Amazon Fire TV

FLIRC USB dongle works for my friend.

Another options is investing in the Harmony Hub range as they utilise Bluetooth to control the AFTV.
 
peterwalkley said:
Taken the plunge with this to use mainly as a kodi box instead of wheeling out the old laptop. Reading around there seem to be some alternative kodi settings to try out to fix occasional stutter on 1080p playback. Have people here had to do this? It seemed all a bit random whether you needed to and which one works best.

Media is all on a HP n54l using openmediavault as a NAS and I will be using wired connection. My rips are all straight off via makemkv and not been using hand brake for re-encoding as I don't see the point in reducing playback quality when disc space is so cheap.

EDIT No faffing required. Colour me impressed. Blue ray rips are fine even wireless. I can see me buying a second for upstairs.
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I had stutter on some videos but turning off 1 of the hardware acceleration options (there are 2 options) in playback solved this for me.

Also try SPMC (XBMC with more patches) that seems to work flawless for me.
 
RoyMi6 said:
FLIRC USB dongle works for my friend.

Another options is investing in the Harmony Hub range as they utilise Bluetooth to control the AFTV.
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Ill have a look at the FLIRC dongle.

A hub would be nice, but I'm not spending that much just to ditch a single 6 button remote. CEC works fine, when it works. Hopefully FLIRC will be more consistent.
 
I used a FLIRC for the AFTV and had high hopes after reading so much about it. I tried it with various remotes, after upgrading its firmware, but had nothing but problems of repeated key strokes or too much sensitivity. I followed the recommendations and settings to reduce tha tbut still it was very erratic.
I ended up getting a refund from Amazon.
 
FireTV going in MM soon, Pi2 + a NowTV box will be replacing it. It's a good all in one device, but Kodi for android needs a but more maturation in a few areas in my opinion.
 
For all AMD users out there..

I've been looking for an alternative to Steam home streaming so that I can get my PC games on my bedroom tv using the ftv. Limelight is no good as my card isn't Nvidia.

Just discovered Kinoni (Kinoconsole) & it seems to work very well.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kinoni.console

You can side-load it to the ftv then stream your games from your PC via the Kinoni Remote desktop software.

Thanks to this Reddit user!
 
I put Kodi on it yesterday and been using it to stream stuff from my pc and it's even better now than it was before. I just mainly used it for Prime and Netflix as i hated using my PS4 for it and now with it being able to play all mkv's i throw at it even better.
 
Waltagon said:
Thinking of ditching sky and getting one of these. Getting hard to justify the cost of sky.
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Exactly what I am thinking of doing for my father. Can install Kodi in a few mins, whack a few add ons and I have every channel for sports and so on.

Just noticed it is on offer at Amazon till March 2nd, £64. Looking into getting the Fire Stick though, seems its only available in the US but available on eBay with shipping it will still cost less than the full size AFTV.
 
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Biz.Kid09 said:
Just noticed it is on offer at Amazon till March 2nd, £64. Looking into getting the Fire Stick though, seems its only available in the US but available on eBay with shipping it will still cost less than the full size AFTV.
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As I've said before that's a great price for the FireTV - well worth the money.

Shame the stick isn't out in UK yet as the only limitation appears to be lack of an Ethernet port?
 
Agree with the ditching sky bit.
Currently we have smart features in each room, so my amazon prime account is accessible from everywhere.
if i bought a FireTV and put kodi on it does it allow us to watch channels from all over the world? Sports, movies etc?
Or would it be a ball-ache; keep having to re-set up channel numbers etc. Anyone who used to 'exploit' the lack of nagra3 encyrption on VM cable back in the day using Eurovox, Krypt boxes etc will know what i'm talking about. ;)
 
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Banzai_Joe said:
Agree with the ditching sky bit.
Currently we have smart features in each room, so my amazon prime account is accessible from everywhere.
if i bought a FireTV and put kodi on it does it allow us to watch channels from all over the world? Sports, movies etc?
Or would it be a ball-ache; keep having to re-set up channel numbers etc. Anyone who used to 'exploit' the lack of nagra3 encyrption on VM cable back in the day using Eurovox, Krypt boxes etc will know what i'm talking about. ;)
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I used to have a Eurovox too, but Kodi is nothing like that, you can setup a few foreign channels etc, but its streaming, so no matter how good your TV or internet is, if its a crap service, its a waste of time.
 
I bought a FireTV recently primarily for Netflix and streaming from my PC with Kodi or Plex.

Are they actually viable alternatives to Sky and Virgin and are the streams even legal? I haven't really looked in to the addons for Kodi as I just assumed the streams would all be utter gash showing mostly US content.

Would anyone happen to have a link to some reading material about streaming LiveTV for us UK plebs?

Thanks
 
There are virtually no legitimate options for Live UK TV via Kodi (other than PVR via aerial/satellite). The TV Catchup plugin is broken I think, there's another plugin called FTV but not very good quality and questionable reliability. There are a couple of Amazon FTV apps that will allow you to watch some live UK streams, but hardly a replacement for something like a freeview box.

The addons most people refer to do not live stream, they're essentially a pretty front end to various web sources of TV and Movies - non legal. There is some IPTV functionality from within Kodi that'll let to have a pseudo TV Guide and stream channels - but again not legal (as far as I know).
 
Yeah, it's a real shame TVCatchup won't pull their thumbs out and create some apps.

The "TVPlayer" app for the AFTV works well, is free and legal BUT doesn't have a massive amount of channels. Still, worth a try.
 
Is this a good choice if my main purpose is to stream video files from my PC to my TV via my home network (wifi)

Or am I better off with a Roku 3 for that?
 
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