Click 'n Hold issue with Nvidia Shield (Android TV)

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I had an issue with my Nvidia Shield Pro, an Android TV device. When I hold the remote to the right or left, up or down, it doesn’t move fast.

It’s hard to explain, but in operating systems like Windows, Mac, and Linux, if you hold an arrow key for a time, it starts to move really fast.

On my Harmony remote with the Shield, this happens. If I press right, it moves right once. If I hold it down, it moves a few times then REALLY fast.

For some reason, this doesn’t occur when using the Unfolded Circle Remote 3. Anyone know why that might be and how I can fix it?

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Did you map long press for the direction button? If yes remove the long press options.

Ralf

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This is a known issue with the Android TV integration and won’t be fixed until they implement a remote entity in addition the current media player entity.

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What are you talking about? Auto repeat of direction button works without problems.

Ralf

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Not according to Markus.

“There is no native long-press functionality at the moment.
This is being worked on at the moment.”

You cannot hold left or right in YouTube for example and have queuing speed up as you hold the button like you can with the original remote.

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Correct. I didn’t map the “Hold” action, and it’s going through items one-by-one rather than moving through at high speed.

Is there a way I can check the status of this fix or help out somehow? This is one of those dealbreaker features.

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There is a branch for this feature in the core api repo on GitHub (GitHub - unfoldedcircle/core-api: API specifications for Remote Two/3 by Unfolded Circle · GitHub). If this branch gets merged it will be available in the next update. But this also needs the integration to use the new logic.
Keep in mind that repeating a command already works by not mapping anything to the same button for long press. But this has a hard coded inter-command delay that might be a bit to long for some devices to have the same speed as with the original remote.

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The link is just to the GitHub repo, not the branch. Which one should I look at?

Correct, the repeat delay is too long, so I don’t get fast-scrolling like the Harmony and offical Shield remote.

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Sorry, I’m a little confused. Is the long press “faster method” possible or something by making changes to the core API?? Or are we still just waiting for this to be implemented eventually into the Android TV integration?

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It has not even been implemented into the API yet

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Cool. That’s great. Thanks for confirming though