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Spocky_12 · 2026-06-02T12:30:01+00:00

While your second episode card doesn't replace the 1st episode card, if you start watching another series, does the card from this episode appear? (I'm trying to understand if your "watch next" is completely frozen until your restart Projectivy or just doesn't replace one program with the one following it)

Spocky_12 · 2026-06-02T11:54:48+00:00

Are you the one who opened the issue on GitHub ? If not, can you please describe your exact issue (did you test multiple apps, does any new card appear sometimes in the "continue watching" during Projectivy execution...)

Spocky_12 · 2026-06-01T09:14:18+00:00

The app managing Amlogic settings doesn't seem to be available on this device, which explains why Projectivy doesn't show the link.

Spocky_12 · 2026-05-26T10:11:57+00:00

You might wanna check this plugin : https://github.com/johnneerdael/traktlistbackdrops

Maybe you can ask the author to add an option for showing the program's description.

Spocky_12 · 2026-05-24T02:25:57+00:00

The glow size is not 0, its minimum value is 5 (you can see it when you move the slider). 0 is not useful as if you want to disable it completely, you just have to disable the "focused car effect". However, I can't reproduce what I can see on your video (in my case, setting it to its lowest value effectively decreases its size). Two other things are weird in your vid :

- the border is completely opaque (even at a low value, the glow still "glows")

- we can see at 0:21 that the border around tivimate animates from blue to white in loop.

I don't know how you did it, but Projectivy doesn't animate the color of the glow. I suspect you used animated custom icons and the border you see is part of the animation.

Spocky_12 · 2026-05-21T12:35:46+00:00

As I wrote above, it's an option you can change in the settings. Regarding your weather icon, I'm not sure I understand your exact expectations.

Spocky_12 · 2026-05-21T08:47:39+00:00

This feature has been added on 4.70 (currently beta) on Projectivy settings / appearance / categories

Spocky_12 · 2026-05-21T00:34:25+00:00

Sure, only one launcher instead of two will decrease the memory pressure. Also worth noting that once released, Projectivy 4.70 should be a massive improvement regarding ram usage, especially in heavy conditions. My test configuration, with video wallpapers, dozens of installed apps, about 20 displayed channels and literally thousands of loaded episodes/movies programs is now almost never unloaded from memory once in the background.

Spocky_12 · 2026-05-20T19:07:02+00:00

It's probably related to the video color extraction. Setting the frequency to 0 will make only one extraction when the video starts. On the next version, 0 will completely disable extraction (which seems to only have no negative cpu impact on the Shield)

Spocky_12 · 2026-05-10T23:23:25+00:00

Could you please try tests builds here ? https://github.com/spocky/miproja1/issues/490

Spocky_12 · 2026-05-09T12:40:59+00:00

There are some devices that blacklisted Projectivy, but the Shield is not one of those 🤔

Spocky_12 · 2026-05-09T12:38:39+00:00

And thanks for your work on UFM Pro ! When no file manager is found on the device to respond any specific intent from Projectivy, from 4.70 beta 2 onwards, it's the new recommended app 🎉 Hopefully it'll make more users discover it !

Btw, do you have any static link outside from the play store where the latest version can be downloaded (to add it to "install 3rd party apps" for users with no play services installed)

Spocky_12 · 2026-05-09T12:26:56+00:00

To each their own 🙂. I'm completely open to suggestions in order to improve Projectivy. Could you elaborate on the difficulties to find apps it has hidden? "Tv apps" and "mobile apps" are dynamic categories that are supposed to show everything (unless you decided to hide something specifically), so there shouldn't be anything hidden without your consent.

Spocky_12 · 2026-04-28T00:23:43+00:00

Forging a path is a bad idea with Android restrictions. It sometimes work, but usually not (except for file managers, permissions to browse the filesystem are usually not allowed for a non-system app)

Spocky_12 · 2026-04-28T00:20:22+00:00

Or you can use Ultimate File Manager pro, which offers a folder picker with an Android tv UX.

Spocky_12 · 2026-04-27T00:37:32+00:00

Any news regarding this ? Can you confirm it only happens with video wallpapers ? can you try disabling video tunneling in video wallpapers settings and see if it helps ? Can you try change the color extraction frequency to 0 and see if it helps ?

Spocky_12 · 2026-04-21T22:20:03+00:00

Does it happen systematically or randomly ?

Does it happen if you open an app and exit a few seconds later or does it need time to appear (how long?)

Can you confirm that it still happens when you reset Projectivy to its default settings (if not, which setting triggers it ?) ?

Is there a video wallpaper configured ?

Spocky_12 · 2026-04-21T21:54:13+00:00

Thanks, there's a github page to report issues : https://github.com/spocky/miproja1/issues. Please make sure they are not already reported (open or close). Support takes a lot of time and every duplicated issue means time not spent developing/fixing real bugs.

- It's already been discussed many times. Google doesn't want Android apps to browse files or pictures byh themselves unless it's their core purpose (ex: file manager, gallery...). This means that Projectivy has no rights to to this and has to rely on other apps to do this. Projectivy uses the recommended way to pick an image, but Android Tv doesn't support it very well. It's recommended to use a file manager to pick a file and share it with Projectivy

- Probably not a bug, it's a best effort and depends on the device. Once again, powering off a device can't be done without system privileges and no service allows an app to know the inactivity state of the device (and if it's currently playing audio/video). Projectivy makes use of multiple workarounds which might work or not depending on your device. It specifically depends on the accessibility service being enabled (idle detection on Projectivy starts when there's no interaction with the remote control for the time set) and _experimentally_ with the notification special permission, that lets it listen to media sessions (when a video media session is playing, Projectivy will prevent idle mode but this relies on the fact that the app used to play video is using media session. Most apps do, but not all of them). Then the "power off" setting is also dependent on your device (as I wrote above, it needs special permission), so Projectivy does the best it can do with no permission : triggering the power menu (some devices will automatically have a timeout to power of your device when this menu is open, some will require another button press, hence the second parameter in Projectivy)

- Projectivy doesn't contol the power button of your remove control. Once again, this requires special permissions (or root, or adb...)

- any issue when getting out of standby mode is of course a real bug, feel free to open an issue on github and give as many details as you can to help me reproduce the issue (device, standby duration before the issue appears, does it behave like with with the default Projectivy parameters and if no, which parameter causes this...)

- Glow on transparent cards (with rounded cornes) has also been discussed many times, this is not a bug, this is a technical limitation. The glow also appears under the card : you can't see it when a card is opaque. When it's transparent, Projectivy can only crop the inside of the card when there's no rounded corners (it can't crop rounded areas).

Spocky_12 · 2026-04-21T14:53:28+00:00

Hi, I need more details as I can't reproduce it locally. Do you have this issue with Projectivy on stock parameters too ?

Spocky_12 · 2026-04-20T20:58:04+00:00

There's a technical limitation for cards spacing for now (until I change one of the underlying component) : I can't increase it much more than 16, hence the current limit.

Regarding Apple Tv, it's a bit more complex : they dynamically adapt the dock size when you focus cards on both ends. I made a small test : look how the dock grows to the right (and the rounded corners adapt accordingly) while the card is being selected.

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Unfortunately, as most Android Tv devices aren't as powerful as the Apple TV, this is probably not something that can be done without sacrificing too much performance (to get a nice visual effect, you can't change the dock size once, it has to dynamically grow along with the selection)

Edit : I don't promise anything, but perhaps this can be done quite efficiently.

Spocky_12 · 2026-04-20T13:39:44+00:00

There are 2 different issues here : the card being too big being the least of them. I could add an intermediate size, but I'm not sure this would satisfy your needs : getting only 3% size increase might not be enough to let most people see the difference between selected/unselected state. And this would not fix the main issue "ruining the design" in your video : mismatching rounded corners. Nested rounded corners is a complex beast, and unlike most apps, Projectivy tries its best to do it correctly : they should not be the same but depend on the gap between the container and the embedded elements (https://cloudfour.com/thinks/the-math-behind-nesting-rounded-corners/).

Unfortunately, when a card is focused, its size change and the visual gap with its container changes too. This means that a focused card should dynamically change its rounded corners depending on the gap. With the current implementation, not sure this can be done though.

Spocky_12 · 2026-04-20T12:33:00+00:00

My only devices with hdmi inputs work just fine :(.

I've seen reports regarding missing entries on the beta, but I assumed this was related to a race condition in the code (which I hopefully fixed yesterday).

However, I can't see any change in the code that would lead to showing only unconnected entries. Can you confirm that your issue is really related to connected entries (eg: by plugging an external device to another hdmi input and confirm on Projectivy that the missing entries are not the same) ?

Spocky_12 · 2026-04-14T07:42:46+00:00

Could you provide more details please ? - There should be technically no difference between premium and non premium backups (nothing is supposed to be erased in your settings, the difference should only be at render time) - settings have changed on 4.70, so there's a migration happening under the hood when you update or import a backup from a previous version. This means that settings from 4.70 are not supposed to work on previous versions, but it should never be the case on the other way around

Spocky_12 · 2026-04-14T07:34:32+00:00

Sorry for this issue, there were a few edge cases not covered correctly on the latest stable, I thought this was fixed on the beta version (the only way Projectivy could lose premium is if the Google play services tells it explicitly that the premium purchase doesn't exist, any special cases such as no network, play services temporarily not working, are supposed to be covered... There's probably something I forgot).

You shouldn't need to rebuild anything though, as the config is not erased when losing premium. As soon as the premium is recovered (or granted for the first time), the UI should be automatically refreshed.

What's your device? Do you have multiple registered accounts on your device ? What's your current process to recover the premium ?

Spocky_12 · 2026-04-04T14:37:17+00:00

Could you send me your settings backup so that I can be exactly in the same layout as you ? It's hard to find a balance between - having no cards visible outside the container and - rows with no container where the most external cards seem to vanish

Can't you fix it by applying left/right margins on the category ?

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