Yes it is included.
Thanks, Aman. Just need to wait for Google to push the app out.
Thank you and the team for all of your relentless work.
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If we can program it to show the live stream in PIP over the guide, is there to make this the default display for the guide where everytime you go to the guide the current live stream is shown in PIP?
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Yes this would be awesome!
PLEASE tell me exactly what you're entering into Button Mapper to make this work. I have tried every way I can think of and I can't get it to work. I've even searched for a tutorial....but there are none. I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure this out. Thank you!
Yes that would be amazing. The downside of button mapper is losing customizations if the device reboots. Kills the family acceptance factor, but if live PIP just kept rolling while the guide was accessed without me needing to send an ADB command regularly, my wife would be thrilled.
Sorry to bring this back from the dead, but is there an equivalent adb command to launch to the DVR "Up Next" screen? Since Tasker can send ADB shell commands natively now, I'm trying to remap buttons to align with my wife's use case:
Guide: display guide with picture-in-picture (easy enough with input keycode 171)
Tivo button: launch Channels pre-navigated to DVR screen
In the alpha you can use "dvr_recordings" or "dvr_up_next", or assign F1 to that screen under Remote Shortcut settings and then send that keycode
Is mpeg2 hardware decoding still broken on Tivo Stream 4k?
Depends if you got the 4800 update or not. They stopped it after all the issues were reported.
I paired Tivo Stream 4K remote with Nvidia Shield and tested button mapping features.
Only Guide button works while Live and TiVo doesn't.
@tmm1 Can you please add features similar to TS4K on Shield ?
Thanks in advance.
I've been using ChannelsDVR for about a week, and just found the this TechHive article, and followed the instructions. It is great how easily Channels works with the TS4K and remote buttons. I'm in for an annual subscription once my trial ends. Thanks, and keep up the great work!
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On the subject of the TiVo Stream Remote and Channels DVR, I'm having a couple of issues using it. If I use the number pad to go directly to a given channel and then hit channel up/down instead of going to the next channel up/down from where I am, it does it from the last channel I was on.
So for instance if I'm on channel 6000 and I punch in channel 5000 and then hit Channel up, instead of going to 5001, I go to 6001. I thought at first it was Flirc problem but I had the same issue using the remote that comes with it.
And possibly related (although maybe this is a Stream issue?), I have to punch in the channel number super fast or I end up somewhere other than my destination. Like I try to punch in 6009 and it starts changing before I get the last digits in. Maybe end up on 60 or 9 depending on how it reacts to the first set of numbers it "heard."
I first noticed it while trying my Harmony Hub out with the TS4K and then tried it with the remote that comes with the TS4k. I think it was maybe a bit worse on the Harmony remote but still needs to be quick regardless. Anyone else experience this and find a setting somewhere in the TS4k that gives a little more time on the number pad entry?
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I followed Here's how to de-TiVo your Stream
Without any other modifications and using the supplied mini peanut remote.
From the Home screen or in any open App:
Guide-Opens to Channels Guide
Tivo-Opens to Channels Library
Live-Opens Channels to the last Live TV channel watched.(Instead of opening Android's Live Channels)
While in the Channels app while watching Live TV or recorded show:
Live-Toggles between last 2 channels watched. Then the back button takes to the last screen you were on(recording page or guide)
Skip-Does nothing(because I have automatic commercial skip turned on)
I also have a wireless keyboard attached:
Enter/Space-Play/Pause/Select
Arrow keys-same as Dpad
1-0 and . -Direct Channel Input
C-Closed Caption Toggle On/Off
M-Mute
P-Picture-In-Picture but I cannot figure how to maximize it without going to Home Screen.
how exactly does tasker help you in this case? don't you still have to run the command every time you reboot in order to get this to work? if so, how is that any different from just having button mapper send the keycode?
At the time, I was using tasker to send adb commands (which didn't require a reboot), which were signaled by sending a tasker intent (also no reboot). I wound up abandoning it, because the time to handle so many handoffs between apps was annoyingly long.
ok, this morning i force stopped the channels app to try to fix my guide data issue and now the guide/dvr buttons aren't working anymore. can anyone assist me in getting this fixed?
i'm not talking anything with button mapper, just the basic tivo buttons that have worked with channels from the start that suddenly are not...
edit: nevermind, figured it out. somehow the channels button detector was turned off, i guess when i force stopped the app. good to know in case anyone else runs into this in the future...
I've noticed that on my Tivo Stream 4k devices that a system update disables the Channels button detector. The first time this happened to me it caught me off guard for a few minutes.
Yes very annoying and the stupid tivo stream app comes back.
i can confirm that it was the force stop that caused this. if you force stop the channels app, the button detector is turned off and you have to turn it back on.