- New: The Remote has an Apps key that shows the streaming apps installed on the TV. #373, #384
- New: More home screens to choose from, on Fire TV too. #367, #381
- New: Apps has a row that opens the TV's app store: Play Store, or Appstore on Fire TV. #385
- New: Remote quick actions support more streaming apps, including regional, music and self-hosted ones. #384
- Improved: On Fire TV, the Android card shows the Fire OS version, and Check for updates opens About or Fire TV Settings with directions to the update screen. #365
- Improved: The Remote now has its own round button, in a notch in the middle of the bottom bar, on every tab. #368, #388
- Improved: "Get a better home screen" moved from Apps to the Overview page. #368
- Improved: One tap on the Remote's volume keys moves the volume in a single jump, without the lag of several key presses. #372
- Improved: The home screen suggestion now appears after the TV is debloated, not on first connect. #374
- Improved: Tweaks › Home screen always offers Change home screen, and the picker opens on your current launcher. #386
- Improved: Each app on Apps shows Open and Stop by state, and one remove button. #403
- Fixed: On Fire TV, Tweaks › Home screen no longer offers Firehomestarter as a launcher. #409, #411
- Fixed: Screenshots and files saved from the TV no longer fail when you rename them in the save picker. #369
- Fixed: A dropped connection no longer logs you out of a TV. #402
- Fixed: A TV added by IP:port is found again after its port changes. #402
- Fixed: Pairing gives up after 30 seconds instead of hanging. #402
- Fixed: Tweaks › Private DNS: a provider that doesn't work is undone. #400
- Fixed: History keeps a Home switch or reset even if the TV drops mid-way. #399
- Fixed: An unsigned list never replaces Tellyscope's signed one. #392
Commits since v0.15.1
- FireOsTest: Fire TV Home answers Home in the starter test (039184b)
- Fix Google Play link in README (5f135c6)
- CHANGELOG: 0.16.0 for alpha.5 (f68d12b)
- Home screen card in Tweaks lists Firehomestarter again (9ac230b)
- Fire TV: Firehomestarter is not a launcher (a9253f4)
- Home screen card: a second built-in launcher does not hide it (e389fb1)
- README: arrows between the Play steps (381b35e)
- README: the three Play steps on one line (b51c653)
- README: Play paragraph, gallery re-rendered on 0.16 (722d57d)
- data/index.json: sign version 2026110607 (8ccb294)
- CHANGELOG: drop the #373 Open on TV line; link the signed-list line to #392 (b4f9976)
- CHANGELOG: drop the #371 line from 0.16.0; Get a better home screen is on Overview (2b64038)
- CHANGELOG: reword the #403 and #400 lines (9b6592e)
- 0.16.0-alpha.4 [release] (e2c2cd0)
- Let a protected app that opens unfold its row (253c10e)
- Keep Open on a protected app that opens (2e7eed3)
- Monet's icon from data/images/ too (2d61657)
- Give every app row one Open/Stop slot and one remove button (8fc520b)
- Keep reconnecting through a dropped handshake; follow an IP:port TV's port; time out pairing (1cee82d)
- Check a Private DNS provider by its validation, not a cached lookup (9ed86ec)
- Record History before the TV changes (0cacd24)
- Count every listed app that is off for the home screen card (93f1ea1)
- Show the home screen card after a partial debloat (160eaa0)
- Remote buttons picker: same 96 dp pill as Open an app (497a23d)
- Open an app: show each app on its brand pill (5a1cfa0)
- Launcher picker: drop the Refresh icon from Try again, as on the sheet (15a1028)
- Launcher picker: shimmer while pictures load, Try again when one fails (48e9662)
- Launcher icons from data/images/, not their developers' sites (4d6b108)
- Test that Amazon's default leaves the Remote's Home as the key (1e909e9)
- Fire OS: the Remote's Home opens the launcher the user set (e363fa2)
- Read data/'s check and its lists from one index (b633066)
- Gray out Volume and Mute on Fire OS again (4a10e00)
- 0.16.0-alpha.3 [release] (37a4323)
- data/index.json: sign version 2026110605 (7b3eb9d)
- Change home screen: always on Tweaks, picker opens on the current launcher (bd54203)
- Remote: round button in a notch cut into the tab bar (27addb9)
- streaming.json: region groups and more US and India services (2672318)
- Remote: the Apps key lists streaming apps only; a Music group (752ebe5)
- Remote button: solid grey while reconnecting (127cc48)
- Apps: a store row that opens the TV's app store (e9ab398)
- data: offer AT4K in the Fire TV launcher picker (b24badf)
- Launcher picker: label service launchers while data/ is unverified (40aeab6)
- README: the Play build downloads no launchers from GitHub (e9fd25d)
- README: Google Play gets its own block under the badge row (4839ba3)
- README: Play test steps under the badge row (b3f24e3)
- README: Google Play testing badge and install steps (67cd453)
- data/index.json: sign version 2026110602 (7f9bae4)
- 0.16.0-alpha.2 [release] (97bd3ec)
- Revert "Launcher picker: 32 dp icon": the size waits for a mockup (6d5f1fe)
- Launcher picker: 32 dp icon with a 12 dp gap, so the name and about line get 12 dp more (2faa88c)
- Launcher screenshots: a home screen in use, not a fresh install (56f87c8)
- data.py check: a launchers.json that is not an object has no screenshots (4891e95)
- Launcher screenshots: hashes in launchers.json, not the index (c171048)
- Fire OS Home undo: fail if the other launcher's service won't come back (49e89aa)
- Fire OS Home: one launcher's service at a time (a7104ab)
- Launcher screenshots: real home screens in data/images/.png (00ba2d9)
- Launcher images: Projectivy and AT4K from their own websites; credit at 10 sp Light (15b343d)
- Launcher images: FLauncher's icon and home screen from its GitLab page (c90aa7c)
- Launcher images: fetch only while data/ passes its signature check (8f0c09a)
- Launcher images: link them from the developer's own page, not data/images/ (bf3d223)
- data.py check: fail on an image name the app would drop (ffd03fc)
- Launcher picker: AT4K and Monet, an icon per row, the chosen one opens to its home screen (c227c8b)
- Open any app from Apps and the Remote (76bf599)
- Type non-Latin text on the TV by pasting it through the key helper (7cc7a3f)
- Home suggestion card: wait for the list and a finished debloat (51465f6)
- Send one key where a set can't move the volume; Volume on for Fire OS (59ee7e9)
- Move the volume in one jump per tap instead of a burst of key presses (319c930)
- CHANGELOG: add #369 to 0.16.0 (f440fd9)
- 0.16.0-alpha.1 [release] (f96c7b4)
- Screenshot and save from the TV: check the link after the save picker (dc9f215)
- Shorter Spanish Remote label, so it fits a five-slot bar (a553471)
- Keep SuggestedCard's KDoc on SuggestedCard (eca1436)
- Remote in the middle of the bottom bar, home screen card on the TV page (7a2e6f8)
- Fire TV: show the Fire OS version, open About or Settings for updates (027c0d4)