Latest version - I’m unable to clear the bound key for the new “Map key to home” option on my Nvidia Shield. It says to use the STOP button to clear the bound key, but the Nvidia Shield’s remote does not have a STOP button
Also I think I’ve found a small bug. When changing audio/subtitles tracks from the pre-play screen, once you’ve selected either the audio or subtitles option, pressing the back button doesn’t do anything. The only way to go back is to select one of the available audio/subtitle options.
Good observation, even though I use the same device daily, it never occurred to me. I develop on Windows kodi and that feature was meant for users with a Harmony or some other “bigger” remotes that support non “core” buttons.
I’ll add a clear option with CONTEXT_MENU/long press. That’s the last remaining one I can use for this.
Awesome, probably oversight on my part. Thank you.
Edit: if you want to unmap that button, go to your userdata/addon_data/script.plexmod folder and set the setting to None (I think, might be “none”, on my mobile right now) in settings.xml. The setting name probably starts with “map”, I can’t remember.
Edit 2: long pressing back would be great as a default to-home button as well. Not sure if I can get that to work, though. As a workaround one could map kodi via keyboard.xml to call another action on long press back and then that can be bound in PM4K.
The latest beta is great, and the jump to home feature is working very well. I haven’t hit a back out of settings or any black screen yet since loading it.
I installed 0.78 no dialog box. Uninstalled and reinstalled, restarted Kodi, no dialog box. Installed version 0.77 and got the dialog box changed the network setting to Always and then restarted Kodi and the firestick and tried again and it still doesn’t find the server. Tried some even older versions and no dialog and no setting to change in network, none work. So looks like 0.77 is the closest to working on a firestick on Kodi 21 but none of them allow me to access my server. I tried the GDM setting and that made no difference either.
I’m wondering if you are by any chance with isp Talk Talk using their supplied router. Neither myself or my son could get a connection to our servers until we replaced our routers.
This is jfyi, as I don’t know if both actions would conflict with each other or not.
Edit: On 0.7.9-beta15.2, I’ve just mapped OSMC remote’s home key to bring me back to PM4K’s home and it works pretty well. Previous default home key’s action was the same of the back key, which I didn’t like. Thank you for this very useful new feature.
Btw clear bound key also works pretty well now.
Only wanted to say that the new home shortcut function is perfectly working. Mapped it to the three lines button on my fire TV remote.
Only the unbinding of the key does not work due to missing stop button on the remote. Maybe that could be optimized - e.g. you need to press the desired button within 10 sec. Otherwise it gets defaulted to blank or another logic?.
I am having some bugs with the recent versions and recent plextuary skin:
When pausing the video I can see the UI / seekbar etc. at the top of the screen and the default UI at the bottom. The one at the top is in the background and disappears in some seconds.
When selecting video settings and then trying to switch audio the back button does not work. Same on video quality / subtitle selections etc. Only confirm / OK works
The next beta will allow unbinding by using CONTEXT_MENU/long press as well. Not sure if clearing the button when you let the 10 seconds pass is the right UI approach. I’d say that I’d expect the setting not to change if I don’t do anything.
Fixed in the next beta.
That is super weird. Which version of plextuary do you have? I can’t reproduce this.
If you’re using CoreELEC and want to use sleep/wake functionality, and PM4K dies on wake (probably together with your system), use “Restart PM4K” as action on wake. This is due to the network not being up when PM4K gets reactivated and the complete subsystem failing. This is a workaround. This should be fixed by CoreELEC.
I can confirm this bug using plextuary skin 4.0.0-pm4k1.1 and 0.7.9 beta 15.2 shown in the screenshot below. It didn’t show up when paused as I have some of the ui spoiler remove things turned on (to not show remaining time and such) I had to display episode info while paused then at the top of the screen you can see the kodi gui bits (Show name, tiime and such. Though I don’t see the seekbar.
Yeah OK, that’s fine, I didn’t fix that (missed it). But on normal pause, without info, the kodi UI shouldn’t shine through (unless I messed up the version somehow, but I’m using it myself without that issue).
I’m not sure if the question was for me as it came in the middle of something I’ve not been involved with. Anyway, I’m on Kodi 22 (CoreELEC New Order). Sorry but I don’t use Plextuary
This is quite a major step. I’ve discovered that certain requests we make, don’t use a timeout. Depending on the system, this could mean a full socket hang for minutes or longer, seemingly “taking down the system” as everything hangs, depending on the OS (in case of CoreELEC it feels like a full freeze).
This should fix all onWake issues, especially on CoreELEC.
It also means potentially much improved handling of internet hickups/disconnects/packetloss.
Temporary Changelog:
Core: Fix hang after sleep/wake when network isn’t immediately available on CoreELEC
Core/Networking: Fix certain queries not timing out (thanks @evertonmdz for testing)
Core/Networking/MyPlex: Retry myplex query on account initialization 4 times; use util.LONG_TIMEOUT (default: 20s) for data and util.TIMEOUT (default: 5s) for connecting
Core/Networking/AddonSettings: Set requests max_retries to 3 by default (was 1)
Settings: Correctly slide the description to the left as well, when editing a select setting
Don’t Panic Repository: pushed skin.plextuary pm4k-1.2 (never shows backdrops, fix backdrop/UI shining through in InfoScreen; remove OSDBackgroundPause setting)
Ah right forgot that - I am currently using Kodi 22 and the recent plextuary.
The show backdrop settings was new to me - maybe it was already activated or I did that by accident. Thanks for the tip.
Maybe I am not the only one with that issue so if not needed - as stated by you - it would be better if removed
Great app, thanks, especially with new updates. One thing I miss about the official Plex app is the ability to rewind a certain number of seconds after unpausing so I didn’t miss spoken words. I did have an automation to key press left to go back 10 seconds, but I had it on 3, was way better and quicker experience. Any chance of adding something like this?
Can’t this be achieved by setting the addon to use Kodi skip steps (add-on settings, not the in use settings you access under your user name) and then amending the skip steps so there’s a back 3 second one through Kodi advanced settings?
