What should the media buttons mapping be on remotes?

BlackCloakGS

On the firetv remote there is a fast forward, play/pause and rewind button. Currently they are unmapped. Here are the current thoughts on what to map them to.

Armelline

Looking forward to seeing these added! Hopefully before the end of the competition

AJaymz

Play/Pause would be nice to have it the Start button. I like using Start to pause the game. FF - X, RW - Y

jonmulcahy

@AJaymz said:
Play/Pause would be nice to have it the Start button. I like using Start to pause the game. FF - X, RW - Y

but the menu button (the three lines) already maps to the start button, which i think is standard procedure.

AJaymz

Oh ok, just seen the Play/pause in the poll and didn't think about another button going to Start.

BBEnk

@BlackCloakGS The actual Fire remote and controller has these buttons so how would that work on those generic controllers that don't?

Armelline

@BBEnk said:
BlackCloakGS The actual Fire remote and controller has these buttons so how would that work on those generic controllers that don't?

Unless I'm misunderstanding, there are generic button mappings in the attribute list. These apply to most controllers. The Fire TV remote isn't a standard controller, though, so the GS team just map the buttons on it to ones that seem to make sense - left/right/up/down/centre click. There are the three additional buttons, though - rewind, fast forward, play/pause. These need to be mapped to something.

My thinking when suggesting the triggers and stick click was that it's possible your game has full controller support. If so, having a Fire TV remote map to the same buttons might cause conflicts. If the remote buttons map to controller buttons that are unlikely to be used, that conflict can hopefully be avoided. If you want to use A/B/X in your game for the same buttons as rewind/ff/play on the remote you can - you just assign the same keypress to each.

This seemed a logical way to go about it, unless I've completely missed something.

BlackCloakGS

Yes you are correct @Armelline

BlackCloakGS

And Left stick click , Fast Forward: Right shoulder , Rewind: Left shoulder is the winner.

AJaymz

awesome, any idea when we will have access to coding for the remote?

BlackCloakGS

soon maybe this week

BlackCloakGS

Just sent the build to QA