OnBootKodi (No Root)

Xtraordinair · May 18, 2017

OnBootKodi
OnBootKodi starts Kodi when you start up your device! Also, has the option to start Kodi after a screen timeout period [user set] (If you turn on/off the timeout service, one reboot is required for changes to take effect)

Requirements
-Kodi installed

Changelog
Added timeout support

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XDA:DevDB Information
OnBootKodi, Device Specific App for the Amazon Fire TV

Contributors
Xtraordinair, Xtraordinair
Source Code: https://bitbucket.org/Xtraordinair/onbootkodi/overview

Version Information
Status: Beta

Created 2017-05-18
Last Updated 2017-05-18

fido14dido · May 19, 2017

Thanks. Haven't tried this yet. What happens if I press the Home button on the Fire remote? Do I go back to the Amazon or Kodi screen?

Xtraordinair · May 19, 2017

fido14dido said:
Thanks. Haven't tried this yet. What happens if I press the Home button on the Fire remote? Do I go back to the Amazon or Kodi screen?

Goes to the Amazon home screen, so far only supports loading Kodi on boot and after screen timeout.

Biarritz1959 · May 19, 2017

I have tested your App. Not working on my 5.2.4.1 Fire TV. But keep up the goodwork though.

justjones · May 19, 2017

Working with issue

Xtraordinair said:
Goes to the Amazon home screen, so far only supports loading Kodi on boot and after screen timeout.

Thank you working on my first gen ftv stick with new menu update. However could not interact with it via either the remote or the amazon iOS remote app. Had to uninstall and reboot to stop it booting kodi. Thanx BB

justjones · May 21, 2017

justjones said:
Thank you working on my first gen ftv stick with new menu update. However could not interact with it via either the remote or the amazon iOS remote app. Had to uninstall and reboot to stop it booting kodi. Thanx BB

Fire os 5.2.4.1 Home ver. 5.7.3-17

AFTVnews.com · May 22, 2017

Worked for me on both a Fire TV 1 and Fire TV 2. Both on latest 5.2.4.1 version. But I could not get the timeout option to work. Not sure about the units used, so I tried 1, 1000, and 1000000 but it always just launched immediately after boot each time.

oppman29 · May 24, 2017

Looks like the Time out function is to start kodi after the fire tv has gone to sleep for X amount of time.

AFTVnews.com said:
Worked for me on both a Fire TV 1 and Fire TV 2. Both on latest 5.2.4.1 version. But I could not get the timeout option to work. Not sure about the units used, so I tried 1, 1000, and 1000000 but it always just launched immediately after boot each time.

JUSTINMARMER · May 25, 2017

Doesn't work for SPMC

AFTVnews.com · Jun 8, 2017

OnBootKodi has been blacklisted by Amazon. This means you can only use it if your device is rooted and you've disabled the blacklist.

nyln · Aug 4, 2017

You can modify Kodi to run as a launcher. Then use Launcher Hijack v3 to make it act as the default launcher. It works WITHOUT root.

Patrick_445 · Aug 4, 2017

nyln said:
You can modify Kodi to run as a launcher. Then use Launcher Hijack v3 to make it act as the default launcher. It works WITHOUT root.

How do you turn Kodi into a launcher? And once you have, would pressing the home button on the FireTV remote open Kodi or will it continue to load the Amazon dashboard?

nyln · Aug 5, 2017

Patrick_445 said:
How do you turn Kodi into a launcher? And once you have, would pressing the home button on the FireTV remote open Kodi or will it continue to load the Amazon dashboard?

I am not 100% sure, but I think you can edit the manifest.xml file and add a launcher behavior. Not my specialty. If not you could edit Launcher Hijacks open source code to work with kodi, In the meantime just press home when it turns on and it will load your launcher of choice

.

Y314K · Aug 5, 2017

Patrick_445 said:
How do you turn Kodi into a launcher? And once you have, would pressing the home button on the FireTV remote open Kodi or will it continue to load the Amazon dashboard?

nyln said:
I am not 100% sure, but I think you can edit the manifest.xml file and add a launcher behavior. Not my specialty. If not you could edit Launcher Hijacks open source code to work with kodi, In the meantime just press home when it turns on and it will load your launcher of choice .

Would recommend SPMC with Launcher build in. Might be best option:

https://github.com/koying/SPMC/releases/tag/16.7.1-spmc

Haven't had time to test this option. Post your experience.

TV33 · Sep 12, 2017

Unfortunately OnBootKodi is being blacklisted via Amazon.

I tried to hide Amazon blacklist Service, but it didnt help
pm hide com.amazon.tv.settings/com.amazon.tv.settings.tv.AppDisableService

OnBootKodi is being shown as disabled package after a FireTV reboot which cant be re-enabled due to non-root privileges.

edit1: also deinstalling tv settgins wont help
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.amazon.tv.settings

killerz298 · Dec 3, 2017

TV33 said:
Unfortunately OnBootKodi is being blacklisted via Amazon.

I tried to hide Amazon blacklist Service, but it didnt help
pm hide com.amazon.tv.settings/com.amazon.tv.settings.tv.AppDisableService

OnBootKodi is being shown as disabled package after a FireTV reboot which cant be re-enabled due to non-root privileges.

edit1: also deinstalling tv settgins wont help
pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.amazon.tv.settings

I mentioned this in another thread some time ago but it never gained any traction. It appears Amazon is currently blocking these apps by package name alone. Why don't any of these developers just change the package name to something already in use on the app store that way Amazon can't block it without also blocking the real app?

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