Remapping buttons

[howllor 52]

Hi everyone, I just thought I'd share a solution I have found. On my android TV box, I am using Emby as the launcher and with the help of tvQuickActions Pro I have remapped the buttons on the remote so that Emby opens when you press the home button. If you're in a different app and press the home button, you're taken to the the emby page you were most recently on, which is how I want it.

However, when already in Emby, I wanted the home button to take me to the Emby home screen. I tried several different ways to make this work with intents etc, but could never get it to work satisfyingly. Today I decided to take a new stab at it, going though the possible settings of tvQuickActions.

This is what I found worked the way I wanted it to: remap the home button to open Emby on a single press and give it the constraint to only trigger when Emby isn't already in the foreground.

Then add a second button, also make it the home button. Map the single press to a "custom action", add a new custom action that is "input event", with the key code 112 (KEYCODE_MOVE_HOME). Give it the constraint of only trigger with Emby in the foreground.

Now, Emby will open when you're not already in Emby, and if you're already in Emby the home button will take you to the home screen.

I hope this can be useful for someone, and let me know if anyone wants screenshots of my settings.