I just recently cancelled my cable and bought a FTV with XBMC loaded on it. I was curious if anyone has any advice or suggestions to layout and integrate my FTV to the rest of the house with chromecasts? I was thinking about using TeamViewer and somehow add Avia, but was hoping for a more elegant method of integrating all these.
I guess I would need to remotely control my FTV and be able to watch using the local HDMI output interface as well as be able to cast to my chrome cast.
Any kind of ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
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I'm hoping someone who has the Ambilight or Lightpack setup on their TV will root a Fire TV and test running Prismatik. Prismatik communicates with lightpack leds to let them know what color to change to match on-screen content. The android beta requires root access to screen grab. The big questions for me are:
1) Will rooting the FireTV disable any of its features (i.e. Amazon Instant Video)?
2) How does the lightpack connect to the FireTV (or OUYA for that matter)? It hooks to the PC via USB.
I imagine that it will work similarly to the way it works with the OUYA but I'd like to see someone else make it work before I buy one. I am an Amazon Prime customer and I love the idea of the Fire TV but I would like to be able to retire the laptop that is running Prismatik before introducing another box.
Fellow Lightpack owner here, seconding the OP. This looks like it has so much potential.
Not really..
If you already have a HTPC( which i guess you do - because lightpack) there's a work around for this..
If this ends up working without any negatives I'm buying this ASAP. Looks great!
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If you already have a HTPC( which i guess you do - because lightpack) there's a work around for this..
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I don't have a HTPC but I've got an old laptop hooked up for that purpose. I am currently running everything through it via the workaround but I'd like to get the laptop out of the equation and just simplify with the Fire TV running XBMC, if it'll work.
I received my FireTV and can't seem to get the Lightpack to be detected. I tried on my Ouya and I am noticing that the popup screen that occurs when Pristmatik detects the Lightpack isn't happening on my FireTV; searching for a work around.
I got the k400 keyboard so I can navigate the Charter TV App. However, I get “Disconnect HDMI to resume playback” message on screen when I try to play a station on it. Any help to resolve this issue would be greatly appreciated.
Bob
Say Bob, did you ever have any luck with the charter app and aftv
It's pretty much known that aftv has lousy cec support. That's fine but I've almost pin pointed a handshake issue to cec on my bedroom aftv. It's hooked up to an old-ish 1080p tv. I can't find a cec option on the tv itself, like I can in the living room. Basically if the tv starts after aftv is powered on any video I play will have audio cut in & out. I reboot often.
So I'm wondering if I can just disable cec to resolve the issue?
There is one concern...I may some day buy a flirc dongle or new tv. So if I disable it I'd like to be able to reenable it if possible. As incredibly annoying as this bug is, I'd rather tolerate it than break it.
had an issue with the AFTV conflicting with my other cec devices so used this on the hdmi for the AFTV and its all sorted now
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lindy-HDMI-Less-Female-Adapter/dp/B00DL48KVI
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had an issue with the AFTV conflicting with my other cec devices so used this on the hdmi for the AFTV and its all sorted now
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lindy-HDMI-Less-Female-Adapter/dp/B00DL48KVI
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Thanks. I'll look into it more. I'm not 100% sure of what this does? Does it basically upgrade the signal?
That may not be the issue here because I've tried higher grade cables. Actually I remember awhile back having handshake issues with Google TV and an older TV set. Customer service actually suggested using a cheap cable ( think 1.0 or 1.1) but that didn't fix it. You've given me a potential fix to look into though. Thanks again.
its and adaptor that removes pin 13 from the HDMI cable making cec on that connection useless but helped with the conflicts i was getting
also if i was to disable the cec on my tv then i would not to be able to you my receiver and sky box so it was the best option for me
i also tried a good decent cable but had no luck with that either
baz2011uk said:
had an issue with the AFTV conflicting with my other cec devices so used this on the hdmi for the AFTV and its all sorted now
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lindy-HDMI-Less-Female-Adapter/dp/B00DL48KVI
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Wow that is a nifty and inexpensive solution.. awesome!
In my searching I also ran upon this adapter - its a tiny bit cheaper and can optionally also be used to transmit IR over the HDMI CEC path
http://www.amazon.com/ViewHD-HDMI-I...id=1426340535&sr=8-1&keywords=hdmi+ir+adapter
lil'debi to the rescue.
https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/148330-ouya-owners-rejoice-pms-at-the-push-of-a-button/
previous experiments/disasters (but also some very helpful links)
https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/69588-plex-for-archlinux-available/page-3#entry805149
I use to run plex connect on Apple tv 3 awhile back and it was great except you needed a static ip and when my Mac lost network connection nothing would work on the Apple tv.
But running plex on fire tv would be useful for devices that don't have kodi.
there are 2 potential issues
1. I have no idea how to automate the script on ran on Mac on my aftv
2. I updated ATV3 to an ios 8 equivalent and I'm not sure plex connect still works. (There was a trick that got Apple trailers to launch plex)
Personally, that's the only benefit I see in plex. It was my goto before xbmc but I just stopped using it.
Really more of a commentary than a question. But if anyone can tell me how I might use this for plex connect please chime in. It was actually pretty cool when I ran it on atv. Or any other benefit I might be missing...
Hello,
I am going out of town this weekend and I was hoping to bring my FireTV. The problem is, I am not sure I will have access to WIFI (almost certainly wont). I have a nexus 6P with T-Mobile so I was thinking of just using it as my streaming device and cast to the FireTV.
If the FireTV is not on a network, can I still cast my phone to it so I can stream the content on the phone to the hotel TV? I am trying to find the best solution to cast what's on my 6P to the TV. Thought I could use FireTV, just not sure if the FireTV MUST be on a network for that to happen. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks