Hi! Not a bug report, feel free to close.
I started using LtvLauncher on my new Fire TV and really liked it. The only frustration was Fire OS itself: Amazon no longer allows setting a custom default launcher at all, so pressing Home always drops you back into Amazon's home screen. That annoyed me enough that I went looking for a solution and ended up building one that works on the current Fire OS version, 8.1.6.9 (the post-September-2025 patch that broke the previously known tricks).
The result is Home on Fire (https://github.com/toolicious/home-on-fire) (GPL-3.0-or-later): a small accessibility-service app that redirects the remote's Home button to a launcher of the user's choice and can launch it on boot. I use it with LtvLauncher daily and it works well; LtvLauncher is also linked in my README's related-projects section and is included in the screenshot.
If you think it's useful for your Fire TV users, feel free to mention it. Happy to answer questions either way.
Hi! Not a bug report, feel free to close.
I started using LtvLauncher on my new Fire TV and really liked it. The only frustration was Fire OS itself: Amazon no longer allows setting a custom default launcher at all, so pressing Home always drops you back into Amazon's home screen. That annoyed me enough that I went looking for a solution and ended up building one that works on the current Fire OS version, 8.1.6.9 (the post-September-2025 patch that broke the previously known tricks).
The result is Home on Fire (https://github.com/toolicious/home-on-fire) (GPL-3.0-or-later): a small accessibility-service app that redirects the remote's Home button to a launcher of the user's choice and can launch it on boot. I use it with LtvLauncher daily and it works well; LtvLauncher is also linked in my README's related-projects section and is included in the screenshot.
If you think it's useful for your Fire TV users, feel free to mention it. Happy to answer questions either way.