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Every remote button IPappTV recognises on Android TV and Google TV - and what it does on each screen

Remotes look different, but the buttons are the same: arrows with OK, Back, digits, channel up/down, play/pause. The app handles exactly that set. Buttons marked 7 - power, mute, volume, Home - are handled by the TV itself; the app does not intercept them.
Remote control with the buttons IPappTV handles marked 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 OK +VOL +PR IPappTV 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 7 7 7

1. Digits 0-9 - channel number

In the player and in the channel list the digits select a channel by number. Up to four digits; after a short pause the app switches. The number always comes from the full list, not the filtered category - "12" is the same channel whichever tab you are in. Numbers are shown before channel names in the list and in the panel.

2. Arrows

ScreenAction
Player (clean picture) previous / next channel · function bar · programme details
Player - archive seek within the recording (jumps after a short pause)
Channel panel cursor through channels · change category
Channel list through channels · change category, also from a channel row
Reorder mode move the selected channel within favourites or a custom group
Channel schedule (EPG) previous / next day
Home screen, SettingsStandard navigation between elements

3. OK - short and long

ScreenShort pressHold
PlayerOpens the channel panel-
Channel panelSwitches to the highlighted channelChannel menu: guide, favourite, lock, archive, group (about 0.6 s)
Channel listStarts the channelChannel menu as above, plus "Move" in favourites and custom groups
Home screenOpens the listList menu: edit, delete
Channel scheduleOn a future programme: reminder (bell). On a past one, with archive: playback-

On TV the channel panel navigates with its own cursor, so OK always applies to the highlighted channel - focus does not "escape" to tabs or buttons.

4. Back

Back always goes one level up and never throws you out of the app with a single press from the player. In the player the order is: programme details → channel panel → function bar → from the archive, first back to live → leave the player for the list. In reorder mode Back ends reordering. On the home screen it exits the app.

5. Play / pause

In the player it pauses and resumes. A remote may have separate Play and Pause buttons or one shared button - the app handles all three variants. After pausing a live stream, resuming continues from where you paused, as long as the provider's stream keeps that much material behind live; if not, playback returns to the present.

6. Channel +/− and Page Up / Page Down

The app treats both pairs the same (on some remotes the channel rocker sends Page Up/Down codes).

ScreenAction
Player (clean picture)CH+ next channel, CH− previous - same as the side arrows
Channel panel, channel list, schedulePage scrolling. Direction follows the cursor: CH+ up the list, CH− down - not the channel number

7. Buttons the app does not intercept

Power, mute, volume, Home, app shortcut buttons (Netflix, YouTube) and the coloured buttons are handled by the TV system. You change volume with the TV remote as usual - the app has no volume slider of its own on TV (on a phone it does, by tapping the left edge of the picture).

8. PIN keypad

For a locked channel the app shows its own keypad: digits, delete, OK. You can navigate it with the arrows and confirm with OK, but typing the code with the remote's digits is faster - they work directly.