By uninstalling or disabling many of the apps, you can basically turn the device into a generic Android TV.
- TiVo Stream â This is TiVo's aggregating app/home screen, and what is launched when you press the TiVo button. While it cannot be uninstalled, you can disable it.
- Sling TV â All of the other apps that the system has pre-installed can be uninstalled except for Sling. However, you can disable the app.
- TiVoPlusPlayer â This is installed as a system app, but you can still disable it. This is the app that gets launched when you press the Live button on the remote. (Oddly, that buton is the only one that doesn't seem to come up with a scancode when using Button Mapper.)
- com.tivo.tvlaunchercustomization â This one is the most important one to get default Home behavior back. This is the app that makes it so you cannot move TiVo Stream or Netflix from the first two positions of the Apps Channel. (If you disable the TiVo Stream app, it will disappear from the first position, but Netflix will still be present, and vice versa for deleting the Netflix app.) With this app disabled, you can move the TiVo Stream or Netflix app to a different position, or move other apps to the first positions in the App Channel. Also, the TiVo Recommend Channel can now be moved or deleted from the Home screen. (By default, this Channel is always in the second rowâimmediately below Appsâand cannot be moved or deleted.)
Once you disable the 3 TiVo specific apps, you're left with a plain Android TV dongle. In Channels, the Skip button on the remote will skip to the next commercial break marker on a recording. The Live button won't do anything (and I haven't figured out how to remap that).
I've remapped the TiVo button to be a second Home button, and the Guide button to launch/switch to Channels. I've mapped the Info button to Menu, but that doesn't seem to do anything. (In most places, long-pressing Select seems to act as Menu, but not during playback in Channels. I know you can press Down to get the Quick Guide, but I also often use the Menu button on a Fire TV to achieve this, too.)
Also as previously noted, Channel +/- works, as does direct input using the keypad (except for the missing .
for OTA channels).