"Guide" button integration for C4 Roku driver | Voters

"Guide" button integration for C4 Roku driver

Brian Thomas

The remote control that comes with the latest generation of the Roku Ultra has a "guide" button. Would someone mind looking into updating the driver to include a command for the "guide" button that could be used in programming?

6 days ago

Taylor Meiklejohn

Ok -- did some quick tests in YTTV, Plex, Peacock, ESPN, Netflix. The only one that responded in someway with the Guide command being sent was YTTV bringing up program info during playback.

I could still add it, but from usage, likely isn't much at this point.

Taylor Meiklejohn

This is an easy add in the sense it can be mapped from remote in to the driver. However, there would need to be support for specific apps of what that button maps to to be most useful. If Roku is mapping that behind the scenes to something in each app then that is the behavior that can be mapped.

I was the driver developer who incorporated the previous channel functionality for Roku and YouTube TV into the driver for C4 and it wasn't too bad. Just don't have the ability to easily test this one. I may poke around and see what it does here if just passing the command onto the Roku via IP Control. If it behave like I think it does, I'll get a PR open on the driver for the folks who can bless and release it.