Innate Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 I have an Amazon Fire Stick 4k HDR version. Apps like Netflix and HBO Go have their own "Recommends" row on the home screen. They allow you to launch specific content directly without going into the app then selecting the content. It would be great if emby could do this as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 Hi. I'm afraid we cannot do this on the Amazon platform. However, we do have this very type of thing on the Google version for Android TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innate Posted June 26, 2019 Author Share Posted June 26, 2019 Is there a reason it can't be done? https://developer.amazon.com/docs/fire-tv/recommendations-testing.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 Ah, it appears Amazon has changed how this works for them (they used to require centralized content). However, they've done it with an old and deprecated Android API since they are still on an older Android version (pre 8.0). We would have to look into if we can restore the old functionality in the app and enable it for Amazon. Thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 And... this will be in the next release of the app: BTW - these two screen grabs next to each other really points out (again) how much nicer Amazon's presentation is over Google's. Google used to look this nice and, for some reason, they decided to uglify it . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innate Posted June 27, 2019 Author Share Posted June 27, 2019 Awesome news. Thanks. I agree it looks much better on Fire. What you implemented, will it have a row dedicated to movies and a separate one dedicated to tv shows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 What you implemented, will it have a row dedicated to movies and a separate one dedicated to tv shows? No, the way this works on the Fire is they lump everything together. Notice the label on the row. They even combine the content from multiple apps if you have them that do this. I assume HBO etc. worked some sort of special deal with them to get their own rows. Standard Android, when using this old API, would at least show an individual row for each app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innate Posted July 19, 2019 Author Share Posted July 19, 2019 When will this update be pushed out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Sorry, I don't have an exact ETA but we try to target a new release every couple of months. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghaugabrook Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Good Morning, What is the current status of this feature? The current Firestick home screen shows the recommendations of each app as you scroll over the app. When I scroll over Emby, it defaults to other apps customers also downloaded instead of recommendations. It would be awesome feature for upcoming update. Any thoughts or comments? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Hi. This particular feature was released a long time ago. What you are describing sounds like something different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghaugabrook Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Here, I've attached screen shots. As you can see with Netflix recommendations are presented while Emby's is not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samuelqwe Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 I’ve also never seen this feature work as described, so I always assumed it to be a regional limitation since I’m in Canada. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghaugabrook Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 I'm in the US and have not seen this feature work as well. Are there any additional settings that need to be applied in order to initiate function? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 In Android TV, you have to go into the settings and enable apps to appear in these types of lists. Perhaps there is now one of those settings in the Fire as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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