So I have been using my firetv with kodi for about 2 weeks now and its been great. However, just yesterday I noticed I was having some very strange behavior with my remote's commands in kodi.
It used to be that the right/left would be +/- 30 sec and the up/down would be +/- 10 mins. Fast forward and rewind buttons did not work in kodi. I had yet to upload a custom keymap.xml. But, now I can't fast forward at all. Pressing right jumps me back to the start of the video and up jumps me 10 mins but pressing it again drops me right back to the beginning of the video...makes no sense! (I tried this on multiple files, same problem).
So I pushed a custom keymap.xml (just used a premade one from the kodi wiki) with adbfire and restarted kodi on the fire tv (went to applications, force stop). However, I have the same crazy error. Can anybody help me? This is totally screwing up my xbmc experience right now. I think the keymap push worked though because now I can use the subtitle on off button (in the keymap) but the tracking is still totally jacked up...
Edit: I have noticed when you jump forward a bunch of chapters (say a movie) the progress bar when you pause the movie shows 0:00/x:xx like you are at the start of the movie even though you are 20 minutes in. The progress bar is messed up as well.
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Hi, I used the search function, but I suck sometimes with it so I hope this has not been covered. I will explain this the best I can, let's say you're using your browser, (Default, DolphinHD, Skyfire) any of them, and you want to stream a movie, whether it be a 5 minute movie, or a 2 hour movie. You load the web page the movie is on, and it starts playing because Flash 10 is awesome, and having it on your phone is even more awesome. But then someone texts you in the middle of a 2 hour movie, and you respond to them. If you go back to your movie, it will continue to play for whatever part was already loaded in the ram, and then stop. It's like the phone (I say phone, because every single browser does this) does not know to keep streaming once you return to the web page. You could zoom in, fiddle around with the stream (Which is hard enough) and try to find the exact position you were at before, but that seems like a lot of work because I hope somebody sympathizes with me that controlling a scroll bar in a flash movie is almost impossible. I have tried making my own HTML website, where there is a frame in the middle, which means obviously it's two different web pages in one. If I start to play a movie on the left frame, and then move to the right frame and load a page, again, the movie will stop. Any disruption, will stop the movie from streaming. If this seems long and drawn out, I apologize, I just tried to make it clear. Does anyone have a way to rig around this, or solution in general?
Just disable the text messaging popup and you'll be fine.
Cogentjin said:
Hi, I used the search function, but I suck sometimes with it so I hope this has not been covered. I will explain this the best I can, let's say you're using your browser, (Default, DolphinHD, Skyfire) any of them, and you want to stream a movie, whether it be a 5 minute movie, or a 2 hour movie. You load the web page the movie is on, and it starts playing because Flash 10 is awesome, and having it on your phone is even more awesome. But then someone texts you in the middle of a 2 hour movie, and you respond to them. If you go back to your movie, it will continue to play for whatever part was already loaded in the ram, and then stop. It's like the phone (I say phone, because every single browser does this) does not know to keep streaming once you return to the web page. You could zoom in, fiddle around with the stream (Which is hard enough) and try to find the exact position you were at before, but that seems like a lot of work because I hope somebody sympathizes with me that controlling a scroll bar in a flash movie is almost impossible. I have tried making my own HTML website, where there is a frame in the middle, which means obviously it's two different web pages in one. If I start to play a movie on the left frame, and then move to the right frame and load a page, again, the movie will stop. Any disruption, will stop the movie from streaming. If this seems long and drawn out, I apologize, I just tried to make it clear. Does anyone have a way to rig around this, or solution in general?
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Although no 2 hour movies, I just tap to pause. It just picks up where I left off.
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I did some work on one of the 2 non rooted units that I have and installed the Llama options for "sleep mode" where the unit boots to XBMC when turned on, goes to sleep after 20 minutes and if yo hit the home button it still takes you back to the FTV home page but with no activity for 15 seconds it goes to sleep again. If you hit the OK button it wakes back up in XBMC. What a great setup for a non rooted unit. Kudos to the Kodi.wikki site for the information and way to do it.
Long story short, I took my second unit and did a factory restore on it to set it up the same way. All went well, but I notice that now up at the top of the home page where the recently view items are, all of the original shortcuts are gone...Netflix, Youtube, Classic TV...... 14 or so of them in all and in thier palce now are two or three info videos including the original one you have to sit through to even get the unit working and two more new ones as well as a shortcut to Prime TV.
My question is.....is ther anyway to delete these videos and get them off my unit. They simply taKe up space and after having to watch that first one at least a dozen time now I don't even want to see a shortcut to it!!
Someone please say there's an easy way to delete them and tell me how.....
Thanks!
PS... I noticed other several subtle changes in the layout even though my firmware didn't change. I can't explain how it happened, but another change is when you go to settings, applications and manage all applications. The window with all of the installed aps used to open up to the right of the main app screen.....now it opens to the left of the main screen. Again, no big deal, but something did change today after resetting the unit and I just set it up for the first time several days ago....it's now different. I just want to eliminate those instructional video shortcuts though!
Hoping to get help with troubleshooting...
My hardwired aftv occasionally has Amazon video/Netflix issues but no problems for 3+ days now.
My aftv on 5ghz runs fine except...
I get into the habit on creating a playlist and falling asleep while it's going. This might be because it doesn't sleep automatically, but the next morning if I try to play a prime or Netflix video I can absolutely GUARANTEE it won't play. It will either show a message stating so or it will try to play but the picture goes on & off black until it just stops. Reboot and it's fixed.
It's getting more annoying because it's every day and this one has boot menu so boot time is significantly slower. I can provide more info if it's needed.
I think I can remedy it not going to sleep but don't think that should matter. Plus this aftv has always needed regular reboots because the sound would cut in & out otherwise. I attributed that to the older tv I'm using. Switching hdmi cable didn't help.
Btw--looking closely I see I still have a folder called "android apps" somewhere around sda/usbstorage even though I now mount to storage/usb/drive1...that folder survived several cwm factory restores. I'm about 90% certain it's not native, I created it but haven't gone ahead and deleted it just in case. It's probably not relevant to my above issues but just want to make sure. It can stay there as long as it's not creating conflicts since its just an empty folder. Probably from when I used stickmount awhile back.
KLit75 said:
Hoping to get help with troubleshooting...
My hardwired aftv occasionally has Amazon video/Netflix issues but no problems for 3+ days now.
My aftv on 5ghz runs fine except...
I get into the habit on creating a playlist and falling asleep while it's going. This might be because it doesn't sleep automatically, but the next morning if I try to play a prime or Netflix video I can absolutely GUARANTEE it won't play. It will either show a message stating so or it will try to play but the picture goes on & off black until it just stops. Reboot and it's fixed.
It's getting more annoying because it's every day and this one has boot menu so boot time is significantly slower. I can provide more info if it's needed.
I think I can remedy it not going to sleep but don't think that should matter. Plus this aftv has always needed regular reboots because the sound would cut in & out otherwise. I attributed that to the older tv I'm using. Switching hdmi cable didn't help.
Btw--looking closely I see I still have a folder called "android apps" somewhere around sda/usbstorage even though I now mount to storage/usb/drive1...that folder survived several cwm factory restores. I'm about 90% certain it's not native, I created it but haven't gone ahead and deleted it just in case. It's probably not relevant to my above issues but just want to make sure. It can stay there as long as it's not creating conflicts since its just an empty folder. Probably from when I used stickmount awhile back.
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A potential quick solution would be to use something to clear memory. I've been using Fast Reboot (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greatbytes.fastreboot&hl=en) on all my android devices whenever they start to feel a little sluggish. It doesn't actually reboot the device, but simply clears memory by closing apps out fully. It's helped with Netflix issues before. It's much simpler than constant reboots, but it's not a miracle cure.
Sounds to me like XBMC is never actually closing down, and Android thinks that it's still actively playing video. Only one app can play video at a time in Android, and if you're playing a video in XBMC and attempt to play a video from another app like Netfix, it won't be able to start because XBMC still has the stage with regards to playing video.
Are you launching Netflix/Amazon from within XBMC?
Does it happen after you completely close XBMC, or tell it to force quit in the Android menu?
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A potential quick solution would be to use something to clear memory. I've been using Fast Reboot (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greatbytes.fastreboot&hl=en) on all my android devices whenever they start to feel a little sluggish. It doesn't actually reboot the device, but simply clears memory by closing apps out fully. It's helped with Netflix issues before. It's much simpler than constant reboots, but it's not a miracle cure.
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Thanks. I'll try it. I had an app that scheduled reboots and it didn't remedy the problem but I'm open to any possible fixes.
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Sounds to me like XBMC is never actually closing down, and Android thinks that it's still actively playing video. Only one app can play video at a time in Android, and if you're playing a video in XBMC and attempt to play a video from another app like Netfix, it won't be able to start because XBMC still has the stage with regards to playing video.
Are you launching Netflix/Amazon from within XBMC?
Does it happen after you completely close XBMC, or tell it to force quit in the Android menu?
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Those are actually tough questions
I DO have a Netflix shortcut setup in xbmc but rarely use. I'll say lately, for some reason it's been working. Typically though, if I spend awhile in xbmc and then want to go to Netflix or prime, I'll stop the video (if playing), press home then force quit xbmc. This is out of habit because it has such a high fail rate. Of course I don't expect my wife & kids to do all that so that's were it gets more troublesome.
Stopping the video in xbmc is something I do 100% of the time now. I'm very conscious of it but do you think just having xbmc itself running causes issues when switching? I wonder if an app like llama can be set up to kill xbmc when pressing home? Or maybe the app in the post above might help?
I say tough questions because my viewing habits don't follow patterns. I will say it happens less when I force quit xbmc but that's not 100% of the time, probably 70 to 80%.
But one time I can COUNT on it happening is if xbmc idles while I sleep. When I wake up and exit, force quit xbmc...prime and Netflix don't work till I reboot.
Talking now I'm thinking MAYBE clear cache and force quit might help but there's got to be a better way. I've been a little lazy there not looking into that. My other aftv sleeps fine but it's in the living room so I don't leave it playing before going to bed.
I'll try the above app and adjust some settings to try and get it to sleep automatically.
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A potential quick solution would be to use something to clear memory. I've been using Fast Reboot (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greatbytes.fastreboot&hl=en) on all my android devices whenever they start to feel a little sluggish. It doesn't actually reboot the device, but simply clears memory by closing apps out fully. It's helped with Netflix issues before. It's much simpler than constant reboots, but it's not a miracle cure.
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Tried it on my phone. It's a pretty useful app. Do you exclude any apps or do you just use the defaults list on your aftv? Thanks again!
KLit75 said:
Tried it on my phone. It's a pretty useful app. Do you exclude any apps or do you just use the defaults list on your aftv? Thanks again!
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I'm not sure what you mean. It's a one click solution to clear memory.
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I'm not sure what you mean. It's a one click solution to clear memory.
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Yes. And this might just be being overly cautious. In the settings you can exclude certain apps. But I went ahead and just pressed fast reboot with default settings and it works fine.
Be nice if you could automate this to be triggered when exiting apps. Or put it on the homescreen for quick access. I guess you could with a launcher.
Very much appreciated! Thanks again!
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Yes. And this might just be being overly cautious. In the settings you can exclude certain apps. But I went ahead and just pressed fast reboot with default settings and it works fine.
Be nice if you could automate this to be triggered when exiting apps. Or put it on the homescreen for quick access. I guess you could with a launcher.
Very much appreciated! Thanks again!
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That's what I'm unsure of. How do you access the settings? You open it, it clears memory and shows you what it's cleared. That's it.
**Edit. Nevermind. I'm assuming you purchased the pro version. It looks like it does have settings to exclude apps and schedule "reboots". I've only ever used the free version.
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That's what I'm unsure of. How do you access the settings? You open it, it clears memory and shows you what it's cleared. That's it.
**Edit. Nevermind. I'm assuming you purchased the pro version. It looks like it does have settings to exclude apps and schedule "reboots". I've only ever used the free version.
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Yes. It's pro and it is effective for somethings. Unfortunately tonite I found out "simulating" a reboot is not quite the same as rebooting.
As I said, I've just got in the habit of rebooting this aftv before I use it...That's because for as long as I've owned it I've had this seemingly one of a kind issue where the video playing will have the sound cut in & out indefinetly until it gets rebooted. Don't matter if it's Netflix, prime, or xbmc.
It's done this since I bought it with stock firmware, at least 3 different prerooted firmwares and several factory resets. I've tried different hdmi cables.
My other aftv is ok. Only difference is it's hardwired and is connected to a better tv. But my network is solid. All devices, especially streaming boxes are fine.
Anyway. I was optimistic when I saw you could essentially reboot without waiting the 60 seconds or how ever long, to play something. But at least this one glitch still needs a real reboot.
I am happy that it appears to help with transitions from xbmc to Netflix or prime but it looks like I'll still be rebooting regularly (daily at least)
I think I posted about this awhile back but no matter where I look I can't find anyone that has this problem.
I have been using SPMC since the Ouya, and elmerohueso's thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2790392) at one point he had suggested it since it has android specific fixes that did not make it in the main KODI branch. It just got an update to 14.2.0 and he backported a new Isengard feature, skip steps. I certainly see functionality in this but am looking for a way to disable it, the kodi wiki (http://kodi.wiki/view/Skip_Steps) says the delay can be set to none via the GUI but mine's only allowing me to go down to 500ms, I see an advancedsettings.xml option for seek steps but not for the delay, does anyone know if there is a work around for this or am I the only one getting this?
Second thing, the new amazon update has many nice improvements, but has anyone else noticed the new Netflix no longer puts the FTV to sleep after sitting idle? The old app used to allow the FTV to sleep after sitting idle it would induce the screensaver then sleep. New app just sits on a dim screen forever, its only a problem cause on occasion there have been times where I've fallen asleep to something playing no netflix and the FTV stays indefinitely on and never goes to sleep all night . My question is this, Does anyone know of any tricks to make this happen automagically, through root/llama/scripts anything? It's a minor annoyance, but I have 4 FTV's in my house and my kids like to leave stuff on so I'm constantly having to manually put them to sleep its quite frustrating.
Any help is appreciated! Thanks all!
I know a few people have had similar questions but mine is just enough different that I thought I'd ask.
I used to be able to cast from youtube on my macbook air to my first gen fire tv. I sold the mac and now have a Lenovo laptop running windows 10. If I go into youtube (in a chrome browser) and hit the "cast" button one of my three fire tvs doesn't show up & the other two don't work.
Has youtube casting been disabled? Is there a three sided battle going on between Google, Amazon & MS for control over the cast landscape?
Any help would be great.
Thanks in advance.
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I know a few people have had similar questions but mine is just enough different that I thought I'd ask.
I used to be able to cast from youtube on my macbook air to my first gen fire tv. I sold the mac and now have a Lenovo laptop running windows 10. If I go into youtube (in a chrome browser) and hit the "cast" button one of my three fire tvs doesn't show up & the other two don't work.
Has youtube casting been disabled? Is there a three sided battle going on between Google, Amazon & MS for control over the cast landscape?
Any help would be great.
Thanks in advance.
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If it's working on your other fire tvs then logically casting wasnt disabled.
It's happened to me several times. Some fire devices are unavailable on the network and not sure why. I don't think I ever did anything to fix it--just moved on and now, in rare instances I try to cast, all my fire devices appear.
*You might want to try power cycling all them, including your router. See if that works.
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If it's working on your other fire tvs then logically casting wasnt disabled.
It's happened to me several times. Some fire devices are unavailable on the network and not sure why. I don't think I ever did anything to fix it--just moved on and now, in rare instances I try to cast, all my fire devices appear.
*You might want to try power cycling all them, including your router. See if that works.
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it's NOT working on any of my fire tv's. Two of them show up on my laptop; one of them doesn't. But, I can't cast to any of them. So logically I asked the question.
Sorry you're having the same random happenings. I don't think random events are very logical.
Hopefully someone else will have resolved this issue or can confirm that Youtube casting is dead.
I had the exact same problem...and since im on the original firmware. (51.1.1.0) i did Nothing. I stopped using the fire tv. Im just now getting around to completely wiping, re--rooting, and going to install a newer firmware to try to fix it.
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it's NOT working on any of my fire tv's. Two of them show up on my laptop; one of them doesn't. But, I can't cast to any of them. So logically I asked the question.
Sorry you're having the same random happenings. I don't think random events are very logical.
Hopefully someone else will have resolved this issue or can confirm that Youtube casting is dead.
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I wasn't trying to be snarky when I said "logically" but I did admittedly skim your post and saw devices were showing up (missed the part where you said the ones that did appear werent working.)
Im at work. And I only cast from my phone/tablet. Last time I tried (sometime in the past 2 weeks) it was working.
Still thinking network issue. Try reboot. Another observation--Fire TV casts fine, no lag but I find it's inconvenient for me. From the time I hit the cast button to the time it actually plays the video, for me, takes 30 seconds or more. There are scenarios where it's definitely more convenient but its that long start up time that made me sort of evolve to just opening the YouTube app on aftv.
KLit75 said:
I wasn't trying to be snarky when I said "logically" but I did admittedly skim your post and saw devices were showing up (missed the part where you said the ones that did appear werent working.)
Im at work. And I only cast from my phone/tablet. Last time I tried (sometime in the past 2 weeks) it was working.
Still thinking network issue. Try reboot. Another observation--Fire TV casts fine, no lag but I find it's inconvenient for me. From the time I hit the cast button to the time it actually plays the video, for me, takes 30 seconds or more. There are scenarios where it's definitely more convenient but its that long start up time that made me sort of evolve to just opening the YouTube app on aftv.
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And I appologize for over reacting and piling on the snark.
I don't think its a network thing since I can cast from my phone but I'll try rebooting everything.