Remote and D-pad key reference

Why there are three maps and not one

The same physical button has to mean different things depending on which screen holds focus. OK in the player opens the info panel; in the TV guide it opens the channel you are sitting on. Left in the player opens the channels overlay; in the TV guide it shows the groups panel. So the app keeps three separate maps, each remappable on its own, and this section documents them one page each: the player, the TV guide, and movies and shows.

The player and the movies and shows maps hold the same 29 remappable keys, long presses included, and keep the same default wherever a key has a sensible on‑demand twin. The movies and shows table runs longer, because it also lists the volume and mute buttons: those are hardware keys, they are not remappable, and they appear there so the table matches what is printed on a remote. The TV guide map has 20 and no Up or Down at all, because those two move the selection between channels there and are not offered for remapping.

Where the remapping lives

All three sit under Settings › Remote control, in the blocks Player, TV guide and Movies and shows. Each key is listed with the action currently mapped to it; select the key, then pick the new action from the list. Every block carries its own Restore to defaults, so an experiment in one screen can be undone without disturbing the other two.

The tables on these pages are the shipped defaults, taken from the app's own key definitions rather than transcribed from a screenshot. If a default changes in a later build, the page changes with it.

Your remote will not send every key

Each table lists every key the app can bind, which is not the same as every key your remote has. The short remotes that ship with most Google TV devices send nothing at all for Pg+, Pg-, Rewind, Fast forward or the coloured buttons, so those rows stay inert on that hardware however you map them. A full set‑top‑box remote usually sends all of them.

On a small remote the useful move is to put what you reach for most on the long presses of the four arrows and OK. Every remote can send those, and long press is where the app puts its own less common actions for the same reason.