Android TV / Android TV box remotes need more buttons!

by The12MonkeysWitness

These new slick remotes have reduced functionality a lot at the cost of minimalism. My mi box s remote and most other Android TV remotes as well lack so many buttons.

No mute. No separate play/pause, as some apps require you to press the centre button twice.

They should also provide rewind and fast forward buttons. Prime, Netflix, YouTube etc all have different rewind/fast forward interfaces. It is such a pain to remember all of them.

And I know that Netflix and prime video have deals with box manufacturers to have shortcuts buttons on the remotes, but having those classic red-green-blue-yellow buttons as programmable shortcuts would be cool.

pawdog

I suppose it's already headed that way. The Nvidia Shield remote has already added FF/RW. Tivo Stream 4K also has more buttons.

ryadre1

Yea I use my tv remote via cec with my shield, So i can control volume of receiver, power off everything with one click, use the colored buttons in certain apps to do things

lordcracker

Search for the G20 remote. Have them on my 2 shields. Life changer.

Physicallykrisp

Because of years not having them on OG shield I never actually use the play/ff buttons on my 2019 in fact this post reminded me that there there lol