This is a Chrome extension that uses the HTML5 Gamepad API to provide game controller (and keyboard) navigator and control for Netflix. Chrome 40+ is required. The primary use case is for integration with an HTPC (ie, Kodi with ChromeLauncher).
This has only been tested with XBox 360 controllers so far.
Currently supported features:
- Profile selection
- Movie navigation with customized movie info pane
- Playback control (pause, mute, seek/scrub, volume, next episode)
To do:
- Subtitle, season, and episode selection from within the player interface
- On-screen controller-driven keyboard for searches
- Configuration interface for remapping controls
Install the extension from the Chrome web store. Go to Netflix. Use your controller.
- A selects the current-highlighted item
- B will go back to the previous screen, or exit Netflix if there are no more screens to go back to
- Y will go to the detail page for the currently-selected movie
- The left stick or D-pad navigate movies and menu items
- The left and right shoulder buttons zip forward/back 5 items at a time
- Start pauses/unpauses the movie
- Select mutes/unmutes the movie
- D-Pad up/down change volume
- D-Pad right/left scrubs back/forward (5 sec at a time)
- The right analog stick seeks back/forward (30 sec at a time)
- B returns to movie selection
Guidelines:
- The Coffeescript files are canonical; they should be edited, then compiled rather than editing the JS directly
How To:
- Clone this repository
- Make your changes and publish to your own GitHub copy of the repository
- Issue a pull request. More information with the pull request is more likely to end up with a merge.