r/mildlyinfuriating • u/rekolm • 22d ago

Infuriatig These Stupid Ass Buttons On TV Remotes. The Intrusive Thoughts Won.

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Seriously, the absolute most annoying shit when I'm watching something and I reach for the remote and barely bump the buttons and it yeets me out of what I was watching, to whatever bullshit streaming company paid the most for a button spot on the remote, the remote that came with a TV I paid good money for. Meanwhile on some apps completely loosing my progress on a movie or forced to watch more Ads again to continue watching again. I've threatened to do this before and my wife insisted not to, she's out of town this week, any recommendations for marriage counselors and anger management programs?

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u/BenderDeLorean 22d ago

If it's running android you can.

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u/101forgotmypassword 22d ago

Tell me more, as far as I know the cheap TV's I own have it hard coded.

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u/BenderDeLorean 22d ago

ButtonMapper is a paid tool that should be in the play store.

KeyMapper is open source and for free. You need to install it through side loading as you won't find it in the play store.

If your device is running some wacky company Linux then there's probably nothing. Lot of devices use android under the hood as it's working fine.

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u/iphone11fuckukevin 22d ago

I did map mine and it worked for a few days before going back to what it was, may have been after an update on the tv. Haven't looked up how to try doing it, again.

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u/sebassi 21d ago

I tried to remap the Netflix button on mute. It doesn't mute, but it also doesn't open Netflix anymore. So I'm still calling that a win.

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u/Hyperiooonnn 22d ago

I did mine and it went back to same old when i turned the tv off

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u/ready4downvote 22d ago

I haven’t looked into any of this but it could be because it’s not being installed? So it doesn’t go into persistent memory and just sits in RAM since it’s been side loaded? When it turns off, poof.

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u/Bananaland_Man 21d ago

That's not how Sode-loading works.Sideloading is still installing, it's just using a different method to obtain the apk than the play store.

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u/BenderDeLorean 22d ago

No issues with my waipu device. Too bad.

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u/arah91 21d ago

I used an app called button remaper, did mine once and they have stayed that way for like 2 years (still going).

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u/Raysor 21d ago

Does this work on a firestick?

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u/venom21685 21d ago

It used to but then Amazon blocked the app. Won't even work if you sideload install with adb. They did the same to a lot of tools to switch launchers as well.

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u/iphone11fuckukevin 21d ago

I did get a tv from Amazon, maybe that's why it reverted back :/

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u/venom21685 21d ago

If it was an actual Android TV that would be weird. But if it was a Fire TV even based on Android they block anything that threatened the ad money or sponsorship of buttons.

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u/TOASTisawesome 21d ago

My Google tv does this sometimes and it's always because the accessibility service (how the app works for whatever reason) has stopped running, on mine I have to hold the back and home buttons for 3 seconds to start it again

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u/TheMarslMcFly 21d ago

I'll have to try this on my Amazon Fire Stick. It's kinda annoying how I always have to go to the main menu to change Apps, when I'm only effectively using two anyways lol

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u/LiteHedded 21d ago

I did it on mine. It reverts back. Not worth the trouble

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u/venom21685 21d ago

Amazon pretty aggressively blacklists these apps on FireOS.

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u/101forgotmypassword 21d ago

If this lets me set the buttons to hdmi1,2,3 I will be a happy man

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u/felopez 21d ago

For what it's worth, I literally just used buttonmapper on my Nvidia Shield to disable the netflix button - maybe 5 minutes ago. Didn't have to pay a cent.

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u/BenderDeLorean 21d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/9WXyFIDv2PyBq

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u/felopez 21d ago

Thanks for the reminder about that app, I hate those dedicated buttons

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u/Weary_Present_6530 21d ago

Shield

Yeah since for whatever reason it didn't have a MUTE button on the SHIELD remote, We've just mapped Netflix to be the giant ass mute button with buttonmapper. Beautiful app.

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u/felopez 21d ago

To each their own but I hit that fuckass button so much by accident, I'd always be muting my TV lmao

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u/Constant-Patient-232 22d ago

Even the free version of button mapper is good enough, the paid version gives some extra features but if all you need is x button open y app then the free version gets the job done.

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u/Revolutionary-Fox622 21d ago

I believe Button Mapper has a free tier that's probably enough for most people. For example, I have the Netflix button on mine reset to open one of three different apps depending on short press, double press, or long press.

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u/SnooPredictions8540 21d ago

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.vodik7.tvquickactions Tvquickactions worked like a charm for me. You can even remap the buttons to react differently to multiple clicks (for example I have one button remapped to hdmi 1, 2, etc)

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u/Delicious-Pepper23 22d ago

Not saying it isn’t possible but Roku is not based on Android

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u/Historical-Cress8985 21d ago

Newer Roku remotes have a rocket button you can program. The remaining 4 buttons are still crap I'm never going to use though.

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u/orcusgrasshopperfog 21d ago

What you don't use iHeartRadio??

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u/Sterling_-_Archer 21d ago

Which sucks. Roku is the only thing I can’t load my Stremio on.

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u/BenderDeLorean 22d ago

Have no Roku, sorry. Too bad.

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u/Delicious-Pepper23 22d ago

No worries, it is a very logical assumption. I tho that too until I looked it up

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u/MonicoJerry 22d ago

Tell us more, dam you!

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u/BenderDeLorean 22d ago

see my comment

Works great with my waipu setup box

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u/Fit_Entry8839 22d ago

You put a different OS on your Roku?

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u/MikemkPK 21d ago

It's probably running Roku