Amazon Fire TV

easyrider · 1 Aug 2016 at 02:16

Anyone running US Netflix with fire tv 4K

I want that aswell as working Amazon prime video...is this possible ?

Cheezymon · 2 Aug 2016 at 18:06

Skeeter said:
http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-get-kodi-to-show-up-on-the-home-screen-of-a-fire-tv-or-fire-tv-stick/

Hmm, seems it could be linked to having installed Kodi from the app store before it was removed, which obviously no 4k user will have done as the app was pulled before the 4k was released.

I'm going to try the deregister/reregister trick.

This, I had to deregister/register to get Kodi back on the homepage after the update that blocked firestarter.

NeilF · 8 Aug 2016 at 14:51

Any of you lot running Kodi on your Fire TV (4k)? Thoughts?

There seems to be plenty of youtube videos showing you how to install it direction from the Kodi website (easily using ES Explorer). Is this the best route?

EDIT: "Hmm, seems it could be linked to having installed Kodi from the app store before it was removed" - Why was the dedicated app removed?

CK61938 · 8 Aug 2016 at 15:29

NeilFawcett said:
Any of you lot running Kodi on your Fire TV (4k)? Thoughts?

There seems to be plenty of youtube videos showing you how to install it direction from the Kodi website (easily using ES Explorer). Is this the best route?

EDIT: "Hmm, seems it could be linked to having installed Kodi from the app store before it was removed" - Why was the dedicated app removed?

I used adbFire (now called adbLink) to install Kodi on the Fire TV. Didn't need to touch ES File Explorer. I also moved Kodi from the internal storage to the MicroSD card so it doesn't use up so much space. When I checked my Fire TV, it had installed around 5GB of data for Kodi alone! This was freed up once I did the move from internal to microSD. There is a tutorial for this and is very easy to follow.

tom_e · 8 Aug 2016 at 15:30

NeilFawcett said:
Any of you lot running Kodi on your Fire TV (4k)? Thoughts?

There seems to be plenty of youtube videos showing you how to install it direction from the Kodi website (easily using ES Explorer). Is this the best route?

EDIT: "Hmm, seems it could be linked to having installed Kodi from the app store before it was removed" - Why was the dedicated app removed?

Probably due to the fact many people have it installed purely to allow them access to pirate material.

NeilF · 8 Aug 2016 at 15:36

CK61938 said:
I used adbFire (now called adbLink) to install Kodi on the Fire TV. Didn't need to touch ES File Explorer. I also moved Kodi from the internal storage to the MicroSD card so it doesn't use up so much space. When I checked my Fire TV, it had installed around 5GB of data for Kodi alone! This was freed up once I did the move from internal to microSD. There is a tutorial for this and is very easy to follow.

Ta!

I've got Plex running fairly happily. How well does Kodi run on the Fire TV? No issue with audio formats (eg: DTS-X) etc?

CK61938 · 9 Aug 2016 at 19:44

NeilFawcett said:
Ta!

I've got Plex running fairly happily. How well does Kodi run on the Fire TV? No issue with audio formats (eg: DTS-X) etc?

No issue with audio that I have noticed. But I don't use DTS seeing as I have a soundbar. But audio is good and you can customise it within the settings of Kodi.

On a side note: Anyone having issues launching Kodi from their Fire TV/stick? Everytime I do it, it just loads a black screen or goes back to the main screen. Might give it a re-install and see what happens.

McMav · 9 Aug 2016 at 20:51

CK61938 said:
No issue with audio that I have noticed. But I don't use DTS seeing as I have a soundbar. But audio is good and you can customise it within the settings of Kodi.

On a side note: Anyone having issues launching Kodi from their Fire TV/stick? Everytime I do it, it just loads a black screen or goes back to the main screen. Might give it a re-install and see what happens.

No problem with kodi on my fire stick but I just picked it up at weekend but pretty impressed. Reinstall won't hurt too much

CK61938 · 9 Aug 2016 at 22:51

McMav said:
No problem with kodi on my fire stick but I just picked it up at weekend but pretty impressed. Reinstall won't hurt too much

I think it might be the SD card I am using for it. Looks like it's corrupted. The stick works fine after a reboot. But the SD card I use in the 4K TV box itself. Let's hope formatting it helps!

iMacMart · 10 Aug 2016 at 13:39

Hi Chaps

Can I find 4K content on my Amazon 4K box? Got a new TV coming tomorrow so want to have the box ready to show in all its glory

Psycho Sonny · 10 Aug 2016 at 14:10

iMacMart said:
Hi Chaps

Can I find 4K content on my Amazon 4K box? Got a new TV coming tomorrow so want to have the box ready to show in all its glory

prime video has 4k content. 4k youtube?

iMacMart · 10 Aug 2016 at 14:48

Great, how do I find it though? I've searched and not found anything with 4k content

Torch [P4] · 10 Aug 2016 at 15:48

when i plugged in my new tv the box recognised the higher resolution and started to display a 4k section at the top of my home page, if you try going to tv shows then you might see them in there

maj · 10 Aug 2016 at 17:30

I have Amazon Video as an app on my smart TV and if I select 'TV' on the main menu menu, the 4K stuff is about the 4th row down.

iMacMart · 10 Aug 2016 at 20:16

Torch [P4];29886825 said:
when i plugged in my new tv the box recognised the higher resolution and started to display a 4k section at the top of my home page, if you try going to tv shows then you might see them in there

maj said:
I have Amazon Video as an app on my smart TV and if I select 'TV' on the main menu menu, the 4K stuff is about the 4th row down.

Great thanks both ....

Em3bbs · 15 Aug 2016 at 16:24

Zatoichi.uK said:
Anyone installed and configured RetroArch at all? I've setup the SNES9x emulator which runs nicely but Retroarch does pretty much every emulator. Bit of a hassle to set up though it seems.

I've set it up, once you get used to it then it's pretty easy to navigate around. I'm not even using a front end, I just select the games straight from Retroarch.

Zatoichi.uK · 15 Aug 2016 at 16:31

Em3bbs said:
I've set it up, once you get used to it then it's pretty easy to navigate around. I'm not even using a front end, I just select the games straight from Retroarch.

Ah nice one. I gave up in the end and just use mame4droid and snes9x. I'm not fussed about other emulators really.

Em3bbs · 15 Aug 2016 at 16:38

Zatoichi.uK said:
Ah nice one. I gave up in the end and just use mame4droid and snes9x. I'm not fussed about other emulators really.

How is mame4droid? I have an old 70s arcade cabinet which has a PC I built in 2003(!) and I'm thinking of converting it to a Fire TV setup.

Zatoichi.uK · 15 Aug 2016 at 16:52

I've had issues with various roms not working and it seems to only like certain versions, or need parent roms more often than other emulators. I've basically dumped the US, EU, U versions in and it seems to eventually work. Apparently it's based on an older version of MAME, though it shouldn't matter for 80s and 90s games apparently.

Give it a shot.

1mm3 · 15 Aug 2016 at 18:08

I have a 4k amzon fire tv and previously had firestarter installed- the auto update seems to have got rid of it but i do have Kodi on my home screen like the screenshot here

My internet (Virgin media) has been playing up and the fire tv kicks me out of kodi and wont work unless connected to the internet?

Is there any way to prevent this & allow me to continue playback of local files (NAS)/should i reinstall firestarter? A link to a guide would be appreciated

Thanks