Finding game files on an Android TV

[enricoo]

Hello.

I managed to install ScummVM on a Philips Android TV. So far so good.

But when I now try to open a game, I am having trouble navigating to the right folder. Because I did not know any better, I stored the game files under some folder Documents/Games in the TV's internal storage. But using the folder selection screen I do not seem to be able to navigate to that folder. When I enter /Documents for instance, this does not bring me to the Documents folder.

Does anybody have any tip for me on how to resolve this?

[Raziel]

if an android tv is anything similar to android phone devices i would start at the top

"/" and go from there
"/storage/emulated/0/Documents/" could then be the path you are looking for

[Praetorian]

Hello.

I managed to install ScummVM on a Philips Android TV. So far so good.

But when I now try to open a game, I am having trouble navigating to the right folder. Because I did not know any better, I stored the game files under some folder Documents/Games in the TV's internal storage. But using the folder selection screen I do not seem to be able to navigate to that folder. When I enter /Documents for instance, this does not bring me to the Documents folder.

Does anybody have any tip for me on how to resolve this?

Do you know what is the Android version of your TV?

For modern Android OS (about 10 and above) you need to follow a special process to grant ScummVM permission to see the files and subfolders under a selected folder. This is what they refer to as "SAF". We have documented the steps you'd need to follow here:
https://docs.scummvm.org/en/latest/othe ... ding-games

Some devices have restricted user accounts (some TVs or TV sticks do that) which don't allow you to use the native Files app to browse for a folder, so you won't be able to follow the above steps. If that's the case, you'd have to follow one of the alternative methods to put the game folders under the ScummVM's app storage, where you won't need to go through "SAF" to access the files with ScummVM.

Note: I'll be moving this topic to the Android Port subform where this discussion belongs (I'll do that in a few hours).