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You'll need to turn debugging on for your log to be useful.
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Ok, well, I'll do that. It just doesn't happen frequently enough, and is not terribly reproducible at the moment, and I don't always catch it in time after-the-fact. If it happens again, and I catch it, I'll be sure to upload a new log. Thanks!
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Someone in your house is playing with the remote.
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Yeah, I got there with occam's razer as well. But it's a small household (2), and was happening mostly around bedtime. Seemed more likely that the button was getting pressed unintentionally when being put away for the night. But then it happened while I was home alone, and I left for a walk. And I know I didn't do anything. Or at least I don't think I did. I've disabled the web server, too. Still just waiting for recurrence. Anyway, I was just hoping there would be something useful in the logs. Thanks!
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Perhaps your neighbour synced a remote?
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As I said - I'm just awaiting recurrance now that I have debug turned on.
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Another thing - do you have a game controller plugged in? They can be a bit autonomous sometimes, particularly if a paddle or joystick is leaning against something.
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I do not. I have only one remote that is paired to the FireTV.
At this point, I'm heavily leaning towards accidental pressing of the physical play button when putting the remote away as the cause. The timing of the events (based on my trakt.tv sync history) appears to match with times the remote would have been moved. Please assume this is not a kodi issue. I only posted here because I hoped the logfile would be useful, and understand it is not. If it recurs, I will update.
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Ok... more weirdness to add.
It is 100% linked to when I power off my TV. I can now reproduce the issue, and can reproduce it with the standard remote I received with the TV (basic model dumb Element TV), as well as with my sideclick remote. When I power the TV off, the selected series or episode begins to play. When I power it back on, there is no change (that I can see). It's important to note that the FireTV is set to sleep after 15 minutes idling, and is not being powered off.
It gets even more confusing, though. The issue is only reproducible for about 5 seconds after selecting a series. So if I select a series and then power off my TV within that 5 second window (complete guess on the exact timing), then the series begins to play. If I simply wait 5 seconds and then power off the tv, it doesn't happen.
I really don't understand this, as these two things are not interconnected in any way I know of...
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Try turning off CEC and see if it still does it.
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I already turned off CEC within the FireTV settings, and it's still occurring. I also just rebooted, confirmed the CEC setting was still disabled, and then confirmed I can still reproduce the issue. I don't know of anywhere else CEC could be enabled, and I don't believe my TV is even CEC capable...
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I did a bit more testing. Now that I discovered that turning off the power to my TV sends the equivalent of the FireTV Play button, I've discovered that the issue is exclusive to Kodi. I tested powering off the TV while in specific portions of the Amazon and Netflix apps where pressing the Play button would result in a movie playing. Powering off the TV did not play anything. I can still reproduce this in Kodi on demand.
Does anybody have any guesses? Should I post a copy of my keymap?
