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jradwan
User-specified order for Apps menu
The order of the Apps menu always seems to be changing, which causes issues with navigation since I have the macros "hard coded" based on their location (see issue #25).
Just logging this as a possible enhancement to allow for user-specified order of the Apps menu, per TiVo box, in config.json.
Started a branch for this (issue-041-apps-order), but might hold off for now. Looking at the Hydra video, the navigation structure for apps is changing from an up/down list to a up/down/left/right matrix:
At least now that there is a single Apps menu (as of 20.7.2, see issue #42), maintaining the hard-coded order of the apps isn't that big of a deal. And for Hydra, there's not a lot of detail, but it looks like there won't be concept of "checking" the apps you want to appear (but there are Favorites, which I assume is the replacement for that). As long as that All menu always shows all the apps, I won't have to worry about if an app is enabled or not, which also reduces the complexity of figuring out where an app is in the menu,
Now that I have Hydra on one of my TiVos, I've started looking at this for real. The "Favorite Apps" strip only appears if the user has actually marked favorites, so I'll need to account for that when building the navigation macro (new setting in config.json?).
cenright on TCF discovered that there's a discrete NETFLIX telnet code that can be used to launch the Netflix app. It'd be really nice if there was one for each app, as that would eliminate the need to create the navigation command macros ...