Hi,
I have a Fire TV stick and everything works great so far. However, I sideloaded an app, it launches ok and looks functioning, except I have no way of controlling it. I need to be able to move the (invisible) pointer to make some selections. I tried the Fire TV remote app on my N5, it seems to be able to send commands, but without a visible pointer, I can't make the right selection. Is there anyway to make the pointer visible on screen? Or anything I could solve this problem?
Thank you!
OK, after a bit researching, found a working solution with WuKong remote app. The little monkey does work!
namartlu said:
OK, after a bit researching, found a working solution with WuKong remote app. The little monkey does work!
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hi namartlu,
Can you elaborate on what you did to get wukong to work? i don't speak chinese ( i think thats the language) and the google translation sucks. I gedt the feeling you have to turn debug on and load something with the assistant application? any help is appreciated.
jrosaly said:
hi namartlu,
Can you elaborate on what you did to get wukong to work? i don't speak chinese ( i think thats the language) and the google translation sucks. I gedt the feeling you have to turn debug on and load something with the assistant application? any help is appreciated.
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I installed WuKong TV Remote Control from Play Store on my phone. And then, you need to sideload the WuKong helper app on the Fire TV (I hope you know how to sideload). The WuKong helper app is this one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wukongtv.wkhelper I just installed it on my phone also, and then use ES Explorer to back it up as an apk file. Copy that to the PC where you can sideload to the Fire TV. I later deleted the helper app from my phone (don't need it there).
Once that's done, you open up the remote app on the phone and the FireTV will show up, choose that to connect to it. And then use "Mouse" mode on the remote app.
I hope that's clear enough?
namartlu said:
OK, after a bit researching, found a working solution with WuKong remote app. The little monkey does work!
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namartlu said:
I installed WuKong TV Remote Control from Play Store on my phone. And then, you need to sideload the WuKong helper app on the Fire TV (I hope you know how to sideload). The WuKong helper app is this one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wukongtv.wkhelper I just installed it on my phone also, and then use ES Explorer to back it up as an apk file. Copy that to the PC where you can sideload to the Fire TV. I later deleted the helper app from my phone (don't need it there).
Once that's done, you open up the remote app on the phone and the FireTV will show up, choose that to connect to it. And then use "Mouse" mode on the remote app.
I hope that's clear enough?
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thanks a lot
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Posting in the Apps section, hoping this will get some visibility.
I am anxious to find a version of Spotify that will work. I tried the standard version from the the Play store and also the tablet version for the Kindle Fire, but both launch to wrong orientation (sideways) and the remote doesn't work to move around the menu buttons.
Opening this thread up for continued development discussion on this.
There's some apps that fix the orientation problem, and you can try a mouse to navigate if the remote doesn't, i'm not a the house right now so I cant try it, i will try it later.
Fixed the orientation issue. It takes decompiling the APK (used apktool for that) then removing any android:screenOrientation="portrait" attributes from the AndroidManifest.xml file. For good measure, I also commented out any calls to setOrientation(I)V in the smali files (not sure that's required for the Spofity app, but found I needed to do disable setRequestedOrientation(I)V in other apps for the FireTV)
Unfortunately, apktool doesn't want to recompile the Spotify resources cleanly for the builds I was using, but read through the errors it throws and just clean up the offending lines. I used an attached keyboard/mouse to login, but now I just use the Amazon remote to click through things on my playlists (on some of the screens, it helps to push the the left before scrolling up or down). If you hit the search box, the on screen keyboard shows up... so while it's not ideal, you can get by with the standard remote.
I've posted a build if you want to try it out:
ht tp://d-h.st/Lel
you can try an app like this for the orientation
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.fameit.rotate
Ruinerror said:
I've posted a build if you want to try it out:
ht tp://d-h.st/Lel
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Worked great. Thanks so much!
Spotify is now listed as "coming later this year" on the Fire TV product page.
Spotify working in AFTV?
markgriffioen said:
Worked great. Thanks so much!
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I sideloaded it and it does play music, but the AFTV remote only manages to play and pause. I cannot scroll up or down or move in any direction, that I have to do with a USB keyboard.
Did you get the AFTV remote to work properly with spotify?
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I sideloaded it and it does play music, but the AFTV remote only manages to play and pause. I cannot scroll up or down or move in any direction, that I have to do with a USB keyboard.
Did you get the AFTV remote to work properly with spotify?
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Works fine for me, can scroll through playlist although you can't open the sidebar. I don't mind much as I only need to open it on my AFTV and then I use spotify connect to play stuff on it from my Tablet/Phone.
can't use the remote
Hi,
I installed your APK, and the app runs, however i ams suck at the first screen and can't log in, as the fire tv remote does not do anything. Am I doing something wrong?
any help welcome, cheers!
jobespierre said:
Hi,
I installed your APK, and the app runs, however i ams suck at the first screen and can't log in, as the fire tv remote does not do anything. Am I doing something wrong?
any help welcome, cheers!
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meanwhile thete us a spotify app available from amazon for the fire tv. just lookbunder new apps in the ftv home.
Is the US version also only a Spotfiy Connect app?
APK file
kindly, could someone add the spotify APK file, so that i can use spotify in ther normal version (not remote one) thanks a lot.
Starting this thread to hopefully gather some steam for getting the TWC TV app working via sideload on the Fire TV and Fire TV Stick.
I've tried loading the most recent hacked version for Android, which was suppose to ignore the ADB request and also let you use the app away from home. It DOES sideload, but immediately alerts you that it's out of date. Then it takes you to the Amazon App store, and shows you the updated version of the app, but then says it's not compatible with the device.
I wondered if the version available for the Kindle Fire tablets is more compatible, but can't find the apk anywhere to test it.
I've also read it IS possible to sideload (not sure of what version) but requires root in order to use a keyboard/mouse (or emulator). That info was prior to the stick being offered AND the Fire TV Remote app being available. So I wonder if there's a way to use the keyboard option in the remote app instead of a USB mouse/keyboard IF we could get a working version of the app sideloaded at all?
Feel free to comment with other obstacles/possibilities/experiences. All the info I've found via MANY searches so far relating to this app and the AFTV specifically is spread among MANY different pages and threads - so I'm hoping we can at least aggregate that info here and save fellow AFTV users some trouble. Thanks in advance!
itbedave said:
Starting this thread to hopefully gather some steam for getting the TWC TV app working via sideload on the Fire TV and Fire TV Stick.
I've tried loading the most recent hacked version for Android, which was suppose to ignore the ADB request and also let you use the app away from home. It DOES sideload, but immediately alerts you that it's out of date. Then it takes you to the Amazon App store, and shows you the updated version of the app, but then says it's not compatible with the device.
I wondered if the version available for the Kindle Fire tablets is more compatible, but can't find the apk anywhere to test it.
I've also read it IS possible to sideload (not sure of what version) but requires root in order to use a keyboard/mouse (or emulator). That info was prior to the stick being offered AND the Fire TV Remote app being available. So I wonder if there's a way to use the keyboard option in the remote app instead of a USB mouse/keyboard IF we could get a working version of the app sideloaded at all?
Feel free to comment with other obstacles/possibilities/experiences. All the info I've found via MANY searches so far relating to this app and the AFTV specifically is spread among MANY different pages and threads - so I'm hoping we can at least aggregate that info here and save fellow AFTV users some trouble. Thanks in advance!
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I'd love to be able to sideload the time warner app, if you get any info about this let me know.
is the latest version 3.6.6.6 . I just installed via aptoide market store and it goes to login screen no probs. I have aptoide installed on my fire tv
Latest version works for me after side loading. I use an air mouse for navigation.
bradwatson said:
Latest version works for me after side loading. I use an air mouse for navigation.
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is the air mouse an app or a real mouse? trying to figure out how to navigate.
xQuestx said:
is the air mouse an app or a real mouse? trying to figure out how to navigate.
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F10 mele pro remote.
xQuestx said:
is the air mouse an app or a real mouse? trying to figure out how to navigate.
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Hey XQuest, would you mind elaboratinhg a bit on the integration with the FireTV, particularly with the TWC app? Also since you have it working, does the twc app output in dolby digital? thanks for your help
Buy this Airmouse, it works perfectly and is my primary remote now. Works perfect with the Twc app just that I also can't get the away from home to work.
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=261674186045&alt=web
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Thanks for the suggestion, awesome. Do you know if the twc app on fire tv will put out dolby digital?
ok so side loading works and app runs so far. im using the wukong remote app. its pretty awesome. I figured out how to get around and play on demand content, but live tv is another story, i can't seem to get the channels to scroll, i can click on the last channel on the bottom and it switches to that channel and then repeat to move the list until i get to the channel i want, but i cant scroll the list to get to the channel i want. any ideas?
jrosaly said:
ok so side loading works and app runs so far. im using the wukong remote app. its pretty awesome. I figured out how to get around and play on demand content, but live tv is another story, i can't seem to get the channels to scroll, i can click on the last channel on the bottom and it switches to that channel and then repeat to move the list until i get to the channel i want, but i cant scroll the list to get to the channel i want. any ideas?
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I would like to know how to get scrolling to work also. I wish TWC would get this app working for Fire TV. If it can work for Roku, it shouldn't be that much for them to make it work on the Fire TV. The channels that show on the one page stream great.
You can scroll using a remote. That has mouse and a left click button.
Wukong remote's mouse or trackpad function does not behave the same as using an actual mouse (don't know about the remotes/keyboard/trackpad combos). When you use wukong, it shows an actual mouse pointer (traditional style), when you use an actual mouse, a yellowish circle shows up and it allows you to click and drag, best way I can describe it is that it mimics a finger tip.
It would be cool if wukong emulated this mode, but I don't know how to reach out to the developer, since its pretty obvious he's a native asian language speaker. I will say that the festure that allows you to launch any app on your firetv directly from the wukong app is awesome. My room mate thinks I'm crazy having 3 or 4 different devices to control my fire tv
anyone care to kinda give me a little bit of training as to how to remove all the checks like vpn, adb, etc. I had a working version which I could use over vpn, but now everytime I launch the app it tells me that I have to upgrade to continue. I imagine you have to decompile the code and modify code, which even though I'm not a programmer, I feel pretty confortable doing with my college programming classes. Any help or pointers is appreciated. Or if someone has the latest working version even better. Thanks.
Hey there everyone,
I was wondering if there was a way to place a shortcut for the Kodi app on my FireTv desktop? I've been searching but cant find out.
usaljones said:
Hey there everyone,
I was wondering if there was a way to place a shortcut for the Kodi app on my FireTv desktop? I've been searching but cant find out.
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Try this worked for me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/general/fire-tv-stick-kodi-home-screen-hacks-t3047893
Thanks
Just install Dock4Droid and you can open Kodi from anywhere.
porkenhimer said:
Just install Dock4Droid and you can open Kodi from anywhere.
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Anyway to use dock 4 droid with out a mouse\keyboard?
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Anyway to use dock 4 droid with out a mouse\keyboard?
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No, but if you have a remote app like wukong remote on you cellphone you can use it as a mouse. I actually prefer wukong remote to all the other remote apps. I rarely use remote apps, but if I do I use wukong remote. You can use wukong as a fire TV remote, keyboard and mouse.
Here are several methods: http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-laun...-sideloaded-apps-from-the-fire-tv-homescreen/
I am trying to use my firestick to cut cable cost some. And I was told that the Charter app lets me view all of my content, unfortunately on the amazon store I can download to android devices besides my fire stick. Is there a way around this..?
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I am trying to use my firestick to cut cable cost some. And I was told that the Charter app lets me view all of my content, unfortunately on the amazon store I can download to android devices besides my fire stick. Is there a way around this..?
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did you ever get this to work?
mejdam said:
did you ever get this to work?
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I used this to install a variety of apps to my Fire TV Stick.
sideloadfiretv dotcom
Has anyone got this to work. Side loaded on rooted Fire TV gen 1, get error code C117 when trying to watch video. Charter boxes have been down for a day now. Watching on tablets is only option right now.
Playstore app to apk converter & copy playstore links (Google search)
Download spectrum TV apk
Firetv/Fire TV Sticks:
Sideload
(Google hint: adb fire -pc- or app 2 fire -Android app-)
Install:
Mouse toggle apk
Spectrum tv apk
Android tv & Android Boxes:
Place apk on flash drive
Plug in
Get file manager
Navigate to USB drive install apk
Use mouse (USB) or get remote with mouse
A little annoying to use but works
Shield should be the same
But if you have the full playstore
Can someone get a root file manager
Copy the base apk for stectrum tv app for the shield
I want to test it on a firestick and see if it fixes the landscape issue when picking channels
Use ultimate rotation app to fix landscape problem.
Noob here - Can't get remote control of Kodi
Recently bought an amazon fie stick, installed KODI 15...
I can use the remote that came with the fire stick but I want to use my android tablet.. I downloaded the app from the play store but when I run it, it doesn't recognize any kind of device...
Please help
maynard64 said:
Recently bought an amazon fie stick, installed KODI 15...
I can use the remote that came with the fire stick but I want to use my android tablet.. I downloaded the app from the play store but when I run it, it doesn't recognize any kind of device...
Please help
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Which app?
KLit75 said:
Which app?
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Amazon Fire TV Remote App amazon.com/Amazon-Fire-TV-Remote-App/dp/B00ODIASKC
To clarify... I'm trying to control Kodi from my tablet
Unfortunately I don't think you can control kodi with that. You should try Yatse. Its way better IMHO.