Hello!

I can happily say that I am really enjoying SPMC on my NVIDIA Shield. For the most part, it runs exactly how I want it to, and I really appreciate the work put into this.

There are just a couple of things, that I cannot seem to handle. Probably cause of my lack of skills - so I hope you can guide me on this. I have not rooted my NVIDIA Shield, basically I cannot even exactly comprehend yet what it means to do it, and how to. It seemed a bit hard, since I only have a Mac, and the guides are for Windows mostly. In general I just do not feel very "in control" of the files on my NVIDIA Shield, as most of my issues are probably just files I need to be able to edit/handle.

1 - My Logitech Harmony Elite is not playing too nicely with my NVIDIA Shield / SPMC yet. Basically, I have just set it up as a NVIDIA Shield Gaming Console, and running the standard setup for buttons. There is an annoying delay on button presses, and I feel like I am missing a lot out on a lot of button mapping configuration. I already tried to edit my keyboard.xml as per: https://github.com/koying/SPMC/wiki/Advanced-Keymap-for-NVIDIA-Shield-TV-and-Logitech-Harmony-Hub-Remote-Control , but I do not believe I succeeded. What I did is I copied the content into an XML file and changed the list as per this thread: #189 because I want my video to keep playing in the background when I press the back/exit button. Afterwards I put it on my Synology NAS, that I have mapped to my NVIDIA Shield and used the file manager to copy it to my special://profile/keymaps. It seems like the file eventually dissapeared and created a keyboard.xml.bak.0 file in place of it. Also I searched for solutions to the delay problem, and found that it is probably since I am running over IR right now, and need to set it up for bluetooth. I found so many different directions to go for this, so I completely lost track, and need guidance. Also my NVIDIA Shield does not turn off properly when using the "Off" button, as it seems. Sometimes I believe it has been continuing to play stuff while everything else is turned off.

Can you guys refer to me to a good guide to use for properly setting up my Harmony Elite? I really want to have it respond nice and quick(over bluetooth), and make full use of binds/bottons.

2 - In my skin, Arctic Zephyr: From Ashes, there is an annoying equalizer bar in the top right corner that I want to remove. As per the emby forums I need to open Includes_Furniture.xml and comment some lines.

Can you help me how to gain access to and edit this Includes_Furniture.xml file?

3 - I want SPMC to autostart when my Shield boots up. I did find this in the wiki: https://github.com/koying/SPMC/wiki/How-to-autostart-SPMC-on-boot But I believe I need my Shield to be rooted(again I do not exactly know the whole story of rooting) to this, and I currently have no external storage in Shield.

Can you help me with a more in depth guide how to achieve this? If I need to buy a SD card to get this solved - tell me and I will go ahead and grab one right away.

4 - Basically I just need more control with my Shield/SPMC from my Mac. How would you guys suggest that I go by accessing the "system files" of my Shield and SPMC from my Mac?