Hi,
I have a unit that is showing the red mute symbol in XBMC. I can't seem to make it disappear. I've gone into the playback settings and adjusted both the volume to 0DB and the volume boost to about 10 and yet the system is still muted with the symbol there. There is no keyboard attached to the unit and only has the stock FTV remote. Where else would I find a setting that would unmute the unit? I've looked in sound settings and everything seems correct, but I know I must be missing something... Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
fxbill said:
Hi,
I have a unit that is showing the red mute symbol in XBMC. I can't seem to make it disappear. I've gone into the playback settings and adjusted both the volume to 0DB and the volume boost to about 10 and yet the system is still muted with the symbol there. There is no keyboard attached to the unit and only has the stock FTV remote. Where else would I find a setting that would unmute the unit? I've looked in sound settings and everything seems correct, but I know I must be missing something... Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
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You can try to send a keyevent over adb shell, maybe it can help.
Code:
adb shell input keyevent 164
164 is the constant for KEYCODE_VOLUME_MUTE.
You can mute/unmute with the same command again.
Very simple to fix. Play a video and when it starts playing hit the big round button, when the onscreen controls popup go over and stop on the audio settings icon and click it, now just move the volume slider and it will disappear.
porkenhimer said:
Very simple to fix. Play a video and when it starts playing hit the big round button, when the onscreen controls popup go over and stop on the audio settings icon and click it, now just move the volume slider and it will disappear.
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As stated in my post.... That was the first thing tried with no effect. I've rooted and programmed over 250 of these units and never had this issue come up and if it does it has always been in the sound adjustment as you stated. That is not the case with this one and yet it only affects XBMC, I've had the volume run up and down while playing a show as well as the volume boost and nothing gets rid of it. I haven't tried a "set to default" in the system settings audio section yet.... That will be my next approach I guess.
esc0rpi0n said:
You can try to send a keyevent over adb shell, maybe it can help.
Code:
adb shell input keyevent 164
164 is the constant for KEYCODE_VOLUME_MUTE.
You can mute/unmute with the same command again.
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The problem is that I don't physically have the unit. I'm trying to help someone with that problem and they have never had it connected to a computer for programming. They received the unit working fine and then this happened and yet they have no keyboard attached and only have the stock remote.
It's baffling to me!
I have two suggestion. If he has a keyboard tell him to press the F8 key. If he does not have a keyboard tell him to install Wukong remote on his phone and his Fire TV and put it in Keyboard mode and press the volume buttons. He could also try yatse remote and see if the volume keys do anything to help. He can get Wukong and Yatse from the play store.
porkenhimer said:
I have two suggestion. If he has a keyboard tell him to press the F8 key. If he does not have a keyboard tell him to install Wukong remote on his phone and his Fire TV and put it in Keyboard mode and press the volume buttons. He could also try yatse remote and see if the volume keys do anything to help. He can get Wukong and Yatse from the play store.
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Good suggestion....but i finally got him to tell me that he had tried to install a TV program from Super Repo called "Psuedo TV Live" which in turn also installs a program called "Up Next" or something like that. After a quick glance I see that the default settings in the program are for installation in Windows! I had him uninstall it and the other program and reboot....he actually had it go away for a moment and then it wouldn't allow him to finish the uninstall because it said a program called "Back Row" was using it, but we couldn't even locate that!. Basically he just started playing and totally screwed things up. I'm just going to wipe it and reprogram it for him. It's not the first time it's happened, it won't be the last. I was just hoping there would be an easy out for it, but it doesn't appear as though there will be one.
Thanks anyway guys.... I really do appreciate it!
Bill
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I'm trying to implement the ability to get the FTV to sleep from an XBMC addon. Does anyone know if this is possible?
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elmerohueso said:
I'm trying to implement the ability to get the FTV to sleep from an XBMC addon. Does anyone know if this is possible?
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rbox discovered that sending the equivalent of a windows keyboard sleep key press causes the Fire Tv to sleep.
fireTVnews.com said:
rbox discovered that sending the equivalent of a windows keyboard sleep key press causes the Fire Tv to sleep.
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I would like to point out, it's like a regular android phone sleeping. It's still awake and still responds to adb and whatnot. The light turns off, and the cpu might be downclocked a little, but that's about it.
fireTVnews.com said:
rbox discovered that sending the equivalent of a windows keyboard sleep key press causes the Fire Tv to sleep.
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Unfortunately, I don't have one of those media keyboards to check this, but can you tell from the XBMC log which keycode and/or command that's binding to? In the official keymap the sleep/power buttons just seem to call ActivateWindow(shutdownmenu) (showing the shutdown menu).
Edit: On second thought, it might be the FTV itself interpreting that button as kicking it into sleep mode, not a command from XBMC doing it.
Edit 2: Yup, think I've got it figured out. I'll test it out tonight.
Edit 3: Tested, working, and released.
I was looking around online to see if there were any alternative ways to turn off the FireTv. I know about the Play/Pause and Select combo, but has anyone heard of this?
This doesnt make any sense to me. If you're using a keyboard/mouse combo ( K400r here ) and you hold Fn+Esc... The FireTv turns off immedately. Both in FireTv screens and XBMC... The white light goes out too... Then click a button on the remote and its instatntly on.
Edited: Also just noticed that on the keyboard, there is a "Power PC'' button at the top that does the same thing...
On my K400r, there is no Fn ( blue lettering ) on the Esc key, so I have no idea whats its actually doing.. Its weird that the FireTV will sleep even in XBMC, which is known as usually not possible ( have to go back to FireTV screen )
mroneeyedboh said:
I was looking around online to see if there were any alternative ways to turn off the FireTv. I know about the Play/Pause and Select combo, but has anyone heard of this?
This doesnt make any sense to me. If you're using a keyboard/mouse combo ( K400r here ) and you hold Fn+Esc... The FireTv turns off immedately. Both in FireTv screens and XBMC... The white light goes out too... Then click a button on the remote and its instatntly on.
Edited: Also just noticed that on the keyboard, there is a "Power PC'' button at the top that does the same thing...
On my K400r, there is no Fn ( blue lettering ) on the Esc key, so I have no idea whats its actually doing.. Its weird that the FireTV will sleep even in XBMC, which is known as usually not possible ( have to go back to FireTV screen )
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Anything that's interpreted by Android as the POWER button, including the key combinations you mentioned, will put the FTV (or any other Android device) to sleep. I've seen mention of some third-party BT remotes being able to put the FTV to sleep with their POWER button.
If you're rooted, my XBMC repo has a screensaver that can put the FTV to sleep, and also my Confluence++ skin can put it to sleep via the XBMC power menu. Both methods simply simulate a POWER button press.
Good deal bro! Thanks. I'll check it out tonight when I get home
I'm new to the fire.. How can I load just the screensaver? Anyway to just get the screensaver??
mroneeyedboh said:
Good deal bro! Thanks. I'll check it out tonight when I get home
I'm new to the fire.. How can I load just the screensaver? Anyway to just get the screensaver??
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No, you'll need XBMC.
I have xbmc And I see your skin installed ( bought this aftv setup already by a seller.. ) and I also see the screensaver installed.
It is enabled, but it doesn't activate in xbmc. The skin is also enabled...
mroneeyedboh said:
I have xbmc And I see your skin installed ( bought this aftv setup already by a seller.. ) and I also see the screensaver installed.
It is enabled, but it doesn't activate in xbmc. The skin is also enabled...
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It only works if you're rooted, and you need to give XBMC root/SU permissions from within the screensaver's settings or the skin's settings.
elmerohueso said:
It only works if you're rooted, and you need to give XBMC root/SU permissions from within the screensaver's settings or the skin's settings.
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I have all of that. Im rooted, I did the SU check and all...
mroneeyedboh said:
I have all of that. Im rooted, I did the SU check and all...
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If you have the Power menu enabled in my skin settings, does the Sleep command put your FTV to sleep? If so, then the screensaver should also work fine if you have the settings in my screensaver set to Sleep.
Yeah .. Figured it out . the screensaver was enabled but not selected under the option under settings/appearance. Thanks
I just received a notification while booting my Fire TV Stick that a new software update is available.
I have sideloaded Kodi, replaced the icon and wondering if an updates overwrittes my Kodi, settings and icon???
gessi2000 said:
I just received a notification while booting my Fire TV Stick that a new software update is available.
I have sideloaded Kodi, replaced the icon and wondering if an updates overwrittes my Kodi, settings and icon???
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I am assuming you used Lama to set ikonotv as your main screen icon to start kodi and then replace its icon with kodi icon. If this is correct then you will need to push them again every time you power your unit off or after every update your stick will take.
Will the fire stick software/firmware update mess up any Kodi settings?
No, but I have noticed one thing since the latest update, if storage gets low and I play anything with Kodi the remote will not do anything inside the video screen. So I have to hit the home button and clean storage before the remote will work while media is playing inside Kodi. The remote still works on everything else, but the back button, directional buttons, play/pause, round enter button, menu button and rewind/fast foward buttons will not do anything, so if I click on a video and it starts playing, the only way to get out of the video screen is to hit the home button. This has always happened with the onscreen keyboard on all OSs, if the storage gets low the letters no longer appear on the XBMC/Kodi keyboard, but this is the first time the remote has not worked while playing videos in Kodi. Its not just the Fire TV remote either, its all devices that control Kodi. The mouse and keyboard also stop working while media is playing inside Kodi if the storage gets to low. If you hit any button or move the mouse, it does nothing if storage gets too low, but they still work after hitting the home button. Just thought I would let people know incase it happens to them too. Simple solution, just clean storage. I recreated the problem too by filling the device with a random large file, after deleting the file the problem went away.
I have recently unlocked and rooted my FTV 4K sticks which is working great with Wolf Launcher.
Something which I have always wanted to do which could now be possible is for the power button on the remote to send an ir command to turn off/ on the tv. But also send a home command to the Fire Stick, this means whatever is playing will pause and the tv will retunr to the main menu, due to the way I stream live tv forgetting to press home is annoying before turning off the tv.
Is this possible not that my sticks are unlocked and rooted? If so can anyone explain what is the best app / method to achieve this?
Thanks in advance
dougie175 said:
I have recently unlocked and rooted my FTV 4K sticks which is working great with Wolf Launcher.
Something which I have always wanted to do which could now be possible is for the power button on the remote to send an ir command to turn off/ on the tv. But also send a home command to the Fire Stick, this means whatever is playing will pause and the tv will retunr to the main menu, due to the way I stream live tv forgetting to press home is annoying before turning off the tv.
Is this possible not that my sticks are unlocked and rooted? If so can anyone explain what is the best app / method to achieve this?
Thanks in advance
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You can use ADB
Code:
adb shell input keyevent 26
AmznUser444 Dev said:
You can use ADB
Code:
adb shell input keyevent 26
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Thanks could you expand a little further on this or point me to a topic that may help me understand how to achieve what I am looking to achieve
I am guessing that single command "adb shell input keyevent 26" doesn't make the power button act as a power button as well as a home button just in that simple single line of command?
Thanks very much
The power button is a not programmable beyond powering on and off a tv. It operates on IR. The home button operates on Wifi direct.
Thanks for confirmation. It's a shame but it's what I thought the issue would be
Hi everyone,
I have configured hands-free mode on my phone but after a while stop working (if I say "alexa" nothing happen). Then I configure again and alexa works as it should but after a while stop working again.
Anyone facing the same problem?
1ce8reaker said:
Hi everyone,
I have configured hands-free mode on my phone but after a while stop working (if I say "alexa" nothing happen). Then I configure again and alexa works as it should but after a while stop working again.
Anyone facing the same problem?
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Yep doesn't work for me either
It will work the first time then the 2nd time you see the location icon appear on the status bar and nothing happens
If you press the alexa mic icon manually it will work
What I ended up doing was assigning the long press of the power button to alexa so now when I long press it it acts as my assistant and brings up the alexa prompt eliminating the need to say a key word to open alexa. (Hold the power button down even longer for the usual power options)