2016-04-26, 00:19
Since the Amazon Prime Video plugins are broken, and are unlikly to be fixed in short term. I started to search a new comfortable way to get access to prime video.
At home I have a Intel Linux Maschine with KODI and a pulseeight cec receiver. I was annoyed that I couldn't use my tv remote to navigate thrue websites opened with the chrome launcher. So I started to use a 2.4 GHz game controller size keyboard with integrated crappy touchpad. On top of the crappy touchpad, the range of that device is very bad. The keyboard didn't work reliably in distances from 1.5-2meters from the usb receiver :-(.
After searching for a better solution I found the git repository from mantic with his Chrome-Keyboard-Navigation Extension.
This chrome extension maps the arrow keys to the next and previos page buttons. As example for reading comics.
https://github.com/manticorp/Chrome-Keyboard-Navigation.
I modified the plugin from mantic, to let me navigate on the website.
- The arrows keys are now tabnext and tabback buttons.
- The esc key closes the tab or window.
- As addition websites can be "optimized" for better navigation on. As example I remove the header and footer of the amazon webpage, since tabbing thrue every element on these pages would annoy to much.
- The active(selected) element is enlarged, and texts are centred.
The chrome extension is based in javascript and my modified version can be found here:
https://github.com/Flos/Chrome-Keyboard-Navigation
Together with the libcec-daemon, your tv remote can surf the infinit web.
Issues:
The extension pause function does not stop the styling of active/selected elements. They appear enlarged and with centred text.
At home I have a Intel Linux Maschine with KODI and a pulseeight cec receiver. I was annoyed that I couldn't use my tv remote to navigate thrue websites opened with the chrome launcher. So I started to use a 2.4 GHz game controller size keyboard with integrated crappy touchpad. On top of the crappy touchpad, the range of that device is very bad. The keyboard didn't work reliably in distances from 1.5-2meters from the usb receiver :-(.
After searching for a better solution I found the git repository from mantic with his Chrome-Keyboard-Navigation Extension.
This chrome extension maps the arrow keys to the next and previos page buttons. As example for reading comics.
https://github.com/manticorp/Chrome-Keyboard-Navigation.
I modified the plugin from mantic, to let me navigate on the website.
- The arrows keys are now tabnext and tabback buttons.
- The esc key closes the tab or window.
- As addition websites can be "optimized" for better navigation on. As example I remove the header and footer of the amazon webpage, since tabbing thrue every element on these pages would annoy to much.
- The active(selected) element is enlarged, and texts are centred.
The chrome extension is based in javascript and my modified version can be found here:
https://github.com/Flos/Chrome-Keyboard-Navigation
Together with the libcec-daemon, your tv remote can surf the infinit web.
Issues:
The extension pause function does not stop the styling of active/selected elements. They appear enlarged and with centred text.
