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  1. It's fall, can we get an update?
  2. Well, if anyone cares. I have a working solution for this that my wife is super happy with and also opens the possibility for way more control of these devices utilizing a harmony hub, Flirc USB, raspberry pi zero w, and the built in hotkey daemon triggerhappy. In my case I needed the harmony hub to establish itself as a bluetooth keyboard with the firestick. You could also use a generic USB keyboard receiver plugged into the firestick but I had an extra hub sitting around so that's what I used. Flirc is connected to the Pi and it relays commands to the firestick via ADB using trigger happy. It's *WAY* more complicated than it needs to be because these stupid streaming devices need better remotes. There's not enough buttons on them, and I don't want to use my phone to control them because there's no tactile feedback (which is the same reason all of the touch screen remotes suck). So anyways for my issue, when you press guide on the harmony remote instead of controlling the firestick, it tells the pi to send the command adb shell input keyevent 297 which opens the guide on the firestick 4k max. This does absolutely nothing on the older firesticks by the way (Amazon needs to get their crap together). For my wife's IR remote, it also sends all the navigation commands via ADB as well using the sendevent shell command to whichever deviceid the harmony hub has identified itself as. I used this method because sendevent is significantly faster than adb input. You can also set up buttons to directly open apps with this! Ie I used the unused numeric buttons to open things like Netflix, Prime Video, and Youtube. There's lots of possibilities here that I stumbled across so at least that makes it more worthwhile. If anyone's interested, I'm happy to share more details on the setup.
  3. Definitely something bizarre going on and unless Amazon fixes it, this is DOA. I played around with adb and sendevent and got excited because I had something working using triggerhappy on the pi. Until the fire remote disconnected and everything stopped working. IF, and only if the amazon remote is connected, you can send the guide button press to /dev/input/<eventid of the fire remote> and it will work. It does not work anywhere at all for any other input device. So there's something hardcoded somewhere that only allows the guide press to come from the official remote. Further, it doesn't even work if you pair up an older fire remote that doesn't have the guide button. Stupid. stupid, stupid. This is clearly a bug, but it'll never get fixed. Thanks again for all the help. Guess it's time to find a different solution.
  4. I actually have two ATSC HDHR's and I've tried getchannels. I'm working with a very low wife acceptance factor here and there were too many compromises with get channels. We have Philo and several of the channels we watch do not have TV Everywhere equivalents which means you'd have to switch to the Philo app to watch them. Plus IIRC the guide did not loop around back to the top when you got to the bottom. I know, first world problems, but it's an issue for her which means it's an issue for me. Plus I hate the subscription model for getchannels or any app for that matter. The beauty of the Firestick is the interface is pretty much exactly the same as what we're both used to for live tv and combined with the fire tv recast it puts all our OTA channels and Philo channels in the same guide and there's no extra subscription. It's absolutely killing me that the damned guide button on Amazon's new hardware is what's holding this up! lol That unhandled keycode is what AmzPhoneWindowManager is receiving from the button press, so there's some kind of trickery going on somewhere on the fire stick that's converting the correct keycode to it. For example, if I program the numeric buttons into the remote, they show up in the logcat that exact way with the correct keycode. pi@bthidhub:~ $ flirc_util settings 3.25.3 FW Version: v4.9.3 SKU: Flirc 2.0 [dori] Branch: master Config: release Hash: 0xCB185BDE Settings: sleep detection: always enabled noise canceler: always enabled inter-key delay: N/A for current firmware variant: Flirc builtin profiles: NA Memory Info: NA product sku: Flirc 2.0 [dori] Recorded Keys: Index hash IK ID key ----- -------- --- -- ------------ 0 ED385097 108 01 up 1 41787497 109 01 left 2 7D14E297 109 01 down 3 58C86297 109 01 right 4 BF8F6297 109 01 enter 5 5D7FE297 109 01 escape 6 0059754B 130 01 E <-- I have no idea where these came from 7 9FFA6297 109 01 ! <-- 8 53DA6297 109 02 rewind 9 BF6A7497 108 02 play/pause 10 D1F15097 109 02 fast_forward 11 72C1BA8B 090 01 E 12 91C18697 108 04 browser_home 13 1CD68697 108 02 0x8D
  5. No worky... BTW: Thank you for trying to help me figure this thing out. I have a feeling it's just never going to work. This is from getevent on the firestick with the Flirc. /dev/input/event1: 0004 0004 000c008d /dev/input/event1: 0001 016a 00000001 /dev/input/event1: 0000 0000 00000000 /dev/input/event1: 0004 0004 000c008d /dev/input/event1: 0001 016a 00000000 /dev/input/event1: 0000 0000 00000000 Same from the Amazon Remote: /dev/input/event2: 0004 0004 000c008d /dev/input/event2: 0001 016a 00000001 /dev/input/event2: 0000 0000 00000000 /dev/input/event2: 0004 0004 000c008d /dev/input/event2: 0001 016a 00000000 /dev/input/event2: 0000 0000 00000000 They are identical. Now, here's the logcat when I press the button on Flirc. 09-15 18:38:29.768 454 656 D AmzPhoneWindowManager: interceptUnhandledKey: 172 Where the heck did keycode 172 come from?? Banghead.
  6. So the plot thickens. Was messing around with the Firestick and was able to capture the events coming straight from the remote and it sends the keycode 8D from the consumer table. I tried that code for flirc previously and it doesn't do anything and even tried it again just in case it didn't record correctly. So there's got to be some trickery going on with FireOS. Might have to just smash the damned thing with a hammer and try a Chromecast with Google TV to see if that's any better. What kills me is I have an Nvidia shield which is vastly superior to the Firestick, but there's no good way to have OTA TV and a DVR like the Fire Recast.
  7. Did some more digging and and found this really cool raspberry pi project to turn a pi zero w into a bluetooth hub which pairs up as a bluetooth keyboard. It works with the exception of the guide button (expected) and the home button (banghead). Anyhoo, I also installed the flirc utilities on the pi and attempted to record my keypress. On the firestick it recognizes the button as "KEYECODE_LIVE_TV" with a scancode of 362 and keycode 297. I used HID tools to record the keypress. Here's the results: # ReportID: 2 /Consumer Devices ['0xc0129'] E: 000000.000000 3 02 29 01 So as you can see it did record the code correctly, but it still doesn't work. My thinking is how the button is recognized in the consumer usage table. Is it possible for you to include that scancode in the flirc firmware?
  8. Windows is 3.26.3 and Linux is 3.25.3
  9. No dice. recorded it with the linux version and it still records it as 0. 09-10 09:39:14.822 457 639 D AmzPhoneWindowManager: interceptUnhandledKey: 0 Also, here's the message I get with the windows version: C:\Program Files (x86)\Flirc>flirc_util.exe record_api 0x2 0x129 Consumer Usage Table: 0x129 [E] lib/libtransport/transport.c _dev_send_cmd(223): Wrong response: 'getversion' hit a key on the remote to be paired with 0 0 [E] lib/libtransport/transport.c _dev_send_cmd(223): Wrong response: 'ir_state' [E] lib/libflirc/firmware/fw_4.9.c fl_ver4_set_record_api(108): command error When I tried to re-record it and forgot to erase first. Interesting it says paired with 0 0. vwmofo@DiscoPickle:/usr/bin$ ./flirc_util record_api 0x2 0x129 Consumer Usage Table: 0x129 [E] lib/libflirc/firmware/fw_4.0.c fl_ver4_set_interrupt(377): Error: button already exists hit a key on the remote to be paired with 0 0
  10. I seem to have an issue with the windows version of flirc_util. I get weird errors about a wrong version. I'm not at the computer now, but I can copy and paste when I am. Going to try the Linux version and see how that goes in the meantime. And FYI, yes the 297 is decimal. I've tried record_api with 2 129 and it hasn't worked to date, but I suppose that could also be caused by the issue above. It records it as 0 (zero).
  11. I believe they use 172 (KEYCODE_GUIDE). I've spent a lot time (more than I care to admit) on this and neither Logitech or Amazon seen to want to even bother. The old sticks ignore the new code and the new sticks ignore the old code. Looking through all the old forum posts I think it's an issue with not being able to send a keycode higher than 255 at the moment.
  12. Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? If this is the kind of support we're going to get, I'm not getting the warm and fuzzy about my preorder for the Skip 1s.
  13. For anyone else that comes across this in the future, this does not work on the new Fire TV 4k Max, but it does work on every other firestick I have in my house including a regular firestick 4k. I did capture a logcat from my firestick 4k max and this is what happens when I press the guide button on the new remote. KeyEvent { action=ACTION_DOWN, keyCode=KEYCODE_LIVE_TV, scanCode=362, metaState=0, flags=0x8, repeatCount=0, eventTime=260873, downTime=260873, deviceId=7, source=0x301 }, keyCode: 297 I tried manually programing 297 with flirc_util record_api 0 297 and all it does is go home so I'm thinking there must be a modifier but no idea what to try. Was thinking maybe the flags was it, but 8 297 does nothing at all. Anyone have any ideas?
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