to the bottom (settings), right, down 20 places (to the bottom of the settings menu, 14 would do but it does 20 just in case), then the centre button to select the Import feature.

adb shell am start -n de.belu.firestarter/.gui.MainActivity

adb push -p FireStarterBackup.zip /sdcard/FireStarterBackup.zip

adb shell input keyevent 21

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[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
Thank you all for your positive feedback :)

[MENTION=6759744]eXOBeX[/MENTION]

Haha, backup-import-automation, you have funny ideas! But sounds useful for new installations.. Little tip: with "adb shell sleep x" you can let your script sleep x seconds instead of do something multiple times ;)

E.g. to sleep 5 seconds use:

adb shell sleep 5
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] eXOBeX:
Excellent, that'll save a few clicks :)

I've configured a few Fire TVs that are over an hour's drive away, being able to do the whole lot by TeamViewering to a local PC is the aim. Once the end user's enabled ADB and unknown sources, then launched TeamViewer, I can do the rest from here. Apps, Kodi config, FireStarter, the lot. For AFTVs that I've already set up in the past I can now automatically tear out the old Ikono/Llama/FiredTV setup and replace with a fully-configured FireStarter, all they have to do is run TeamViewer to let me in.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] kadac00:
Suggestions

1. Some way of creating user named grouping or categorizing of apps such as folders, for example so i can put all my games together, tv apps together, music , etc.

2. Option for sorting apps alphabetically, by install date, or by date last accessed in either accending or descending order.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
I really know this TeamViewing - Setup configuration, did the same with my sisters FireTV Stick :D

Thank you for your ideas!

I also thought about folders but it's a lot of work.. So we will see if I find the time to do this.. For the sorting options I have to find out which information I can get from the system and which information must be collected by me, the alphabetical ordering should be anyway no problem, I put it on my ToDo ;)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] baileyjr:
Awesome app, only discovered it yesterday and couldn't live without it now.

I hope you don't mind if I suggest a feature. It would be good if you could only access the menu's, other than the app launcher, buy pressing the menu button. At the moment you can push left and enter the menu's. Its fine for us xda type people, but regular users and kids can do it accidentally and screw the settings up or not know how to get back to the main app launcher section.

Once again love the app :)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] stepdierc:
I'm having some overscan issues, the time and date are going off the screen, is there any way I can adjust that? It's the FireTV Stick on a 720p Samsung TV.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] eXOBeX:
It'd be worth checking the settings on the TV. Go through the aspect ratio options, you may find that the TV is zooming the picture in slightly and causing the problem. A friend's Samsung did this and I've also seen it on Samsung LCD presentation monitors.

If this fixes it, don't forget to go back into the Fire TV's Display menu and reset the scaling back to zero.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] stepdierc:
Thanks, I changed the scaling in the Fire TV's Display menu and that fixed it, didn't have to touch the TV settings. Sorry, I didn't know that existed.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] eXOBeX:
There appears to be a bug in the wallpaper selector. What I'm seeing is:-

Choose wallpaper: folders are shown, files are not

Choose a subfolder

Go back to the previous folder: both folders and files are now shown.

Also, I don't know if drop-shadowing is easy to implement, it may make text easier to read against lighter parts of the wallpaper.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] fsi09:
I set FireStarter to home button one click but sometime if I press home button once I can see FireStarter launcher for some milliseconds but then it starts amzon launcher. I tried jump back but it didn't helped me. Can anyone help me ? Sorry for my bad english
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Y314K:
Got to seconded this two requests.... Would make this great launcher replacement just about perfect...

Really hope you find the time... And since folders are a basic part of the Android OS.. I hope it is a bit easier to port over... Really appreciate your work...

I have used FiredTV & tried other Android Launcher's in the past.. But your solution is just to good to for a FireTV... Thanks for all the hard work & for sharing... :good:
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
I can confirm the bug, will fix it in the next release! Will also check the text shadow feature perhaps as option in settings.. Thank you for your feedback!

Sounds really like this jumpback-thing, is it on FireTV-Box or FireTV-Stick? Is it a special scenario you can describe further when this happens? What exactly have you set as jumpback-time, other timings?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] fsi09:
[MENTION=3172973]sphinx02[/MENTION]

I am using the FireTV Stick

I have deleted the user data of your app, now I'm using the standard settings and it jumps back to FireStarter :)

But every time I press home button it jumps for some milliseconds to amazon launcher and then to FireStarter but that's not a big problem.

Standard settings: jump back 5000, doppel click 500
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] eXOBeX:
Another icing-on-the-cake option: point FireStarter at a folder full of background wallpapers and let it randomly switch between them. I've attached a folder full of examples to this message. The first file came from http://www.1wallpaperhd.com/2014/07/3d-art-wallpapers-hd-05.html, the rest are from me swapping the colour channels around in Photoshop. Interesting when your desktop background randomly fades between them :)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] g4rb4g3:
[MENTION=3172973]sphinx02[/MENTION]

Thank you for creating an app from my idea! I sold my FireTV last year since streaming was not possible in Austria. A few weeks later Amazon allowed streaming in Austria too. Since yesterday I have a Prime account and I thought about getting a Fire TV stick. And now I found your app. So cool what you made! Thanks alot!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
I am happy to hear, that everything is working again :) the short flashing of the default-launcher is normal behaviour which (without root) I can not stop..

Sounds nice, but I think there are other things that have more priority... Anyway I note it down, thanks for your idea :)

Hey [MENTION=1912014]g4rb4g3[/MENTION] nice to hear from you! Yes it was indeed your posting that lead me to the home-button detection like the App is using it now :)

Hope you get a FireTV and check it out again, this time with the App ;)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] pixapatela:
Hi.

Would it be possible to make the sleep function work when on kodi?

thx for your work! =)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] fsi09:
You mean e.g. with double home click ? That would be nice :)

You can long press home button and select sleep mode
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
No, thats not possible as Kodi itself blocks actively the sleep-mode (which is needed because the FireTV should not go to sleep while you are watching movies with Kodi). Bad thing is, that Kodi blocks the sleep-mode the whole time and not only when movies are running..

Instead I recommend the way fsi09 has already posted:
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] pixapatela:
This seems to work on spmc fork, but not on kodi 14.2, think it is implemented in kodi 15 beta.

After x minutes of inactivity in spmc, it enters sleep.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Terry T:
sphinx02, i just bought a FireTV box to set up for someone else and installed Firestarter: simply awesome. It really takes the AFTV from a good box to the best I have ever used. Thanks for all the hard work.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] g4rb4g3:
I did it :) It's just the FireTV stick this time but it works pretty good.

Yesterday I just used the stock apps, today I installed your launcher and Kodi.

You did a great job! I just use one click for stock amazon app and double click for kodi since the waf has to be on a high level. ;)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] puppinoo:
Hi,

Testing this menu (pretty happy firedtv user so far).

App is great. I just don't need the side menù to be visible all the time. Can it be disabled and enabled with context menù so I have more space for icons?

Thanks.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
v2.7.1

The new version brings support for two new languages and some bug-fixes..

v2.7.1

Added russian and ukranian translations (any other language contributions are welcome). Thx to XDA user sem_top7 for the translations!

Fixed bug in file selector (no image files found in root-folder)

Fixed (hopefully) bug in manual language selection which sometimes lead to a mixed language

Hit THANKS button if you like it! :)

Or buy me a cup of coffee, donation-link on GitHub​
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] filnirv:
Hi

Many thanks for your great work. Do you know a android apk mouse and keyboard that work with fireStarter for mobile phone?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
At the moment there are no plans to remove the side-bar. It is a default navigation element (see original amazon home launcher) and it is possibly extended in future. It provides easy navigation which is not hided behind any shortcuts or movements..

This question is offtopic.. Anyway you can check out the official FireTV-App of Amazon (it's in Google PlayStore), which provides navigation + keyboard. Don't know if there is also something which provides a mouse functionality.. 1 minute of googling brings up this one, dont know if it works..

Best regards :)
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] nero12:
Guys i need some help here.

I am trying to download my backup file for firestarter, and i did a

adb pull /storage/emulated/0/the actual zip file ./YourBackup

but this line did not help :( i believe its protected or something

How do we take the backup physically ?

also i have another question

How do i restore the config files directly to the device, so for example something like that

adb push ./backup/files/firestarter/myphysicalbackup/ /sdcard/android/data/com.something.firestarter/files/.foldersandfiles

what is the correct line ?

The idea is to make the installation process simple so i can just run two lines and firestarter is installed + all custom config applied.

if someone could tell me the physical location of the install files that should be enough

like for example for SPMC its: /sdcard/android/data/com.semperpax.spmc/files/.spmc/
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] lowbee:
[MENTION=3172973]sphinx02[/MENTION] Great update.. I have a feature request: Can you put the uptime info (time since last reboot) on the system info tab ?

I am using a sideloaded app to give me that info and it would be nice if the uptime info is integrated in your system info tab. Thanks
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] MS79:
Thank you for this nice app.

Can you please add folders for sorting apps to groups.

Markus
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
Via adb, the storage is mounted at /sdcard/ not at /storage/emulated/0/. That means your pull-command has to be:

adb pull /sdcard/Backup.zip ./MyLocalBackupFolder/

Check this post http://xdaforums.com/fire-tv/themes...cement-app-t3118135/post61803807#post61803807 as [MENTION=6759744]eXOBeX[/MENTION] is exactly doing what you want to do, I'm sure he also will help you in case...

Thank you for your idea, will put it on my TODO list :)

Folders are already on my TODO, see http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=61825384&postcount=114

Best regards
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] nero12:
Great! thanks alot!!!!!! works superb!!!!
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] rnscotch:
Fantastic app so thanks for that, i have a small query i've had a look through the thread but i can't see anything pertaining to my problem. Is it normal that the back button no longer functions when i have this installed? or have i missed something?
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Gullveig:
Just a quick thanks for the app,it's working great for me.

one request feature i have : is it possible to detect another buttons double press to open other apps ? if not possible maybe a triple press option. ?

Thanks
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] eXOBeX:
The back button should work within apps, but from the FireStarter menu it won't go "back" any further.

On mine a single Home press throws me back to Amazon world, a double press (or a reboot) brings up FireStarter.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
As [MENTION=6759744]eXOBeX[/MENTION] already mentioned, in the App the back-button is not used to close the App. The back-button (aswell as the menu-button, play-/pause-button, ..) are buttons that are controlled by the app itself and each app can decide what to do when the button is pressed.. As the App shall be a launcher replacement, the back-button does not close the App (as the back button does not close any launcher..).

A triple press is in theory possible, but I wont implement it, see http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=61314341&postcount=66 . I already played around with play-/pause- button, but there are no working results at the moment, here the main-problem is, that these buttons also have default-actions like play/pause a movie which I can not easily suppress (even if in theory I can detect double-clicks on them).

Best regards
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] Terry T:
sphinx02, it would be pretty awesome if with a different remote you could detect key presses that the AFTV doesn't use and build in functions. I've been testing a Minix Neo A2 Lite (to have an air-mouse for apps like Showbox) and it's decent but regularly misses key presses (works better on a standard Android box), if you said "with this remote you can get these 5 functions" I'd be all over it. Regardless, thanks for all of the work.
[Fire TV Themes and Apps] tampa8:
What a tremendous launcher for the Fire Stick. Works flawlessly and shows me all my apps including sideloaded. I don't have sideloaded pictures just the ones from the Amazon Cloud on the Stick. I can't seem to find them to use as a background.