LG Magic Remote Channel Up/Down

[ivanrakic 4]

Hello,

I recently purchased Emby Premiere and noticed a change in the behavior of the LG Magic Remote channel up/down buttons.

Previously, after selecting “Play from here” in a folder view, the channel up/down buttons would move to the next or previous video in the folder. Now, those same buttons appear to navigate chapters within the currently playing video instead.

I am trying to understand whether:

• This behavior changed after activating the Premiere subscription, or

• It was introduced by a recent update, or

• This behavior may never have existed on LG TVs and only worked this way on Android clients.

Additionally, would it be possible to introduce a settings option that allows users to choose what the channel up/down buttons control (e.g., chapter navigation vs. next/previous item)?

Thank you for your time and clarification.

[Luke 42409]

@SamES

[SamES 1095]

It's due to a recent change for the channel up/down keys.  It should always have been changing channels during video playback, but was incorrectly changing prev/next.

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/142706-lg-remote-numbers/#findComment-1472058

Do you have these buttons visible on the OSD, they will skip to prev/next episodes

 

 

[ivanrakic 4]

Sorry for the late reply.

The OSD previous/next buttons are very inconsistent for me. Sometimes they appear, sometimes they don’t.
I have a lot of music videos, and I used to quickly go through them using the Channel Up/Down buttons on the remote. Now those buttons cycle through (auto-generated) chapters instead, which is not useful in my case.

Is it possible to customize the behavior of remote buttons so the user can choose what they do? Alternatively, is there a way to remap these functions manually, or use other available buttons on the remote for this purpose?

Thanks.

[SamES 1095]

The visibility of some of the OSD buttons depends on detection of a mouse or the LG magic pointer. 
 

Check the app settings, there is a setting possibly under Display or Playback where you can set the transport button visibility. Try setting it to ‘always show’

[SamES 1095]

And Prev/Next buttons will only ever appear if there are Prev or Next items, so Prev won’t show for the first item in a queue, and neither will show if playing a single item. 

[ivanrakic 4]

Thanks for the reply. The OSD buttons are now always visible and they do work, but the convenience of a single button press on the remote to switch to the next/previous item, compared to multiple presses (bring up OSD, select previous/next, then confirm), is lacking.

So, is it correct that this behavior will not return in a future version via a settings toggle (e.g., using Channel Up/Down for chapters or next/previous item)? If not, how can I downgrade to a previous version of the app that supported this? I don’t mind using an older version, as this is my primary use case.

[SamES 1095]

4 minutes ago, ivanrakic said:

Thanks for the reply. The OSD buttons are now always visible and they do work, but the convenience of a single button press on the remote to switch to the next/previous item, compared to multiple presses (bring up OSD, select previous/next, then confirm), is lacking.

So, is it correct that this behavior will not return in a future version via a settings toggle (e.g., using Channel Up/Down for chapters or next/previous item)? If not, how can I downgrade to a previous version of the app that supported this? I don’t mind using an older version, as this is my primary use case.

Just to confirm for me, what does Channel Up/Down do for you now, and what do you want it to do?  Please also confirm the type of item you are playing? Ie: are you referring to next/prev episodes.  Thanks

[ivanrakic 4]

Right now Channel Up/Down takes me to the next/previous chapter of the current video. Before this update it was acting as play next/previous video in the queue.

I did not test it on TV shows (episodes), I only have library of music videos (type set for the library is Home Videos and Photos).

[SamES 1095]

23 minutes ago, ivanrakic said:

Right now Channel Up/Down takes me to the next/previous chapter of the current video. Before this update it was acting as play next/previous video in the queue.

I did not test it on TV shows (episodes), I only have library of music videos (type set for the library is Home Videos and Photos).

Thanks, I'll double check tonight, but I think this might be resolved in the next update

[ivanrakic 4]

 Awesome, thanks a lot.

I believe the change was made because some users requested it, which is why I think a toggle in the settings would be a good compromise.

[SamES 1095]

On 19/01/2026 at 22:44, ivanrakic said:

This behavior may never have existed on LG TVs and only worked this way on Android clients.

I've test back several releases and I don't think it's ever worked this way on LG.  Channel up/down during a series episode appears to always select prev/next chapters, not items. 

@Luke, what's the correct behaviour here when using channel up/down during a series episode?  Should it be selecting prev/next chapter, or prev/next item?  Does the Android client work the same way, or should LG be navigating items and not chapters? When watching LiveTV, channel up/down is correctly changing channels.