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
hdjoe said:
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..
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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?
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!
evodev said:
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.
I have not been able to get my Fire sticks to work right with ADBfire I'm no expert but I am no noob at these things either. Is there any way you can clone the whole stick? Im talking like how you can do with HDD to SSD for simple plug in and play stuff... Thwse have 6 gb of storage cant you just clone the setup you want and completely overwrite it to another stick for no hassles like HDD to SSD cloning? Whats the best way to setup many FSTV's fast? Any help would be great.
Thanks
Mightbaal said:
I have not been able to get my Fire sticks to work right with ADBfire I'm no expert but I am no noob at these things either. Is there any way you can clone the whole stick? Im talking like how you can do with HDD to SSD for simple plug in and play stuff... Thwse have 6 gb of storage cant you just clone the setup you want and completely overwrite it to another stick for no hassles like HDD to SSD cloning? Whats the best way to setup many FSTV's fast? Any help would be great.
Thanks
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Not in the way that you are suggesting. There are several options though.
If you just want Kodi's settings cloned then you can either use one of the backup addons from within Kodi, copy it to the new stick then restore.
You could also plug the stick into a PC and copy the .kodi folder and replace on the new stick the same way.
You could use ES File Explorer to copy the .kodi folder directly from the stick, to a PC and restore the same way.
I have installed Kodi on my firetv (rooted)when I tried to save a film to my usb flash drive but it would not let me also the same with sdcard.
Thanks for any help z4
Cool, bro!
*silence*
Fat32 has a filesize limit of 4GB > movie was larger > *pity* > Android 5.x doesnt mount the sdcard2 as writeable by default anymore (not sure what it does with USB media) > if you used a program that cant pull root rights to remount the drive > *pity*.
(If you are looking for such a program: Total Commander (Amazon App Store).)
edit: If you are talking about moving a file to those two kinds of storage media from a PC or (have mercy) a tablet - and dont know about filesystems (fat32, ntfs, ...) or that the Fire TV devices are locked down to only be able to read fat32 by Amazon itself (there might be a workaround for rooted devices - search these forums) - thats entirely your fault.
Also at this point I would commend you for not using the words PC or the program you tried to use at all and just having clicked away the error message - because this makes our part of the question/answer game - so much easier.
Short answer for dudebros: Buy a NAS, or a router with an USB port (dd-wrt compatible ones cost 10-30 USD used) if the 4GB filesizelimt of fat32 is the problem - or wait until someone cares to tell you if there is a root solution to mounting different filesystems on a rooted Fire TV. Also if you have a Fire TV 2 and just have dropped the 2, because - why not - theres currently no such solution that has been publicly explored. Maybe tomorrow. But If there is not - *shrug* (Most of us (probably) use NAS boxes or network shares, you (probably) dont.)
I am a newbie with the fire tv so there is a lot I dont understand all I wanted to do was save a avi file from Genesis in Kodi to a usb flash drive.
z4
zephyr4 said:
I am a newbie with the fire tv so there is a lot I dont understand all I wanted to do was save a avi file from Genesis in Kodi to a usb flash drive.
z4
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Just like on the official kodi forums you won't get here any support for piracy add-ons.
https://kodi.tv/the-piracy-box-sellers-and-youtube-promoters-are-killing-kodi/
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Ok sorry, I never thought about that.
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?