FiredTV Launcher - Replacement Home/Launcher

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Annunneo

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Xmassacrex said:
I have been looking/trying other launchers but they were all either to awkward to use on the fire tv. Or they just didnt work properly. Any chance of a link to the play store for the launcher please as when i look there are several matching square launcher? Thanks for your help
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It's the square launcher tablet edition.

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My apologies it's squarehome tablet edition. Here's the link
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ss.squarehome&hl=en .
 
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jamboss said:
It's the square launcher tablet edition.

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My apologies it's squarehome tablet edition. Here's the link
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ss.squarehome&hl=en .
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Thanks for the link. Will give it a go. Cant wait for someone to get the official android tv launcher working (if ever)
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Probably a basic question, but how do i use the squarehome launcher as the default launcher? Thanks
 
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Annunneo

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Xmassacrex said:
Thanks for the link. Will give it a go. Cant wait for someone to get the official android tv launcher working (if ever)
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Probably a basic question, but how do i use the squarehome launcher as the default launcher? Thanks
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I use firetv helper app and I must say it works great. When I press the home button it takes me to squarehome. I'll post a link to the thread.

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Here's the thread. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3020515

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jamboss said:
I use firetv helper app and I must say it works great. When I press the home button it takes me to squarehome. I'll post a link to the thread.

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Here's the thread. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3020515

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Fantastic. Exactly what I was after. Time to customise squarehome. Thanks for you help. Appreciate it
 
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loughrey101 said:
After installing the latest Amazon Fire firmware, Fired TV doesn't activate when the home button is pressed, instead it returns to the official Fire home screen, making Fired TV useless. Please make a fix for this to make it compatible with the latest firmware!
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I use a Llama command to do my startup and home button launch back to my firedtv menu ( , so I don’t have to keep clicking the remote to get back to the setting to launch the firedtv app after I hit the home button by mistake.

I use a Llama command
When the current app is KFTV Laucher – delay for 30 seconds and then run FiredTV

The only problem I see sometimes is it won’t launch on startup.
So I just click the down arrow a couple of clicks and hit the home button and it launches is about 30 seconds. Seem to run ok after that.
I set the delay to 30 seconds to have a way to get into other apps in case something doesn’t go right one day (An app is updated or remove ect..).

If you or anyone needs a step by step instruction, just ask and I will post how to setup up the commands in Llama.
 
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goldmine said:
I use a Llama command to do my startup and home button launch back to my firedtv menu ( , so I don’t have to keep clicking the remote to get back to the setting to launch the firedtv app after I hit the home button by mistake.

I use a Llama command
When the current app is KFTV Laucher – delay for 30 seconds and then run FiredTV

The only problem I see sometimes is it won’t launch on startup.
So I just click the down arrow a couple of clicks and hit the home button and it launches is about 30 seconds. Seem to run ok after that.
I set the delay to 30 seconds to have a way to get into other apps in case something doesn’t go right one day (An app is updated or remove ect..).

If you or anyone needs a step by step instruction, just ask and I will post how to setup up the commands in Llama.
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Yes, please post a step by step on how you use Llama with fired tv. I'd like to give it a try. :)
 
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cOmm_718 said:
Yes, please post a step by step on how you use Llama with fired tv. I'd like to give it a try. :)
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When the current app is KFTV Laucher – delay for 30 seconds and then run FiredTV

Launch Llama
Click Event on top
Click + in Event tab at the bottom of the screen

Click Add Condition
Click Active application
Choose an app (KFTV Launcher)
Status leave at ( App started or in foreground ) and click Ok

Click Add Action
Click Run Application Choose ( FiredTv or what ever app you wish to launch to.) FiredTv is the App Menu I use.

Click Advanced:
Click Delay Event to enable it
Set Delay Seconds : 30 Seconds
Click Cancel Delay if False

Done - Back out of Llama

To disable this command in the future just launch Llama and open the event you just made and uncheck the enable box or just delete the event if you will not be using it again.
 
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FriedTV on Home Screen of FireTV/Stick

I just bought the app Firedtv v1.1.5 on amazon website even though not compatible with firetv/stick, then sideloaded the FriedTV 1.1.5 to my Firetv and then went to my account on firetv sync content. BAM ! Friedtv on homescreen of my Firetv, same procedure works for kodi which was posted by someone here. ENJOY !
 
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I'm running 1.1.5 of FiredTV. I am having an issue with some apps that playback video content. Kodi works fine, however Hulu Plus does not.

When I play a video, I get a black screen (with any logo overlays visible) with full audio.

If I force close FIreTV and launch Hulu, everything works as it should. Relaunch FiredTV and launch Hulu, I'm back to the blank screen and audio. So it appears to be something FiredTV related.

A Disneyland app also has the same problem when trying to play back video. I get the audio, but no video if FiredTV is running.

This is with the Amazon FireTV Stick.
 
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Just got my firetvs in the mail and setup my tv and one of my sticks.. I have firedtv there and when I launch it it opens up however that is it. When I hit the home button I go to the normal fire tv page and I have to go through the applications menu to open firedtv (its just as easy to go through the applications and launch the app I want).. Maybe I am missing something. My understanding was that you did not require a root and you just opened it and it worked (maybe something has to be configured with Lama??

Can someone help me out..

Thanks a lot
 
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88wildman88 said:
Just got my firetvs in the mail and setup my tv and one of my sticks.. I have firedtv there and when I launch it it opens up however that is it. When I hit the home button I go to the normal fire tv page and I have to go through the applications menu to open firedtv (its just as easy to go through the applications and launch the app I want).. Maybe I am missing something. My understanding was that you did not require a root and you just opened it and it worked (maybe something has to be configured with Lama??

Can someone help me out..

Thanks a lot
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Ive never gotten it too work 100 % on its own i now use it with llama and viewster as the sacrificial launcher.
just make an action when viewster is run open up fired tv.
Hope that helps.

Magnoman
 
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MS79

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Please add folders or groups to the FiredTV Launcher. I want so sort my apps.

By the way, the sort function is not working as it should.
 
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loughrey101

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Can you please update this app as the reordering doesn't work like all the other updates? It moves up about three or four apps and then it starts moving another app. Why can't you get this issue fixed after all the updates that were created to fix this issue? Also the custom background has never worked, it keeps downloading forever and there is no way to stop it, forcing you to reboot the Fire TV every time.
 
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my fire tv is going back for replacement so i need to know how to remove tvlauncher? my system won't allow me to go into installed apps, so I'm lost

need to remove this before i send it back for replacement

thanks
 
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J2048b said:
my fire tv is going back for replacement so i need to know how to remove tvlauncher? my system won't allow me to go into installed apps, so I'm lost

need to remove this before i send it back for replacement

thanks
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If you can still open/install ES File Explorer it can be easily be found & uninstalled from Homepage / Apps .

OR If you can still ADB into the your FTV then just follow the "Update Process" instructions available in the FiredTV GitHub.

https://github.com/Redth/FiredTVLauncher#update-process

Update Process

To update to a newer version of this app, first you must uninstall the old version.

You can do this on the FireTV itself (Settings > Applications > Manage Installed Applications > FireTV Launcher > Uninstall)

Or, you can use adb:

Code: 
    adb connect xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to connect to your FireTV where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of your FireTV
    adb uninstall com.altusapps.firedtvlauncher
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    FiredTV Launcher is a 'replacement' for Amazon's Home/Launcher app which does not show sideloaded apps.
    Visit the project page for more information (including source code): https://github.com/Redth/FiredTVLauncher

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    How does it work?
    While it's not possible (yet/without root) to actually replace the launcher app, FiredTV effectively does this by watching for Amazon's launcher being opened, and then immediately launches itself. Because of this, you will see Amazon's home screen flash on the screen very briefly after pressing the home button, before FiredTV Launcher appears.

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    You will need to sideload the app. There are many guides available how to do this on the forums.

    Once the app has been installed, go into your FireTV Settings, go into Applications, find 'FiredTV' in the list, select it, and select 'Launch Application'

    Enjoy!

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    If you looked at the source, you may have noticed that there's no Java. That's because this was written entirely in C# using Xamarin! C# is awesome, go use Xamarin!

    What's next?
    Obviously this launcher is very simple, and there's not much to it. I'm planning on adding some Settings configuration within the app, so you can do things like hide apps, reorder them, hide labels, change colors, etc.



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    - New Icon/Name for FireTV Home 'app'
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    v1.1.4
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    v1.1.3
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    Redth
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    Here's what is in the upcoming release:
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    • FiredTV Logo removed (it was ugly)
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    • Adjustable transparency levels of the top info bar, background behind app icons, background behind app label
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    This indeed is legit. I figured I'd throw it up on the store and if anyone wants there for ease of downloading they can get it.
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