How to get active tab from component?

actions.currentScene() is great when the scene is not a part of a tab navigator. Is there a good way to tell which tab I am on from anywhere in my app?

My use case is I have an auto sliding carousel on my home screen, but I only want it to autoPlay when the user is on that tab.

I have tried to wrap a TouchableOpacity to each tab icon and dispatch an action on each press to keep track of which tab is active - I thought this would for sure work but when trying to change tabs they no longer receive the `props.focused` prop and do not change tabs on press (but it did keep track of the active tab from the press).

Has anyone come across this and solved it in a clean way, or am I just totally missing something?

Cheers.