GregC

Hi videostorm, I know this probably doesn't rank too high on your priority list, but it would be awesome if you could add "Youtube TV" to your driver tables. We had a decent size power outage today so I had to manually add values to the driver when systems rebooted. thanks in advance!

our posts must have passed each other on the network thanks for the prompt reply. appreciate your effort.

Hi videostorm, I solved the problem with the Custom mini driver. The component name i was using for YoutubeTV was wrong. It should have been: com.google.android.youtube.tvunplugged.MainActivity;end so the Custom mini driver worked when I changed the table values to: QLAUNCH android-app://com.google.android.youtube.tvunplugged#Intent;component=com.google.android.youtube.tvunplugged.MainActivity;end When you have a chance can you permanently add YoutubeTV to the main driver so that it remains there even after a restart. Thanks!!!!!

Hi Videostom, I've installed the latest driver (v1.3). Thanks for adding AmazonVideo to the tables. Unfortunately it looks like YoutubeTV (not to be confused with the regular Youtube) wasn't added. I'm trying to get YoutubeTV working using the Custom Apps field and/or the Custom mini driver, but I haven't had success. Here's what I've done: I first found the Package name and Component name from logcat. Package name = com.google.android.youtube.tvunplugged and Component name= com.google.android.youtube.tvunplugged/.MainActivity;end I then updated the tables using the following commands: urltableaf["YoutubeTV"]="QLAUNCH android-app://com.google.android.youtube.tvunplugged#Intent;component=com.google.android.youtube.tvunplugged/.MainActivity;end\r" urltablegp["YoutubeTV"]="QLAUNCH android-app://com.google.android.youtube.tvunplugged#Intent;component=com.google.android.youtube.tvunplugged/.MainActivity;end\r" I then ran for k, v in pairs(urltableaf) do dbg("Key: " .. k .. " Value: " .. v) end and for k, v in pairs(urltablegp) do dbg("Key: " .. k .. " Value: " .. v) end and confirmed that both tables were updated with: Key: YoutubeTV Value: QLAUNCH android-app://com.google.android.youtube.tvunplugged#Intent;component=com.google.android.youtube.tvunplugged/.MainActivity;end I then tried the Customer mini driver so that I could list YoutubeTV on the watch menu. I used com.google.android.youtube.tvunplugged as the App ID When I select YoutubeTV from the watch menu nothing happens on the Shield. Here is the output of the log: When the Custom mini driver didn't work I tried the Custom App field in the main driver. In the Custom App 1 field I put: QLAUNCH android-app://com.google.android.youtube.tvunplugged#Intent;component=com.google.android.youtube.tvunplugged/.MainActivity;end\r and then selected Custom App1 in the Red Button dropdown. When I click the Red Button on the C4 remote nothing happens on the Shield. Here is the output from the log: Received from Proxy: PROGRAM_A; on Binding: 5001 Parameter: ROOM_ID; value: 364 Implement RED function... Send RS232 command (QLAUNCH android-app://com.google.android.youtube.tvunplugged#Intent;component=com.google.android.youtube.tvunplugged/.MainActivity;end\r I'm stumped as to what I'm doing wrong. Can you please let me know? Or better yet can you update the driver with native YoutubeTV support. thanks!

Thanks. I got Amazon working following your instructions. Here's to hoping we don't get a reboot before you update the driver thanks again!

Now it makes sense why I hit a brickwall. I tried modifying your driver to add values to the tables but Driver Editor said it was encrypted and that I couldn’t edit. Sooo... can you add values to your tables such that Amazon Video and YoutubeTv will work when using the Custom App minidriver with the following app_ids: com.amazon.amazonvideo.livingroom.nvidia com.google.android.youtube.tvunplugged You’ve really enabled the ultimate solution for a streaming/media player solution on Control4. Thank you very much!!!! btw - any thoughts on where I might be going wrong on the Custom App syntax I posted above?

Videostorm, I reread your reply and am now wondering... Are you saying that the app_id in the minidriver is not necessarily the app_id used to launch the app and that your driver only uses it to kick off a couple lookups to try to determine the correct app_id? If that's true and your lookup doesn't yield a match will it then fail to send the command to the Shield because when I tried nonsense app_ids nothing showed up in the adb debug log,?

Thanks for the prompt reply. I am indeed using the Video Storm c4z driver with the Amazon minidrivers, including the Custom_App minidiver. I'm very excited about getting this to work because I can now run everything off 1 box which really streamlines installation and maintenance and a customer can choose what to watch right from the Watch menu. I confirmed that app type was set correctly to "Google Play TV". I understand what you're saying about leaving the app_ids alone and letting your driver do the lookups but the Hulu minidriver must not have been finding the right app_id because it wasn't working. It was easy enough to edit the minidriver with the right app_id so I went for it and it worked. I'm trying to get the following apps to work under the Watch menu: Netflix, Hulu, Kodi, Amazon Video, YoutubeTV (not Youtube) - Netflix minidriver worked fine out of the box with no editing or anything. - Hulu minidriver needed to be edited to com.hulu.livingroomplus from com.hulu.plus using the C4 Driver Editor. Once I did that it worked great. - There is no Kodi minidriver so I used the Custom_App minidriver and set the App ID to org.xbmc.kodi. Works great and I'll add a logo later. - The Amazon Video minidriver had an app_id of com.amazon.avod and didn't work so I edited to com.amazon.amazonvideo.livingroom.nvidia and it still didn't work. I then tried using the Custom_App minidirver and setting the app_id to com.amazon.amazonvideo.livingroom.nvidia. That didn't work either. I'm at a loss on this one. - There is no YoutubeTV mini driver so I used the Custom_App minidriver and set the app_id to com.google.android.youtube.tvunplugged. Unfortunately that didn't work so I'm at a loss again. Any chance you can look into Amazon Video and YoutubeTV and let me know what I'm missing? thanks again! PS I also tried the Custom App 1 field in the driver. I copied the syntax of a known successful app launch from the adb debug log but I still couldn't get it to fire. I used: QLAUNCH android-app://com.hulu.livingroomplus#Intent;component=com.hulu.livingroomplus/.MainActivity;end and then tried adding "\r" based on your documentation. neither worked.

I spoke too soon... I can't get YoutubeTV to work with the Custom_App mini driver either If anyone can provide some guidance on Amazon Video or YoutubeTV that would be awesome. I know what the App IDs are (com.google.android.youtube.tvunplugged and com.amazon.amazonvideo.livingroom.nvidia) but when I use them there is no response from the Shield: Please help. Thanks! btw - Kodi (org.xbmc.kodi), Netflix (com.netflix.ninja) and Hulu (com.hulu.livingroomplus) all work fine using their respective App IDs in the Custom_App mini driver.

irUSB works great for IP control of the Shield. Nice work I had to tweak some of the mini drivers to get them to work because some of the App IDs are different for the Shield vs FireTv (hulu is one example). I'm able to get pretty much any user installed app to fire from the Watch menu using the FireTv Custom_App driver, but i haven't been able to get a system app to work, such as Amazon Prime Video. Videostorm or Alanchow, any help getting Amazon Prime Video to work would be greatly appreciated. thanks!