Settings map
How the Settings panel is organized, what each tile opens and where to find every App Settings panel.
Select the gear at the top right of the screen. The Settings panel slides in from the right.
What the gear opens#
| Tile or area | What it does |
|---|---|
| App Settings | Opens Hegemon's own settings: the 14 panels listed below |
| System Settings | Opens Android's own system settings (Wi-Fi, display, accounts and so on). It does not open Hegemon's settings |
| Current Time | Shows a live clock. Select it to open Time display settings |
| Meteo | Shows the weather. Select it to open the weather panel |
| Inputs | On TVs only: a row under the clock and the weather that switches the TV to an external input. See TV inputs |
| Notifications | The list of notifications below the tiles. See Notifications |
A red dot on the gear means there is a new notification.
TV inputs#
On a television, a row of tiles under the clock and the weather lets you switch the TV to one of its external inputs: HDMI, component, SCART, VGA and so on. It does the same as the INPUT button on the remote. Hegemon does not change any system setting.
- The row appears only on TVs. Boxes and sticks such as Chromecast, Shield or Mi Box have no inputs, so they do not show it.
- With one or two inputs, each has its own tile. With more, the row has two tiles: the input you used last from Hegemon (the first one until you have used any) and Inputs, which opens the full list.
- In the list, the inputs with a signal or a connected device come first and say Connected; HDMI comes before the others. The icon of a connected input is green.
- A tile is named after the label set on the TV, plus the name of the connected HDMI device when the TV knows it, for example HDMI 2 · PlayStation.
- If the TV refuses the change, a message says Couldn't switch to this input.
App Settings, panel by panel#
Hegemon's settings have a menu on the left and the options on the right. Move down the menu and the right side changes. The panels appear in this order:
| # | Panel | What it controls | Page |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Appearance | Focus border and interface size | Appearance |
| 2 | Spotlight | What the big card at the top of Home shows | Spotlight |
| 3 | Rows | The rows on the Home screen | Rows |
| 4 | List Manager | Your own lists and your saved Discover lists | List Manager |
| 5 | Accounts | Trakt, Simkl, WeTrakr, OMDb and Fanart.tv, plus two reset tools | Accounts |
| 6 | Streaming Providers | Which streaming apps you use and your default one | Streaming Providers |
| 7 | Internal Player | Add-ons, smart autoplay and Up Next | Internal Player |
| 8 | Devices & sync | Linking your own devices | Devices and sync |
| 9 | Friends | Your Echo friends | Friends |
| 10 | Rooms | Your Echo rooms | Rooms |
| 11 | Media servers | Jellyfin, Plex and Emby | Media servers |
| 12 | Screensaver | The photo screensaver | Screensaver |
| 13 | System Integration | Default launcher, Watch Next, notification access | System Integration |
| 14 | About | Version and the privacy statement | About |
Subscription
Streaming Providers needs an active subscription. Without one, that panel shows a subscribe prompt instead of the options.
Moving around#
- Use Up and Down in the left menu, then Right to enter the options.
- Left returns to the menu. Back leaves Settings.
- A switch changes as soon as you press OK. There is no Save button, except in a few dialogs that say so.