Remote and keyboard keys

On a television nearly everything hangs off two keys. If you are hunting for an action, hold OK first.

Everywhere in the app

Key	What it does
Arrows	Move
OK	Open or play what is focused
Hold OK, or INFO	Options for what is focused, favourite, group, rename, versions, record, remind
Back	One level up. From the first column it goes to the nav rail; from there it offers to leave
Left from the first column	The nav rail

The bar at the bottom of the screen always spells out what OK and Back will do on the thing under the cursor. It changes with the context, and it is the fastest way to learn the app.

Back from the nav rail asks before it closes the app, so a stray press does not drop you onto the launcher.

In the player

Key	What it does
OK	Show the controls
Up / Down	Previous and next channel (live)
Left / Right	Seek (anything with a length)
Hold Left / Right	Switch to another version of this channel
Digits	Type a channel number and it jumps there
Play / Pause	Exactly that
Channel + / −	Next and previous channel
Back	Close the player

Play/Pause on Android TV

Android does not hand PLAY_PAUSE to apps cleanly, the system media session also reacts to it, so one press used to toggle twice. On a television IPTV Deck now takes that key for itself, and voice commands, next/previous and stop are untouched. On a phone nothing changed.

Colour keys

Only Android TV and Fire TV remotes have them, and only there does the app use one:

• Yellow, switch between the last two live channels you watched. Films never enter that history.

Chromecast with Google TV, Fire TV Sticks and NVIDIA Shield remotes mostly have no colour keys at all; the same action is in the player’s options panel.

On Windows and macOS

The television layout, driven by a pointer:

• Click anywhere OK would act.
• Move the mouse over the player to reveal the controls.
• Drag a list sideways to scroll it; a drag that actually scrolled does not also click.
• Arrow keys and Enter work exactly like a remote, if you prefer.

On a tablet in the television layout

A tablet running the television layout hides the phone’s navigation bar, so it gets a visible back button in the corner of every pushed screen, plus a back swipe from the left edge on iPad. Tapping a tile never moves the focus ring the way a remote does. That is deliberate, because a finger has no focus.