No matter what I try I cannot get Allcast to stream music from google play music to my Apple TV or Roku stick and wanted to know if anyone else has tried this app with root and had any success?
Tried rebooting my router, installed the patch from Allcast multiple times, installed a newer version of SU and no dice it either finds nothing or sits there searching for devices and never finds anything at all.
If I turn on my chrome cast then it only ever see's the chrome cast and nothing else.
For reference Allcast see's all my media devices and I can stream to them fine it's just google play music, photo's and movies which ain't working.
Anyone?
Try going into settings then "share and connect" and take a look at the settings in media server. I had to enable this for streaming to work.
Hello,
I've got the exact same issue with my LG G3 ("searching for devices" in Play Music but ok through the app), did you find a solution ?
Thanks
I just got my Fire TV yesterday and unfortunately it was not able to be rooted out of the box due to its software version. I was able to side load google play store, framework, account manager, and the proper google play services (7.0.99). Apparently this is the last version of play services that will properly function with the fire TV, anything beyond will not work.
First off play store never connects, it always says no connection. So then I side loaded some games to try. They launch but then tell me play services needs to be updated. I have tried side loading the most up to date play services just to give it what it wants and still have no success because the install fails, saying "failed, older SDK".
I simply want to play the games that I already own from the Google play store. Is there any way to do this?
***UPDATE***
I was able to side load over the apks for the updated google play services. And then use es file explorer on the fire tv to install the updated services. It allowed an install and the game launches as normal, it just sits there for 3 seconds and then crashes back to home screen. Tried another game and it just says a network error has occurred and all I can do is retry or cancel.
Just tried another game and it seems to function as normal but at the home screen the game says invalid license. It's a paid app so I'm guessing it can't validate that I paid for it since the play store isn't working. Trying another app now, it's free. Waiting for side load. I'm guessing the play store will never work without root. Anyway to get a new fire TV that ships with older software?
Got a bunch of games to work. It appears that some will work and others just... won't. Some of them are heavily dependent on the play store or something and without my ability to get that working because I can't root, I will have to stick with what I can do. Also some of the games that I can get going have absolutely no controller support and I cant even get passed the title screen. Ill play what I can from the Amazon store I guess.
We have a number of movies on Google Play Movies that we'd like to watch on our Fire TV Stick. We've tried the YouTube app, but whenever we try to watch videos in the Purchased tab, they just buffer indefinitely. Other content plays just fine, and using the Chromecast works for playing purchased videos, but I would rather use the Fire TV. Has anyone else had this issue? And did you figure out a solution?
Thanks!
- Dave
Hi there, did you ever find a solution to this? I would be interested to know this too. (In my case the Google Play Movies do not buffer, they just through an error when I try to watch them using the YouTube app on the Fire TV).
Nope, no solution for this, although I haven't tried recently. Although now that Amazon is part of Disney Anywhere (our 4-year-old dictates most of our movie watching these days), it's less of an issue than it was before.
Okay, too bad. I am not sure Amazon Germany is part of Disney Anywhere. Annoying as I am in the same boat as you, our 3 year old dictates our movie watching and so I have quite a few Disney movies on Google Play...
In case you are interested it works. Without rooting. I followed most of what was mentioned here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-3SWSD232U
I did not install 1Mobile though as I have no use for that, neither did I install the remote app mentioned in the video. I only went through the initial instructions about installing play services, account manager, play store. Then I updated the play store as mentioned. And finally I installed YouTube and Google Play Movies.
The first time I launched Play Movies it asked me to log in. And then I was able to access my library of purchased movies and watch them. It even started them from where I last left off on other devices.
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In case you are interested it works. Without rooting. I followed most of what was mentioned here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-3SWSD232U
I did not install 1Mobile though as I have no use for that, neither did I install the remote app mentioned in the video. I only went through the initial instructions about installing play services, account manager, play store. Then I updated the play store as mentioned. And finally I installed YouTube and Google Play Movies.
The first time I launched Play Movies it asked me to log in. And then I was able to access my library of purchased movies and watch them. It even started them from where I last left off on other devices.
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Where did you get the APK for play movies? I am trying to install this on my Fire TV Stick, but the only version that installs without error is the version for Android TV, which won't even launch on the Fire Stick (my source is apkmirror.com).
Took me awhile, but got this working. Followed that YouTube video exactly, including getting the Wukong Remote app to control the mouse. You can either load Google Play Movies via the 1Mobile app on the video, or else I'm guessing you can also get it on your phone and use an app like AGKFire, or use ADBFire?
Make sure you follow the instructions in the order he installs the different APK's. Good luck.
Success, with some modifications. First, I was unable to click on some of the links to install, perhaps because the trackpad is an essential step. I have no trackpad. Instead, I downloaded those apps to my cell phone and used ES File Explorer to Send the files to the stick. I was still unable to navigate the 1Market app and even had to use the send method to get Google Play Movies, which was my whole point in doing all of this.
With Google Play Movies is installed, it would only play a single movie on my account from where I left off; I was initially unable to navigate the app from the Fire Stick remote to browse my library. I am now able to control the app using a helper app, Remote Mouse for Fire TV, I found out about here: http://www.aftvnews.com/remote-mouse-app-released-for-fire-tv-fire-tv-stick/ and which can be purchased from the Amazon app store, one time, for both the stick and the phone that I am using to remote-control the stick. Initially I thought even this wasn't working, but switching this Remote Mouse app from remote mode to mouse mode did the trick.
In hindsight, now that I know about the remote mouse app (which I had to pay a couple bucks for) it might have worked in place of the trackpad and I probably could have avoided the send file workaround.
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Success, with some modifications. First, I was unable to click on some of the links to install, perhaps because the trackpad is an essential step. I have no trackpad. Instead, I downloaded those apps to my cell phone and used ES File Explorer to Send the files to the stick. I was still unable to navigate the 1Market app and even had to use the send method to get Google Play Movies, which was my whole point in doing all of this.
With Google Play Movies is installed, it would only play a single movie on my account from where I left off; I was initially unable to navigate the app from the Fire Stick remote to browse my library. I am now able to control the app using a helper app, Remote Mouse for Fire TV, I found out about here: http://www.aftvnews.com/remote-mouse-app-released-for-fire-tv-fire-tv-stick/ and which can be purchased from the Amazon app store, one time, for both the stick and the phone that I am using to remote-control the stick. Initially I thought even this wasn't working, but switching this Remote Mouse app from remote mode to mouse mode did the trick.
In hindsight, now that I know about the remote mouse app (which I had to pay a couple bucks for) it might have worked in place of the trackpad and I probably could have avoided the send file workaround.
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with the latest ROM for the fire tv, its not possible to install the get the google play movies to work.
I had issues with following that YouTube video. In order to download the various Google apps (Services etc al) I clicked on the link and then, in the more menu of ES File Manager clicked on Open in Browser which then kicked off the download. This suggests that the steps are version specific with the file manager behaving differently plus I had an issue with getting YouTube installed. YouTube has grown so much that you have to identify an apk so I downloaded the version shown in the video. In fact I gave up on ES File Manager and side loaded apps using Apps2Fire. This also removes the need to install 1Mobile.
Wukong did not work for me as it did not recognise mouse clicks and has been replaced with another app. So I grabbed hold of Remote Mouse for Fire TV which works like a charm.
I downloaded and installed all the programs and opened the Google play app. It seems to do nothing though, what did I do wrong?
Easiest work around is to play it on your phone and mirror the screen to your firestick. Works perfectly for me.
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Easiest work around is to play it on your phone and mirror the screen to your firestick. Works perfectly for me.
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what's the best way to mirror from Android to the stick?
It seems watching Google Play Movies on an Amazon Fire TV is much simpler now. Just use the official Silk Browser app from the Amazon app store, and sign in at play.google.com.
When you go to your library, you will be taken to YouTube to play your videos. Just make sure you are signed in there too.
Hi friends...
I just got my Fire Phone I think is amazing phone, I just updated to Fire OS 4.6.3 and installed the google service, playstore, etc
and everything works perfect, youtube, google maps, facebook, etc it's really amazing this device I like it
The only problem is that I can not use the Periscope App (that's the reason I bought the phone as a secondary device,
and I want it to watch streamings in this device)
When I want to watch a live streaming or a replay
always says "trying to connect" just 1 or 3 seconds playing and then stop saying "trying to connect"
And also I can stream my self , but I can not watch streamings from others
Somebody has periscope App running? can you please tell me what version of the app, and google services, you have?
I really appreciate your help!
I'm using
Fire OS: 4.6.3
Google Play Services version 7.8.99
Google Play Store version 5.7.10
Chema
chemabarboza said:
Hi friends...
I just got my Fire Phone I think is amazing phone, I just updated to Fire OS 4.6.3 and installed the google service, playstore, etc
and everything works perfect, youtube, google maps, facebook, etc it's really amazing this device I like it
The only problem is that I can not use the Periscope App (that's the reason I bought the phone as a secondary device,
and I want it to watch streamings in this device)
When I want to watch a live streaming or a replay
always says "trying to connect" just 1 or 3 seconds playing and then stop saying "trying to connect"
And also I can stream my self , but I can not watch streamings from others
Somebody has periscope App running? can you please tell me what version of the app, and google services, you have?
I really appreciate your help!
I'm using
Fire OS: 4.6.3
Google Play Services version 7.8.99
Google Play Store version 5.7.10
Chema
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I have the same problem. I wrote many many times to periscope's support and last time they said me they're still working on it (a month ago).
There's surely something with the streaming protocol, cause I've noticed that Twitch has exactly the same behavior.
So if you take the periscope App .apk and upload it to amazon developer app checker here is what it says about the app:
Areas of app optimization
Amazon Phone and Tablet Devices
1 Caution(s)
Caution : Google Cloud Messaging Detected
Your APK includes a manifest declaration or an API invocation referring to Google Cloud Messaging.
Other Android Devices
No Issues Found
I certainly do not know what this means exactly, but maybe thats the reason the persicope app does not work properly.
So I've been having a lot of trouble with my Z5 Premium, one of the biggest problems is randomly not being able to watch videos on any type of internet service, such as YouTube, Netflix, hulu, HBO Go, Facebook, and Snapchat. This includes GIFs too. I have to restart my phone constantly to get videos to work properly. While on YouTube I can either watch 1 or 7 videos, then it will stop randomly and say "video can't play, Tap to retry". This is an unlocked phone being used in the USA and I have not been able to update operating system or anything else.
Try factory reset