[tret]

I'd love to wifey proof this thing which means I need reliable bumpers to keep her in XBMC. Any thoughts or tweaks that anyone has discovered? Any better methods than Llama at the moment?

tret

Use a different remote without a Home button. Edit the XBMC skin to hide the Exit button. Use Autopilot or Llama to boot straight into XBMC. Hide the Programs menu, if you really want no way to launch the FTV Launcher. If XBMC ever crashes, just reboot the FTV.

This was my goal also. I think that I have it working so that it's completely family proof. I use autopilot to boot directly into XBMC. I am using a harmony remote with the Ortek VRC-1100 ir reciever as mentioned a couple posts back. The Ortek remote has a button labeled browser which opens the Amazon home menu on the fire TV, but I just didn't map that to any buttons on the Harmony 650. Also, as elmerohueso said you need to hide the programs menu. I am using the Amber skin, with a simple change to the home menu settings, which gives me access to Netflix and Pandora from the main menu. We have used SageTV for years and this box will be the first time that I can let the family use XBMC. The fact that we can use the FireTV apps like Netflix and Pandora and automatically return to the XBMC menu is absolutely perfect for us. I can't use allcast because it does drop you out of XBMC when it closes.

If I need to access any of the Amzon settings or programs on the FireTV I have to pull out the original FireTV remote.

This sounds like the solution I'm looking for, thanks guys!

tret