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How to Control Your Stremio App with a Joystick/ Game Controller

Posted on April 9, 2019April 12, 2019 by Stremio

We are happy to announce that the Stremio app can now be controlled with a game controller. You can no use your joystick as a remote control, here’s how to do it.

This is what you can do with the game controller keys:

Left bumper (left shoulder button): Move tabs to the left; e.g. switch from the Discover to the Board tab.

Left analog button (left stick): Use if for navigation, or to seek, or to control the volume.

Right bumper (right shoulder button): Move tabs to the right; e.g. switch from the Board to the tab.

Y key: Activate/deactivate full-screen mode.

B key: Go back

A key: Select, or press Play/Pause.

Once you connect your game controller, your Stremio app will show you a notification that it has detected it and you can start using it.

Happy streaming!

8 thoughts on “How to Control Your Stremio App with a Joystick/ Game Controller”

  1. Bram Laridon says:
    April 13, 2019 at 10:38 am

    hi
    I have found that the controls are a bit anoying to use in stremio and would like to propose a new feature, an option to change the controlls in the settings menu.
    That would make things a lot easyer.

    thx
    Bram L.

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  2. LD says:
    April 15, 2019 at 2:12 am

    I cant use Xpadder with Stremio because has a conflict… For sure you need put an disable option to gamepad

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  3. jero says:
    April 21, 2019 at 9:41 am

    please add an option to disable this feature

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  4. Nuno Alves says:
    April 22, 2019 at 8:35 pm

    Hey pls add a setting that allows stremio to turn off the controller recognition, because i like having my controller plugged all the time (for cable management porpuses) and now everytime i load stremio i have to unplug it because its messing arround.

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  5. DrXxX says:
    April 23, 2019 at 11:15 pm

    Is there any way to disable it?

    it gets preety annoying when you are using controller companion and cant disable gamepad integration

    Reply
  6. Eddy says:
    April 29, 2019 at 7:14 am

    It worked earlier but then zzzz it just stopped working entirely..

    Reply
  7. rodrigo says:
    May 3, 2019 at 10:07 pm

    This broke my setup completely .
    I used controller companion as to control the mouse pointer with a xbox controller. The inputs are duplicated.

    Also, even disabling the 3rd party software, can’t use the gamepad to change sound and subtitles settings.

    Reply
  8. Oliver Bujdoso says:
    May 4, 2019 at 2:17 pm

    Please add a disable option It’s unusable if you’re using another software.

    Reply

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