Android WiiM home app landscape mode support for tablets

[madbrain]

My brand new Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra sits in landscape mode 100% of the time, in its official keyboard case. I cannot rotate the tablet without losing the case protection, as well as keyboard input, which I want to use for complex searches - I hate touch screen virtual keyboards.
Please fix the Android WiiM app to work in landscape mode, also.

 

[GioF_71]

And today I tried also on a very old amazon fire with google play store installed, and it works correctly in landscape mode.

However, on both the huawei tablet and this one, even if I assigned the permission to prevent the tablet from sleeping, and even if both devices were powered, I found no way to keep the display active while in the now playing screen.
This unfortunately prevents me to use any of these tablets as displays.

 

[Wiimer]

And today I tried also on a very old amazon fire with google play store installed, and it works correctly in landscape mode.

However, on both the huawei tablet and this one, even if I assigned the permission to prevent the tablet from sleeping, and even if both devices were powered, I found no way to keep the display active while in the now playing screen.
This unfortunately prevents me to use any of these tablets as displays.

I don't know if this will help you, but I have my Xiaomi pad6 screen split in two, showing the clock app and the WiiM app. If I set the "never sleep" setting in the clock app, the screen stays on all the time.



However, on the Huawei mediapad M5, only one of the screens can be active, so touching the WiiM app stops the clock, and touching the clock stops the currently playing screen of the WiiM app.

 

[GioF_71]

Thank you @Wiimer.
I found that on the amazon fire table I can set it to sleep after 30 minutes, so that's quite not bad considering that this device has an almost dead battery. But I'd like to avoid to apply the same changes on the new Xiaomi.
BubbleUPnP can force the tablet to not go to sleep when it is on the Now Playing screen (provided permission to be granted to the app), so I would expect the WiiM app to behave similarly.
Would it be possible in an upcoming release?

 

[Wiimer]

Would it be possible in an upcoming release?

Please submit a support ticket through the feedback section of the WiiM app and request the feature.

 

[GioF_71]

Ticket submitted.

 

[Wiimer]

Ticket submitted.

Perhaps it might be possible to start BubbleUPnP as a floating app and just leave it in the corner of the screen to display it all the time.

At least, this method seems to work for my clock app.

 

[GioF_71]

Hello, yes, sure, but this would only be a workaround. Not super-intuitive for the general user. But thank you anyway!

 

[GioF_71]

Perhaps it might be possible to start BubbleUPnP as a floating app and just leave it in the corner of the screen to display it all the time.
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At least, this method seems to work for my clock app.

Are you from the WiiM company?

 

[Wiimer]

Are you from the WiiM company?

There is no company called WiiM, but I am just a Wiimer (wiim user).
Not an employee.

 

[Brantome]

Are you from the WiiM company?

The only official WiiM representatives on the forum are WiiM Support and WiiM Team.

 

[GioF_71]

The only official WiiM representatives on the forum are WiiM Support and WiiM Team.

Ok thank you!

 

[Outspacer]

I see the release notes say landscape mode should be implemented now and even some tweaks done to it, but it's not working for me on either of my devices (Pixel 6 and Lenovo Tab M8 TB-8505FS, which are both up to date with the latest 3.0.3.241126 app)

Strange because the initial implementation did at least rotate for me (although the layout was poor), then the next update removed it.

Is it working for most of you?

Is there something I need to do to enable it? Or are my devices just not compatible (both can rotate other apps just fine)?

If there's nothing easy then I guess I'll try clearing app cache then reinstalling app before raising a ticket.

Thanks in advance for any ideas!

 

[GioF_71]

Hello, it is working for me!

 

[Outspacer]

Thanks GioF_71!

BTW I tried clearing app data, then uninstalling and reinstalling. Still no joy

 

[RezNam]

@Outspacer: Please check whether the display size is at its lowest value. 'Settings' ->'Display'->'Font Size and Display Size'

 

[Outspacer]

@Outspacer: Please check whether the display size is at its lowest value. 'Settings' ->'Display'->'Font Size and Display Size'

Ah-ha! That's it, thank-you so much! What I had was font size 'largest' and display size 'default' (second from lowest). Tried both at 'small' (lowest) and it worked. I won't even ask why!

Thankfully it still works even with font size set back to 'largest' and I can still read text