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Xbmc Torrents on AFT

Has anyone installed xbmc-torrents on Amazon Fire Tv and experienced any problems? Thx

athosk said:
Has anyone installed xbmc-torrents on Amazon Fire Tv and experienced any problems? Thx
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Works perfectly fine for me
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athosk said:
Has anyone installed xbmc-torrents on Amazon Fire Tv and experienced any problems? Thx
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I have che following setup.
Rooted ftv. Xbmc 13.1. Stick mount to connect an external HDD.
Xbmctorrent is configured to save stuff on a subdir in the HDD. It works fine for TV series episodes. Yesterday night I tried with a movie and had two times the fire TV to completely crash after something like 15 minutes watching. I guess this might be related to having downloaded a file which is larger than a certain threshold. The first time it crashed I also got scared because it was stuck in the Amazon black screen without any sign of life. I removed power for a while to have it start back.
I am watching a TV episode now and it seems fine.
The other issue I experienced is sometimes getting the Xbmctorrent script failed. Not on eztv though, I guess this is related on how they handle individual sources.
Any help or other experiences?
Do you guys also know a better way integrated in xbmc to pick up a torrent to be downloaded and then watch it later, rather than immediately streaming?

I have two AFTV with XBMC 13.1 and xbmctorrent.
I never had issues with any files over 4gb. I mounted a usb flash drive (NTFS formatted) with stickmount, but I don't use that for xbmctorrent. I have xbmctorrent buffer up on the AFTV internal memory.

Shinyhead said:
I have two AFTV with XBMC 13.1 and xbmctorrent.
I never had issues with any files over 4gb. I mounted a usb flash drive (NTFS formatted) with stickmount, but I don't use that for xbmctorrent. I have xbmctorrent buffer up on the AFTV internal memory.
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This is really interesting. I wonder why I have so serious issues.
Yesterday I tried with a TV show, and it was stopping the reproduction immediately after starting, even though the download had no problems at all! After tried a few times, I had again the most disruptive crash with AFTV stuck on the black screen with white amazon logo. After that, I decided to uninstall the plugin.
Any suggestion?!

bastXda said:
This is really interesting. I wonder why I have so serious issues.
Yesterday I tried with a TV show, and it was stopping the reproduction immediately after starting, even though the download had no problems at all! After tried a few times, I had again the most disruptive crash with AFTV stuck on the black screen with white amazon logo. After that, I decided to uninstall the plugin.
Any suggestion?!
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Try not putting any path for the download field in xbmctorrent, so it will use the internal memory to download on.

XBMCTorrent
This issue is happenning to me as well, I have toyed with all the options\save pathes possible, nothing seems to fix it.
I also opened an Issue on XBMCTorrent's Gibhub and Stream (a fork of this addon) but no help yet.
This is my favorite addon and it's a total deal-breaker for me about the AFTV
I really hope someone will find a fix for this...

Is there a difference between xbmc torrent and an android based torrent client?
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Dragracekid said:
Is there a difference between xbmc torrent and an android based torrent client?
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the difference is xbmc isnt a regular torrent addon. Its used only to stream/seed movies. you cant load a regular torrent file and expect it to download.

Oh ok cool thanks
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I think the solution is simple.....uninstall XBMC and install SPMC (XBMC for Ouya). Alot more stable and dosnt keep the data stuck in memory.
You can get it here
https://github.com/koying/SPMC/releases/download/13.2.1-spmc/spmc-armeabi-v7a_13.2.1.apk

athosk said:
I think the solution is simple.....uninstall XBMC and install SPMC (XBMC for Ouya). Alot more stable and dosnt keep the data stuck in memory.
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Is there evidence of better behavior of SPMC on AFTV than regular XBMC? I just went to the official XBMC, but maybe I did the wrong choice! Is it possible to install it without losing all the preferences over current XBMC?

I'm using the xbmc with the launcher mod, and last night got the xbmctorrent to sort of work. It was making my firetv unstable, I had at least two blackscreens while using it.
I'm not on the latest xbmc but am on the latest torrent plugin, but at this point I'm not inclined to keep chasing the plugin too often, neat as it is when it works.

bastXda said:
Is there evidence of better behavior of SPMC on AFTV than regular XBMC? I just went to the official XBMC, but maybe I did the wrong choice! Is it possible to install it without losing all the preferences over current XBMC?
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the older version of spmc works the best.
load the apk on post 9
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=54237038&postcount=9

I have personally tried XBMC on all available platforms (Apple TV, Ipad, Windows 8.1, Android minix, Android tv box wih quad core processor and 8core graphics card capable of 4K output). Best one i think is windows.....it would be apple tv but that only gives 720p output.
Now, with Amazon, XBMC torrents somehow data is being saved somewhere and if you look at the screen before launching it, you will notice that the data file keeps getting bigger and at some point that would create a problem as AFT has only 8 GB memory.
With SPMC, I haven't really seen any increaments on the data file size...i wil keep you posted in the next few days if i notice any change

I've been seeing many of the issues with xbmc torrent that I've heard reported from others - problems downloading, issues where, once a stream gets into enough trouble, the box itself resets, very long initial load times.
I thought I was giving up on it, but I was curious and decided to look into what I was seeing.
Once things get bad enough that the FTV bombs out, I also noticed that I needed to reset my firewall to get anything going on the internet in the house - aside from things that were running before I started xbmc torrent.
I took a look, and my firewall has an 8064 session limit. What I'm seeing is that I need to limit how many sessions a single client can spin up. The xbmc torrent plugin is insanely chatty, and it was exhausing my session pool!
When things got to their worst, I wasn't able to get DNS moving and when I dug in, I found that what I was seeing was that I couldn't translate the DNS requests from my lan. (In some ways, the firewall I'm using is a gynormous pain in the butt - it'd be nice if I had more than 8k outbound translations - but it makes up for it with truly epic diagnostic info.)
So, it's worth trying to see if there's a way limit the number of connections a client on your network can establish. I'm getting decent performance and still having resources available to other systems using a 512 session limit.
My impression on the FTV rebooting is that once DNS was unavailable, other services I was trying to run were crapping out, taking the OS with them.

XBMCTorrent
athosk said:
I think the solution is simple.....uninstall XBMC and install SPMC (XBMC for Ouya). Alot more stable and dosnt keep the data stuck in memory.
You can get it here
https://github.com/koying/SPMC/releases/download/13.2.1-spmc/spmc-armeabi-v7a_13.2.1.apk
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mejdam said:
the older version of spmc works the best.
load the apk on post 9
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=54237038&postcount=9
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I have tried XBMC 13.1 official, BeyondXBMC, XBMC For Ouya and SPMC.
In all of them the plugin had made my XBMC go crazy and eventually reboot the entire Fire TV, on some occasions even corrupted my XBMC Skin settings somehow.
athosk said:
I have personally tried XBMC on all available platforms (Apple TV, Ipad, Windows 8.1, Android minix, Android tv box wih quad core processor and 8core graphics card capable of 4K output). Best one i think is windows.....it would be apple tv but that only gives 720p output.
Now, with Amazon, XBMC torrents somehow data is being saved somewhere and if you look at the screen before launching it, you will notice that the data file keeps getting bigger and at some point that would create a problem as AFT has only 8 GB memory.
With SPMC, I haven't really seen any increaments on the data file size...i wil keep you posted in the next few days if i notice any change
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roustabout said:
I've been seeing many of the issues with xbmc torrent that I've heard reported from others - problems downloading, issues where, once a stream gets into enough trouble, the box itself resets, very long initial load times.
I thought I was giving up on it, but I was curious and decided to look into what I was seeing.
Once things get bad enough that the FTV bombs out, I also noticed that I needed to reset my firewall to get anything going on the internet in the house - aside from things that were running before I started xbmc torrent.
I took a look, and my firewall has an 8064 session limit. What I'm seeing is that I need to limit how many sessions a single client can spin up. The xbmc torrent plugin is insanely chatty, and it was exhausing my session pool!
When things got to their worst, I wasn't able to get DNS moving and when I dug in, I found that what I was seeing was that I couldn't translate the DNS requests from my lan. (In some ways, the firewall I'm using is a gynormous pain in the butt - it'd be nice if I had more than 8k outbound translations - but it makes up for it with truly epic diagnostic info.)
So, it's worth trying to see if there's a way limit the number of connections a client on your network can establish. I'm getting decent performance and still having resources available to other systems using a 512 session limit.
My impression on the FTV rebooting is that once DNS was unavailable, other services I was trying to run were crapping out, taking the OS with them.
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This is very interesting!
I have tried various combonations of this plugin (keep torrents, trying to save to SMB share, to Disk on Key, changing File Systems [exFAT,fat32,ntfs] and nothing seemed to work).
I have never thought of it as a network problem...
It works so good on my Windows PC and my Android Mini PC...
Maybe someone can post a way to limit the connections?
Thanks

Yeah maybe you are on the right track. My xbmctorrent also crashes quite oftenly and makes my firetv to reboot. It's very annoying.
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KillerJoeBR said:
Yeah maybe you are on the right track. My xbmctorrent also crashes quite oftenly and makes my firetv to reboot. It's very annoying.
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Same for me.

Has anyone gotten the stream plugin to work? It's being actively developed and is apparently a fork of the xbmc torrent code.
I'm unable to get it to run, either on ftv or on a tablet, and the diagnostic logging doesn't say much to me.
My firewall supports outbound rules that apply per host, and the values it takes are sess-limit per-src-ip <number>
Probably you can do something similar in one of the open source dd-wrt platforms. There's an interesting discussion of advanced config of those at http://markmaunder.com/2011/01/26/h...-your-room-mate-or-bad-office-colleague-uses/ - but it doesn't cover sessions, but rather total per-address or per-network bandwidth. (Which I've also had set up to deal with aftv chewing up everything it can when I need to have a few hundred low-latency kilobits to reach the office - it's challenging to apply QoS to inbound, simpler to drop everything over a cap that's trying to reach a host. I unset those rules before trying xbmctorrent.)
I have the impression that xbmctorrent, at least, has its own torrent client built in. And although I've seen a configuration in the system / network menus that lets you define a proxy for xbmc to use, I haven't seen a similar config for global torrent settings.
Many standalone torrent clients have a lot of controls over maximum connections, in addition to upload/download speeds, etc.
I haven't looked to see whether a standalone torrent client, or one of the various torrent plugins for xbmc, might be able to give one systemwide control over session initiation, session timeout and session number - applying some settings that xbmctorrent would need to respect, in essence.
I suspect that they'd make it harder to use if they were able to control those things, though - xbmctorrent is doing something pretty unusual: it's polling a swarm of peers (into the thousands) and asking not just 'who has the file' but 'who has this specific piece of the file starting at time X'
It would be nice if those kinds of advanced network settings were available in the configuration of one of these video on demand torrent clients, though

Amazon Fire tv running Kodi

Hello All,
I wanted to see if anyone can help me out on this issue.. I have a amazon firetv running latest firmware on it. It was on Gothom running fine and i completely uninstalled gothom and did a sideload of Kodi. I installed all the repo.. When watching a show the unit has become extremly slow and it is always buffering.. Not sure if it the site or the unit and something wrong with it.. Is anyone else having this issue.
thanks once again

cd112 said:
Hello All,
I wanted to see if anyone can help me out on this issue.. I have a amazon firetv running latest firmware on it. It was on Gothom running fine and i completely uninstalled gothom and did a sideload of Kodi. I installed all the repo.. When watching a show the unit has become extremly slow and it is always buffering.. Not sure if it the site or the unit and something wrong with it.. Is anyone else having this issue.
thanks once again
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I am using Kodi and it is working fine but i have rooted my fire tv so i am not using stocked amazon latest firmware so i am not sure if the latest stock firmware updates from amazon caused kodi to be slowed. I would check the basic things, internet connection speed, clear cache, apply the 0 cache setting to resolve the buffering. Also try to run the sames addon and shows or movies you watched on AFT on another device to see if you have the same issue. This will help you eliminated if it is a device issued or the issue is across the board, it could be the source it self is slow.
If you are wi fi try Ethernet is always best. if nothing helps, you can always remove kodi and install gotham or use SPMC or TVMC both are on amazon app store (free).
Sometime different version do slow things down when it comes to xbmc, I can tell on raspberry PI when i upgraded from Frodo to gothom, it was really really slow so i re installed Frodo.
Thank you

you need the zero cache mod to fix the buffering but tbh i had issues with kodi and tried all the build
i installed spmc ...have had 0 problems ..honestly 0
installed super repo too for my add ons and its brill working no flaws
cd112 said:
Hello All,
I wanted to see if anyone can help me out on this issue.. I have a amazon firetv running latest firmware on it. It was on Gothom running fine and i completely uninstalled gothom and did a sideload of Kodi. I installed all the repo.. When watching a show the unit has become extremly slow and it is always buffering.. Not sure if it the site or the unit and something wrong with it.. Is anyone else having this issue.
thanks once again
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Llama and Kodi?

Has anyone been able to use Kodi with Llama to get Kodi to launch from the AFTV Home Screen? I've tried every tutorial available, and followed them to a T. I can't get Kodi to launch from the Classic TV app. I uninstalled Kodi, and installed TVMC, and it works fine. Does it not work on Kodi anymore? I tried the manual way, and I also tried using ADB Fire to make it launch, and neither worked. I just picked up the AFTV today, so it's not a rootable one.

lennie paz said:
Has anyone been able to use Kodi with Llama to get Kodi to launch from the AFTV Home Screen? I've tried every tutorial available, and followed them to a T. I can't get Kodi to launch from the Classic TV app. I uninstalled Kodi, and installed TVMC, and it works fine. Does it not work on Kodi anymore? I tried the manual way, and I also tried using ADB Fire to make it launch, and neither worked. I just picked up the AFTV today, so it's not a rootable one.
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I'm sorry you had problems, but adbFire's Llama options work fine. You have the choice of using either Classic TV or Ikono TV and the ability of replacing the icon as well. If you'd like help in figuring out what went wrong, let me know. Root's not required.

jocala said:
I'm sorry you had problems, but adbFire's Llama options work fine. You have the choice of using either Classic TV or Ikono TV and the ability of replacing the icon as well. If you'd like help in figuring out what went wrong, let me know. Root's not required.
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I have another AFTV up in my living room, and everything worked fine on it. That's why I'm so confused. I ended up installing Kodi from the Amazon App Store, so now it loads from the main page.

It works for me. But is it still needed? You can install Kodi from Amazon AppStore - and the icon will show up even if you already have Kodi which will cause the installation to fail. The only caveat is that you have to use original Kodi (not SBMC or something like that).

Magnesus said:
It works for me. But is it still needed? You can install Kodi from Amazon AppStore - and the icon will show up even if you already have Kodi which will cause the installation to fail. The only caveat is that you have to use original Kodi (not SBMC or something like that).
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That's a valid question. I'm keeping the Llama process in adbFire as a backup, if nothing else, since Amazon could stop the new method in a heartbeat.

jocala said:
That's a valid question. I'm keeping the Llama process in adbFire as a backup, if nothing else, since Amazon could stop the new method in a heartbeat.
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I still can't figure out why it wasn't working. I did the EXACT steps on my other AFTV, and it worked perfectly. The AFTV that it's not working on, is brand new, purchased last week. Is there any way Amazon did something to the new ones to prevent the Llama method from working?

lennie paz said:
I still can't figure out why it wasn't working. I did the EXACT steps on my other AFTV, and it worked perfectly. The AFTV that it's not working on, is brand new, purchased last week. Is there any way Amazon did something to the new ones to prevent the Llama method from working?
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I just set up a new AFTV with Kodi/51.1.5.0_user_515030720 and the Llama process worked w/o problems. Nothing's impossible, but I really doubt Amazon has broken Llama. I don't know what happened in your case.

jocala said:
I just set up a new AFTV with Kodi/51.1.5.0_user_515030720 and the Llama process worked w/o problems. Nothing's impossible, but I really doubt Amazon has broken Llama. I don't know what happened in your case.
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I literally spent about 8 hours trying EVERY single method I found on the net. I mean, the ADBFire method, is pretty much dummy proof, and not even that would work. When I tried it manually, I picked a bunch of other apps to launch instead of Kodi, and they all launched perfectly, so I know I was doing it right. As soon as I would switch the app to launch to Kodi, it wouldn't work. What's weird about it, is I tried an older version of TVMC, and that launched fine. I tried older versions of Kodi, but they wouldn't launch.

I have exact same issue. I tried for hours to get it to work and it wont. I totally wiped my other one and it works fine. I am not sure what is going on. I am using user 51.1.5.0_user_515030720 on both with same account.

saleen22 said:
I have exact same issue. I tried for hours to get it to work and it wont. I totally wiped my other one and it works fine. I am not sure what is going on. I am using user 51.1.5.0_user_515030720 on both with same account.
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Thank god it's not just me then. How new is the AFTV that it's not working on?

lennie paz said:
Thank god it's not just me then. How new is the AFTV that it's not working on?
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Well, with multiple reports, obviously something is going on, but I can't replicate it on a new FTV with the new firmware, fresh delivered from Amazon last Saturday. Llama works fine here.
So, is anyone willing to step up and help find a fix? I need anyone with this issue to work with me trying to solve the problem, otherwise I can't resolve it.

saleen22 said:
I have exact same issue. I tried for hours to get it to work and it wont. I totally wiped my other one and it works fine. I am not sure what is going on. I am using user 51.1.5.0_user_515030720 on both with same account.
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Thank god it's not just me then. How new is the AFTV that it's not working on?
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Looks like @SaleeN is running the newest fw. If you have the same then it seems like amazon broke the llama function....I can't see why? Allow the app in their store, allow side loading of kodi, kill the llama shortcut but not the other workaround...could just be a fluke or a bug in the software
Edit--sorry I missed @jocala's last comment. Mine seems sort of redundant.

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Looks like @SaleeN is running the newest fw. If you have the same then it seems like amazon broke the llama function....I can't see why? Allow the app in their store, allow side loading of kodi, kill the llama shortcut but not the other workaround...could just be a fluke or a bug in the software
Edit--sorry I missed @jocala's last comment. Mine seems sort of redundant.
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Has anyone figured out what the problem is? I've tried for last 4 hours and get ikono app to open kodi

jilljiordano said:
Has anyone figured out what the problem is? I've tried for last 4 hours and get ikono app to open kodi
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What have you tried?
What firmware are you running?
Stick or Fire TV?

jocala said:
What have you tried?
What firmware are you running?
Stick or Fire TV?
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It's the Firetv. The furthest I got was replacing the ikono app with kodi. It just won't open up kodi. I tried manually and through abd

jilljiordano said:
It's the Firetv. The furthest I got was replacing the ikono app with kodi. It just won't open up kodi. I tried manually and through abd
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Open Llama and check the event. Did you import from USB?
Press the FTV remote menu button
Choose Import/Export Data
Import from USB Storage

jocala said:
Open Llama and check the event. Did you import from USB?
Press the FTV remote menu button
Choose Import/Export Data
Import from USB Storage
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Yes I tried that also. I tried setting llama to open both ikono and classictv and it won't. I had just finished another firetv right before this one with no problems

This is a known working Llama dataset for ikono copied from a new Fire TV running 51.1.5.0_user_515030720 firmware. Give it a try (files need to be in the /sdcard/Llama directory). Once it's loaded from USB, see if it works from within Llama by editing the event and doing test action.

I was just about to post as I was having the same problem and it seems to be an issue with one of the versions before their most recent updates. I just updated to 51.1.5.0....515030720 and now it is launching as normal. before that It would launch ikono and appear to close spmc when lama tried to execute it. Try updating your versions to the latest and see if it fixes it.

I tried for hours last night and couldnt get kodi to open with llama. Lo and behold I tried it again this morning and it worked. I'll keep in mind to do it through sd card next time to see if that way works.

Fire tv stick upgraded to 5.0.5 overnight, killed sideloaded apps

I've been running a sideloaded app for monitoring security cameras. Overnight 5.0.5 was loaded automatically. Now, the sideloaded app used for viewing will launch, but stops running within a few seconds.
Anyone know what I have to do to fix this?

Its likely an Incompatibility. Did you try to delete the apps cache and/or data?
Technically it didn't kill your app. It broke it. I have seen is upgrades break apps until the app data is cleared. And sometimes you have to wait for an app update. You can always side load another. Or use aptoide/a web browser, to get another

Nope...this new version 5.0.5 broke the sideloading into the TV stick. I tried to sideload the app again, and it no longer works. I also tried deleting the cache.
This app is on the Google Play store. This Fire TV stick just became useless to me, unless this is a bug, and not a design change so Amazon can give the middle finger to Google.
5.0.5 broke it...please tell me it did not.

Jcummins said:
Nope...this new version 5.0.5 broke the sideloading into the TV stick. I tried to sideload the app again, and it no longer works. I also tried deleting the cache.
This app is on the Google Play store. This Fire TV stick just became useless to me, unless this is a bug, and not a design change so Amazon can give the middle finger to Google.
5.0.5 broke it...please tell me it did not.
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Mine updated overnight and my sideloaded apps are still working.

Hmmmmmm.....so what's the difference between your version 5.0.5 and mine????

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Jcummins said:
Hmmmmmm.....so what's the difference between your version 5.0.5 and mine????
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Did you read Skwerl23's answer?
Sideloading is just a way to install an app via ADB. It either works or it does not work.
Like he said, it's more likely the App doesn't support Android 5.
You won't get a better answer if you don't provide some information:
Which app?
Can you still sideload the app? If not which error message do you receive?
Did you delete the apps data?
Are you using other apps?

OK....found the auto update to 5.0.5, for some reason altered the IP number of the fire stick. I fixed that in the Apps2Fire, then I successfully updated at new version of the app.
Next I went into it, it opened, then ended as before.
I then cleared cache again, and also cleared data which kill the config in the app.
I opened the app, it stayed up, but wasn't functional since the config data in the app was gone. Also, the screen display was skewed with a stretch view, wasn't as it was before.
I managed to reconfig the app, then started live view of the four cameras I have and the app ended.
The app is Alibi Witness provided by Supercircuits for monitor of their cameras.
5.0.5 definitely changed something that this app does not like.
ON EDIT: I am not using any other apps...dedicated to viewing security cameras.

Jcummins said:
OK....found the auto update to 5.0.5, for some reason altered the IP number of the fire stick. I fixed that in the Apps2Fire, then I successfully updated at new version of the app.
Next I went into it, it opened, then ended as before.
I then cleared cache again, and also cleared data which kill the config in the app.
I opened the app, it stayed up, but wasn't functional since the config data in the app was gone. Also, the screen display was skewed with a stretch view, wasn't as it was before.
I managed to reconfig the app, then started live view of the four cameras I have and the app ended.
The app is Alibi Witness provided by Supercircuits for monitor of their cameras.
5.0.5 definitely changed something that this app does not like.
ON EDIT: I am not using any other apps...dedicated to viewing security cameras.
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okay...
i don't know what's the reason it stopped working with the 5.0.5 update.
There are a huge amount of changes in Android and FireOS.
I would try the following things:
- there is a tablet version of the app ("ALIBI Witness HD: Tablet")
- factory reset of the fire TV stick
- writing a mail to the developer of the app
good luck!

Do you have firestarter app installed??? It seems to interfere with adb...I use agk fire app to sideload and even though app worked fine...it didn't transfer files nor install apks as it did before the 5.0.5 update. Once I uninstalled firestarter and restarted the fire tv stick the agk fire app worked just fine. It seems you have two issues...app from google play store not working after the update and sideloading via adb is not working. Might be related to firestarter app...

Jcummins said:
Nope...this new version 5.0.5 broke the sideloading into the TV stick. I tried to sideload the app again, and it no longer works. I also tried deleting the cache.
This app is on the Google Play store. This Fire TV stick just became useless to me, unless this is a bug, and not a design change so Amazon can give the middle finger to Google.
5.0.5 broke it...please tell me it did not.
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Download es file explorer and create FTP server,upload Kodi to downloads folder and install it.

TROJAN4EVR said:
Do you have firestarter app installed??? It seems to interfere with adb...I use agk fire app to sideload and even though app worked fine...it didn't transfer files nor install apks as it did before the 5.0.5 update. Once I uninstalled firestarter and restarted the fire tv stick the agk fire app worked just fine. It seems you have two issues...app from google play store not working after the update and sideloading via adb is not working. Might be related to firestarter app...
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I don't....I got the Apps2Fire to sideload. BUT I'm wondering now if perhaps it is damaged somehow. You are correct there is 2 problems. I fear the Web Components piece which Chrome will not support makes this Alibi Witness software unique, and have a gut feeling it's involved somehow.
I can push these apps from windows since I can get the app direct from Supercircuits, and I might do that a bit later perhaps tomorrow.

I found the same after the ota, unable to sideload & lots of apps no longer working. I ended up factory resetting and just starting over. Real pain but all now works fine, and rooted easily.
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I found the same after the ota, unable to sideload & lots of apps no longer working. I ended up factory resetting and just starting over. Real pain but all now works fine, and rooted easily.
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Well that's good to know I'm not alone. Don't have time to do that right now...but I'll do that.

Kodi addons not working on fire stick, avoid initial fire stick update

I've been using xda forums for a while now but never registered, now inevitably I have a problem.
Yesterday was asked by a friend if i could put Kodi on a firestick, never done it before but I thought what the hell I'll give it a go, read around and all easy enough. Now I have Kodi installed I've put TVaddons on there and used that to get all the usual stuff, Exodus, Phoenix, SALTS etc they work fine i.e. install and load fine all menus are there but non of them can find any sources, exodus wont even bring up TV or movie lists. like i said I've never done this before but I have Kodi working fine on my computer so thought it wouldn't be any different. I've tried clearing caches and sources, uninstalled reinstalled, downloaded exodus zip file just incase tvaddons was the problem and nothing I'm at a loose end. Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.
Side note something I may be able to help with, i read recently (on here i think) that the fire stick will auto update on initial setup to the latest OS and to avoid this so you can root or for whatever reason, rather than plugging the stick into the provided power adaptor use one you have laying around or your computer, they don't provide enough power for the stick to be able to update. Hope that helps someone out there.

Are you sure you're connected to internet?

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Are you sure you're connected to internet?
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yes I'm definitely connected to the internet haha.
just got a new fire stick and stopped the auto updates just in case it was that but still the addons don't seem to want to work my stick now running OS 5.0.5.1
everything installs fine, internet connections fine, addons go on fine they just dont work fine I'm at a loss

I installed Kodi for the first time the other day. Never used it before, still setting up. But I noticed the first few add ons I tried failed, like Exodus, All In One, DNA TV. None of them work. Figured it was me since I am new to Kodi. I figured it would be easy as installing and using them. Found TV guide. Tried 30 TV stations and none came on. I have a bunch to learn with Kodi. I have stock aftv1, lan connection. So its not just you.

I honestly don't know what was wrong with its but after what felt like a million uninstalls and re-installs i now have 2 working fire sticks with kodi running fine, don't think i will ever get to the bottom of the problem i was having the only thing i can suggest to anyone having similar issues is persistence, just keep reinstalling and eventually it seems to work, the only thing i can possibly think of is my internet connection has been playing up recently so maybe during the set up it disconnected and reconnected without me even noticing and messed up the setup other than that i have no idea.

Basically, Kodi isn't an organization which offers hardware at any level. It is an open source program or project, a group of volunteers who are committed to building a cool video player for various computers and mobile phones on such a large number of stages. It is basically planned to be utilized for video documents put away on your PC. It additionally empowers you to utilize additional items; these are straightforward contents which give you access to a wide range of content online. There are multiple solutions to fix this error.
Solution 1: Updating Graphics Card Drivers and installing DirectX.
Solution 2: Tweaking Kodi itself.
Solution 3: Installing Add-ons manually instead of Builds.
Solution 4: Clearing add-on cache. Solution 5: Using a VPN.
Here is the source link https://appuals.com/fix-kodi-not-working/ to follow and get the detail of each solution.