[Amazon TV Home Button Not Working with Harmony Remote]

I ran into the same problem today with my new 2nd-Gen FireTV.   I just came up with a solution.  I connected my Media Center Keyboard to the FireTV and discovered that the media center home key returned to the Home Screen.  I then tried mapping the Home Key from the Windows media template in the Flirc app.  That didn't work for me. 

After further experimentation, here's my solution:  From the Flirc app, select 'Full Keyboard' from the controllers menu.  Select combination of Left-windows key, left-alt-key, and Enter key (illustrated in attached image) and record as usual to a button on your remote. 

 

No idea why it wouldn't accept the Home button from the media center presets, as I believe it just sends the keys I specified above. 

Awesome, I'll try this in a bit. Thanks again! :)

[Amazon TV Home Button Not Working with Harmony Remote]

Hey,

I just wanted to chime in and say that I experience the same problem. It's probably the new Fire TV but I really hope that the devs can do something about it. Not having the home button functionality sucks especially when you use it for Kodi/Firestarter.

Thanks for reporting this. I'm hoping they'll find a suitable command for this soon, or really, considering how annoying it is to repeatedly hit "Back" just to exit an app, I might just return my Flirc for the time being and wait to repurchase when this issue is resolved.

[Amazon TV Home Button Not Working with Harmony Remote]

I recently replaced a Roku 2 with a new (2015) Amazon Fire TV and bought Flirc so I could use my Harmony remote (Xbox 360 version). Since I still had the programming on the Harmony from the Roku 2, I just paired those buttons to Flirc like so:

Amazon Directional Buttons = Roku Directional Buttons

Amazon OK = Roku OK

Amazon Rewind, Play/Pause, Fast Forward = Roku Rewind, Play/Pause, Fast Forward

Amazon Back = Roku Back

Amazon Home = Roku Home

Amazon Menu = Roku Option (aka "*"-button)

 

I had the 3.6 Flirc firmware out of the box and, after programming, the only button that doesn't seem to work is the Home one. Just curious if this is a known issue with the Home button preset in Flirc and, if so, if there is a fix for this. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

NOTE: I have attempted the alternative fix of mapping the F12 key from the full keyboard to the button on the Harmony I wanted to use for the Fire TV Home button, however, this did not fix the issue. Unless there is some yet unreported/unknown issue assigning the command to one of the Harmony's "additional buttons" (the ones assigned to the changing display),  I can only assume that for the new Fire TV, this command to control the Home button has either been reassigned to a different keyboard key or just completely removed.