hey, i have an unrooted firetv and im trying to play some roms through xbmc (using rom collection browser). the roms are located on a NAS drive which all my devices have access to. I was able to get the plugin to import the roms and scrape the data but when i try to play any rom using an emulator i installed i get a message saying "unable to locate path sda1/blahblahblah/roms, path does not exist". I figure that this is because the device wont allow me to play the roms from the network shared
but if i were to root my drive - would it be possible to play the games i have from the shared drive or would i have to try something else like Samba or mounting a USB stick and porting the games to it?
even though XBMC can see the network drive.. im not sure if the fire TV itself does, so how would i let my firetv have access to the shared drive so i wont see this message anymore?
anyone able to help? im wondering if side-loading this SMB app on the fire tv will allow the device itself to see the shared folder and play games from it
has anyone tried this as yet?
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I found this albeit old video of it running without needing a unlocked bootloader or custom ROM ,but the img file is larger than 3.5GB.
It can even access Wi-Fi properly and use FireFox!
Can it run the upcoming Linux port of Goat Simulator? (I doubt it,but it might on more modern Androids)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d_diU7i7Z0
I want to put the img file on my 32GB mass media storage and use it from there.
Mayber there is a newer version of Linux (ubuntu) that runs way faster in comparison with that old 2011 version.
Can someone please help me with this?
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I just found out that there is a later version that can be used.
The 13.10 version of Ubuntu Linux.
Page for installing.
www.opensourcegangster.com/run-ubuntu-13-10-on-android/
I always hate it when they tell you to do stuff that is only accessible normally through official stock android!
It is probably easy to do using SQLite on settings provider for Fire TV.
I still need to know if I can use the .img file on my 32GB USB Mass Storage stick via stickmount instead of deleting everything to make room for the file on my internal storage.
I would assume that it works if I simply change the img directory to the stickmount provided USB directory.
While nobody replied to my thread,I have got ubuntu to run on my Fire TV!
The big issue is that I can't get the more important applications like "Web Browser" to open.
I can open the image viewer and access my images and various other applications work as well,just not the web browser.
I also need to know how to properly install apps so I can get other things running.
I can also confirm the large 4GB ubuntu running with the image in usbStorage/sda1/ubuntu.img via stickmount on my 32GB storage.
Small could be good too
If you could do the same with smaller linux distros - like DamnSmallLinux - could that be useful to fix some bricked devices?
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If you could do the same with smaller linux distros - like DamnSmallLinux - could that be useful to fix some bricked devices?
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From reading the guide it seems like all it is is Ubuntu in a chroot. So the fire TV needs to be booting properly.
I'm not owning a fire tv at the moment, but i'm looking into buying one.
My goal is to replace my old Rpi which is running a little bit slow for me as I run on it a couple of software:
- XBMC/Kodi
- samba
-Nginx as web server
- VPN server
- FTP, SMB, NFS
- Deluge, Sickrage, couchpotato... and more can not remember all of them right now.
in few words I use it as media center, file server and torrent server..
So I understood that is possible to install Kodi on the fire TV by doing a side loading of the apk file and install it.
That will solve the media center part, but what about the rest?
chroot could be a solution to run the other linux services that I need, basically I don't need GUI in chroot, is enough if I can connect via SSH and run my services there.
And in addition I would need to have a USB HDD plugged in to store the media content which get's downloaded automatically.
Could this setup run on a fire tv in conjunction with chroot ? Any ideas why wouldn't ?
I've been reading and reading on xda, xbmc.org.... And I've got my aftv rooted, xbmc installed and working well... I've got a usb stick on it with stickmount... What I can't seem to find is how to get movies I download on aftv xbmc to save on the usb stick...
Also, where can I get an up to date gsnes emulator apk and how do I get roms on the usb stick? Just save from my laptop on the stick and put it back on the firetv?
Thanks for any help
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I've been reading and reading on xda, xbmc.org.... And I've got my aftv rooted, xbmc installed and working well... I've got a usb stick on it with stickmount... What I can't seem to find is how to get movies I download on aftv xbmc to save on the usb stick...
Also, where can I get an up to date gsnes emulator apk and how do I get roms on the usb stick? Just save from my laptop on the stick and put it back on the firetv?
Thanks for any help
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I use Total Commander for moving files from my computer to my usb stick in my AFTV.
XBMC has config files you can change the location of stuff in them. There is probably a few threads explaining how. I'd do a search.
I use Foldermount to move some of my Xbmc stuff to my usbstick. But I don't download movies thru xbmc, so I don't know if it stores them there.
Google Play store will have your up to date emulators. At the very least, they have links to the dev's websites which usually have the apk's you can download.
I made a directory on my usbstick called ROMS and then I make sub directories, like NES, SNES, GBA, Gen, etc for my roms & bios (as needed).
Thanks for your help! Once I get my 32gb stick tomorrow, I'll get locked down how you said..
How do I go about connecting Kodi on my FireTV to my Mac on the same network? I'd like to back up Kodi and save the backups externally on my Mac, but I'm not sure how to access my Mac from the Fire TV. For example, when I go to the "Install from Zip File" window, I don't see any references to my Mac's hard drive listed in the sources there.
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How do I go about connecting Kodi on my FireTV to my Mac on the same network? I'd like to back up Kodi and save the backups externally on my Mac, but I'm not sure how to access my Mac from the Fire TV. For example, when I go to the "Install from Zip File" window, I don't see any references to my Mac's hard drive listed in the sources there.
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You can try NFS or FTP (however ftp makes your password visible in Kodi's sources list). SMB and AFP shares never seem to work right for me on OSX with Kodi. Actually NFS can be a pain too.
You may just what to push the file to the SDcard with adbfire
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2786505
To add the sdcard to the Install from zip file source selection list in Kodi:
System>File Manager>Add source>Browse>select root filesystem>select sdcard
click ok
give it a name like #sdcard, the Hash tag is only to put it at the top of the source list alphabetically.
You can delete the zip file when you are done with ADBfire too.
I appreciate the reply. Yes, I've been using the SDcard as my connection point, but I was hoping to be able to connect my Fire TV to my Mac so I could schedule Backup to automatically store backups off of the Fire TV. In lieu of my Mac, I attempted to use my Dropbox account, but ran into difficulties there as well, which I'll post in a new thread.
Create an smb (windows) share on your Mac. If you want to use a password for the share create a user for network shares or use your own (gives a warning about not secure password storage). Otherwise enable the guest account on your Mac for network shares and add your destination folder to the list of shares in system settings.
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Success! Thank you, superkoal, for pointing the way. I was able to finally connect my Mac to my Fire TV.
The only bummer is the Backup program add-on still throws an error when I try and do a backup to my Mac. (I thought it might be a problem with using Dropbox as a backup location). But at least I'm finally connected, and that will certainly come in handy elsewhere.
Many thanks!
Could someone please post this method with more details for us newbs? The only method I have been able to figure out (and I've tried LOTS of guides and a parade of programs) is using SSHDroid and Yummy FTP on my Mac. Something is lacking here as if you send a large file it seems to hang at 2.14 GB and never complete. Don't know if that's a SSHDroid issue or not.
Wound up moving to es file explorer and have a more stable connection with no issues sending that large file. Guide is on my site as it's loaded with pictures. I can't post links so go to hackthatphone.com, click tutorials, click the fire tv icon and you'll see the short guide list I have.
My next goal: learning how to unmount and remount an external hard drive through a powered hub, if it's even possible....
Hey guys. Looking at buying the amazon fire tv for my room to watch movies, tv shows, and maybe play some gta. But im determining if its the right fit for me. So i was wondering if its possible to connect my 2tb usb2/3 hdd to the fire tv, and is it possible to have a torrent client (maybe just utorrent after sideloading play store?) to download lage files to the hard drive. Also i assume ill have to root so is the newest version rootable and can do what i asked above? Im not sure what the newest version is to look it up myself. Any guides on how to do what i asked will be much appreciated!
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Hey guys. Looking at buying the amazon fire tv for my room to watch movies, tv shows, and maybe play some gta. But im determining if its the right fit for me. So i was wondering if its possible to connect my 2tb usb2/3 hdd to the fire tv, and is it possible to have a torrent client (maybe just utorrent after sideloading play store?) to download lage files to the hard drive. Also i assume ill have to root so is the newest version rootable and can do what i asked above? Im not sure what the newest version is to look it up myself. Any guides on how to do what i asked will be much appreciated!
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Yes the latest version of the Fire Tv (AFTV2 4K version) is rootable (v5.0.4), you can find the method in the general section of this forum or there is gonna be a video guide available sometime next week (hopefully) if you can wait? As far as I know you can put a Hard drive on but not sure unless modded you can write to it (unless doing via a PC/laptop because I think at the moment the drive is only readable? (I maybe wrong about that though?). Playstore can be installed but can't be used properly (can login but can't download apps from), but you can sideload apps via a app called Apps2Fire from your Android phone or tablet. Think you can use torrent clients via Kodi anyway or just stream films/tv/sports or what ever from Kodi?
Root link 5.0.4 - http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/general/root-amazon-fire-tv-2-updated-t3277556
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Can someone chime if they've been able to mount and write to an external hard drive? I'm also interested in using the fire tv for torrents.
I have the fire TV 4k with the latest rooted version, I mounted a 3TB WD hard drive with Stickmount. I have used the Utorrent apk to write to the hard drive successfully. I haven't used the Kodi torrent addons tho.
But yes you can read and write to a hard drive. I have downloaded media straight to a hard drive using Utorrent, Kodi, Dolphin browser and Es File Manager.
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I have the fire TV 4k with the latest rooted version, I mounted a 3TB WD hard drive with Stickmount. I have used the Utorrent apk to write to the hard drive successfully. I haven't used the Kodi torrent addons tho.
But yes you can read and write to a hard drive. I have downloaded media straight to a hard drive using Utorrent, Kodi, Dolphin browser and Es File Manager.
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Which format is your 3TB HDD.
I have not rooted mine and can only get fat32 to read which is ridiculous in this day and age to only support an archaic storage format. You can't have 4GB+ file sizes.
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Which format is your 3TB HDD.
I have not rooted mine and can only get fat32 to read which is ridiculous in this day and age to only support an archaic storage format. You can't have 4GB+ file sizes.
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NTFS. I just finished downloading a 9GB video.
Here is a video showing my Fire Stick with otg enabled using a San disk flash drive and a generic hdd dock. I have the command to enable OTG autorun at boot as a script from within rom roolbox lite.
It only works with es file explorer for some reason, maybe if your a developer and would like to try figure out how to get it working more universal jump in with your thoughts.
I can install from the flash/HDD and watch video listen to audio (open with either es media or Kodi).
Ive treid to do the same with another fire stick and cant get same results.
Let me know what you think here or on the youtube video, maybe we can get this working for all.
https://youtu.be/JL6u_qBaur4
This is exciting. I've been very interested in this possibility for a while. Working in Kodi, ES, and I would guess anything that can access (and request permission to access) the local file system should also work.
Any idea why it's not something you can replicate on other Sticks?