Is there an android widget anymore?

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kwangomango

• February 04, 2022 11:08

I'd like to be able to quickly toggle between Roon and HDMI Arc as the input to my Node without opening the app - just like Hue has widgets to quickly enable/disable bulbs without opening the app. Is this not possible?

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  Tony W.

  Product Support Manager

  • February 04, 2022 19:29

  There currently is no Android Widget - but in the case you mention, if in the BluOS App, under Settings, Player Customise Sources, you have Auto-Sense enabled under HDMI, you are using CEC and the TV will take over the POWERNODE. Roon is an endpoint solution so will also control the POWERNODE without having to access the BluOS App.
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  kwangomango

  • February 04, 2022 21:47

  Thanks Tony.

  Even with Autosense enabled it doesn't help with a common use case:

  I'm watching TV , then listen to some Roon, and then want to watch TV again. I would like a single button press on my phone home screen to activate the HDMI arc input rather than the 6 or so button presses required to change it in the BluOS app.

  Are there any plans to bring back the widget, or at least add app shortcuts to the Node inputs we can add to the home screen?

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  Tony W.

  Product Support Manager

  • February 07, 2022 14:17

  Create a preset; https://support.bluos.net/hc/en-us/articles/360012637674

  You can then program that preset using your TV Remote; https://support1.bluesound.com/hc/en-us/articles/206809498

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  kwangomango

  • August 17, 2022 08:25

  Thanks Tony but that doesn't help when I'm using the phone.

  Could we not have the widget bar back or just a way of adding preset shortcuts to the home screen? Usability really suffers having to jump into the app every time.

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  Lenny

  • March 12, 2025 20:37

  Hey I would also like to have a widget to toggle the input, and no the auto detect features are not enough for me. For example always before I turn my TV off I switch the input from ARC to optical to avoid a weird click sound coming through. Because I do that (I suspect) often times when I turn my TV on again the auto sense does not auto select ARC and I have to go into the app to change it manually.

  Maybe as an alternative you can expose an activity for every input, that one can trigger with a shortcut in a custom launcher like Nova or an automation tool like Automate.

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