# Unable to access episodes without touch
**URL:** https://forum.antennapod.org/t/unable-to-access-episodes-without-touch/9240
**Category:** Feature request
**Created:** [September 27, 2026, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/unable-to-access-episodes-without-touch/9240 "2026-09-27T12:27:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@guybrush](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/guybrush)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2026, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/unable-to-access-episodes-without-touch/9240/1 "2026-09-27T12:27:45Z")
**App version** : 3.12.2 (from F-Droid)
**Problem you may be having, or feature you want** :
I’m using one of those TV (HDMI) sticks, running a heavily customized version of Android 6.x. I managed to find a bunch of podcasts that I love. However, I can’t access the list of episodes, since there’s no way for me to scroll or touch the screen (it’s a regular monitor).
**Suggested solution** :
I’d love to see a toggle saying “No touchscreen” or something in that vein, allowing the GUI to be traversed with a “TV” remote (arrow buttons) instead.
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### Author:  [@gomezz](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/gomezz)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2026, 6:26pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/unable-to-access-episodes-without-touch/9240/2 "2026-09-27T18:26:24Z")
TBH sounds like a very rare use case as I am thinking that most people will cast or use Bluetooth to play podcasts from their mobile or tablet on their TV.
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### Author:  [@guybrush](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/guybrush)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2026, 12:57pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/unable-to-access-episodes-without-touch/9240/3 "2026-09-28T12:57:52Z")
Thanks for your answer.
You’re probably right about this being an edge case. I’m not suggesting to fix this if I’m the only one to benefit 🙂. Then again, since Android is pretty wide spread these days, I can imagine more edge cases like this popping up. We’ll see.
Besides, I’ve got no idea how hard this issue would be to tackle. I presume the GUI is based on some framework that currently might or might not support non touch requirements, but (even as a Java developer) I’m a bit out of my debt here.
Cheers!
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### Author:  [@ByteHamster](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/ByteHamster)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2026, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/unable-to-access-episodes-without-touch/9240/4 "2026-09-28T21:57:55Z")
I assume you only have arrow keys and no others, right? At some point it would be super nice to have a dedicated TV app, but that will probably take a long time. My next project when the playback service rewrite is finally stable will probably be a WearOS app