Please show links on google tv

[tOLJY 51]

Any statement I've raised quite a few issues here over the last year about playing YouTube videos through the TV and other things, as well as music videos and other things I haven't raised yet at all 

It's not ideal but 95% of my concerns could be worked around if you would put links on the Google TV UI. These are links that already show up in the Android app at the very bottom of an item. They just don't appear on Google TV at all. Through the use of plugins that allow you to define custom links, I would have a workaround for a lot of my concerns. 

I'm quite happy for this to be disabled by default and then opted in by the users that would actually use it if links on the user interface were annoying to some.

Please consider this for the next release. I can't imagine this logic being anything other than an if statement on what client hardware is - phone versus TV. 

 

Thanksin advance and keep up the awesome work!

[ebr 16326]

6 hours ago, tOLJY said:

Through the use of plugins that allow you to define custom links,

Hi.  I don't think we could ever do this.  It would be incredibly dangerous from a security standpoint and I don't think we could ever get through store policies without a ton of risk there as well.

[tOLJY 51]

There is already a plugin that allows custom links.

The only change to emby would be to show links on the UI...

[ebr 16326]

3 hours ago, tOLJY said:

The only change to emby would be to show links on the UI...

Which is what makes it dangerous and opens us up to store policy scrutiny.

[tOLJY 51]

If that's the case, why is it okay on phone?

[GrimReaper 4878]

2 minutes ago, tOLJY said:

If that's the case, why is it okay on phone?

You're seeing working custom/external links in the Android app?

[tOLJY 51]

Isn't that what ProviderIdsExtender does? Or am I misunderstanding?

Looks like it might only support known links with IDs configured in metadata.

[GrimReaper 4878]

28 minutes ago, tOLJY said:

Isn't that what ProviderIdsExtender does?

Indeed it does. I would assume that plugin would never get approved for the Catalogue.

[tOLJY 51]

So what if I wanted to open a link from Google tv though? Emby already shows imdb links etc, why can't you make an option to allow users to open IMDb from their tv if they want to? How is it any different than another other app opening external links, which they do?

[ebr 16326]

14 hours ago, tOLJY said:

why can't you make an option to allow users to open IMDb from their tv

Exactly how would they "open" IMDb on a TV? 

 

[tOLJY 51]

5 hours ago, ebr said:

Exactly how would they "open" IMDb on a TV? 

 

Wouldn't it open in a browser like it does does on your phone? My tv does have a browser installed.

[ebr 16326]

57 minutes ago, tOLJY said:

My tv does have a browser installed.

Not everyone will and they are very clunky to operate.

[tOLJY 51]

That is why I suggested you put it behind a configuration switch and turn it off by default