I am trying to tinker around with some DLNA playback.. And not having it work..
I installed uPnP inspector, on my desktop.. Both my devices are right there.. But youtube has no 'cast to' icon which I thought it was supposed to have if DLNA was activated. I have a few other DLNA comnpatible players who also dont seem to be picking up any of my FireTvs
Do I need to add a DLNA client to (each of) the box or should this work by default ??
PlayTo is a good app for sending videos. An alternative that I prefer is Pushbullet. If you have XBMC/Kodi installed, install the Pushbullt addon and authorize it. It uses your Gmail account to send all files to your devices. You use your Gmail to log in also. After installing the addon, go to your program addons and edit the setting of the Pushbullet addon. You will want to set it to interrupt or media will not play til other media has stopped, and you will want to set it to play everything immediatly. I prefer Pushbullet over DLNA, cause you do not have to be worried about being connected to the same network. You can send several differnt types of things with Pushbullet, you can even send browser urls, which means if you are watching a video on one of your devices, you send the url to Kodi and the video will play on the Fire TV. Does not work for all video site, but it works for a lot of sites. BTW, you can find the pushbullet addon in services on Kodi, and it creates a UI in the program addons. So go to Setting, Addons, Get addons, All, Services and you will find it there.
porkenhimer said:
PlayTo is a good app for sending videos. An alternative that I prefer is Pushbullet. If you have XBMC/Kodi installed, install the Pushbullt addon and authorize it. It uses your Gmail account to send all files to your devices. You use your Gmail to log in also. After installing the addon, go to your program addons and edit the setting of the Pushbullet addon. You will want to set it to interrupt or media will not play til other media has stopped, and you will want to set it to play everything immediatly. I prefer Pushbullet over DLNA, cause you do not have to be worried about being connected to the same network. You can send several differnt types of things with Pushbullet, you can even send browser urls, which means if you are watching a video on one of your devices, you send the url to Kodi and the video will play on the Fire TV. Does not work for all video site, but it works for a lot of sites. BTW, you can find the pushbullet addon in services on Kodi, and it creates a UI in the program addons. So go to Setting, Addons, Get addons, All, Services and you will find it there.
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I will give it a look but I am specifically trying to get DNLA working for a few video apps that should 'see' my boxes easily.. Popcorn time should give me a watch to button from my phone tablet or ipad..
Theres a spread of these.. iPlayer.. Etc.. Not all being inside kodi..
Really I just want a chromecast app.. but filing that DLNA should be the same.. Just it says DNLA is already built in, but my boxes while visible on the network, are not generating a watch to output location on any dlna enabled apps.
I told you that you need an app to send from your phone and I also told you that XBMC/Kodi was a good reciever app to recieve media. Also, Popcorn Time has a setting to use external players to send media to other devices. Just look in the list of players and install one. I recommend installing Playto and Wondershare player on you Android device to use as a sender, and simply using XBMC/Kodi on your Fire TV as the reciever. There is a setting in Kodi to turn on UPNP, turn it on and when you play videos in Wondershare or Playto on your Android device it will let you send the media to Kodi on your Fire TV. Playto is good for sending media, cause any app that has a share button can be shared with Playto and used to send videos etc. Say you are using the youtube app and wanna send a video to your Fire TV, click the share button, pick Playto, and when the video starts playing click the yellow play button and it will start playing on your Fire TV through Kodi. Of course you need an app to communicate with other devices, cause the device cannot do it on its own. Example, you have wifi, but how are you supposed to connect if there isn't a settings app to show you connections? Your device has DLNA/UPNP, but how can you use it without an app telling you where to send and recieve content? There has to be software to run the hardware. Think of it like a car, if you put it in drive where is it gonna go without the driver? The driver is the software the car is the hardware.
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my wife would like to connect to my music library. is it possible to add her gmail/google account to my google music library. basically, i would like both our phones to connect to the same music library through google music. it would a lot easier if we only need to manage one library on one home computer. is that possible?
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my wife would like to connect to my music library. is it possible to add her gmail/google account to my google music library. basically, i would like both our phones to connect to the same music library through google music. it would a lot easier if we only need to manage one library on one home computer. is that possible?
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While I have not tested this, I know when you open the music app for the first time it asks you to select an existing account or add another. You could try adding yours on her phone via this method and see what happens. Keep in mind though that you can only stream from one device at a time.
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While I have not tested this, I know when you open the music app for the first time it asks you to select an existing account or add another. You could try adding yours on her phone via this method and see what happens. Keep in mind though that you can only stream from one device at a time.
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yep. this worked. i didn't think of just adding my account to her phone's music player
was wondering if Pushbullet had the ability to push notifications to a FireTV, I installed the app fine from the play store using market enabler, but there is no notifcaion option to enable (even after installing settings.apk) there is no android notification API on the FireTV, but I DO know that the FireTV supports toast notifications. Is there anything I can do to push my phone notifications to my Rooted / Kodi'd FireTV? It doesn't have to be pushbullet
GOT IT.
Install Pushbullet on your Android PHONE
Install "Notifications for Fire TV" on your PHONE HERE:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.cyberdream.firenotifications.google&hl=en (additional in-app purchase may be required)
From FIRE TV: go to Amazon App Store and install "Notifications for Fire TV"
once everything is set up if you push a image or link from pushbullet, if it appears on your phone.., you will see that It will also show up on the Fire TV!
If you have XBMC/Kodi installed just install the Pushbullet addon and all you notifications will be displayed inside XBMC/Kodi. If you install the Pushbullet addon for XBMC/Kodi make sure you go to your program addons and edit the Pushbullet setting. Set it to interupt or media will not start playing til other media has stopped, also set media to play instantly. To recieve your Android notifications there is no setup inside XBMC/Kodi, it does it automatically if the Pushbullet app on your phone is set to push mobile notifications. You can also set the amount of time that you want the noticfications to be displayed on the screen. The Pushbullet addon for XBMC/Kodi is a requirement for me. Probably the best addon of the past year.
The Airplay apps for the AFTV are all unreliable. Is there an alternate method I can use to send video from my iphone or macbook laptop to the AFTV? Airplay is the only reason I continue to own an AppleTV. I'd like to get rid of it if I can only find a way to send video.
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Joe
Pushbullet. Install Pushbullet on you phone, tablet or PC. It can be installed on PCs by an app or by using Firefox, Chrome etc extentions. Then install the Pushbullet addon inside Kodi. Its a service addon, but it creates an interface within the program addons. After installing the Pushbulllet addon in Kodi, find Pushbullet in the program addons and go to its settings and set it to interrupt and also set it to play instantly, cause if you do not the content you send from your device will not start playing until other media has finished playing. The best part is that you do not have to be on the same connection cause everything is sent by using your Gmail account. Just log into Pushbullet using Gmail and every device you have Pushbullet installed on will be connected. You can send things to one device or multiple devices at the same time. You can even send inbrowser videos from most sites. Lets say you are on your phone or tablet and wanna send a video from a site you are on, just click share and pick to share it with pushbullet and the video on that page will start playing inside Kodi on your Fire TV. Does not work on all sites, but most. If you have the firfox extention installed on your PC you can do the same, when you wanna send a browser video just click the Pushbullet icon and send it to Kodi. You can also set the Pushbullet up so that when you get notifications on your devices that they will show inside Kodi. If you choose to do that you will have to edit the settings inside the Pushbullet addon in Kodi cause you can pick the default amount of time that the notifications show, and I think the default only shows them for a second or two, but you can make them show for a lot longer.
Okay, I am lazy so I cut and pasted my review on Amazon about their video app not working on my Note 8.0.
So here we go!
UPDATE! I figured out how to properly install the app without any issues... boy Amazon screwed the pooch with making all standalone compnents rely on underground authentication. Seems that Kindle is the main culprit, so this is my fix.
Remove kindle app and do a fresh install of underground. Then on a pc login to your account and remove your previous android device or all of them as every time you start clean with a new login you create a new device. I had 8 of them! Geezo! Then go a head and install the video app. Once done contact amazon and have them transfer your prime subscription over to a new amazon account for your prime videos. Once the new account is made with prime, start the video app and select other account. Login to your new account with prime, and your done. If you already logged in with the old account, log out and login again with the prime account.
To use kindle don't... I really really mean it. DONT USE PLAY STORE! Download the Amazon version of Kindle or the Samsung version from Samsung. They are both the same version, just samsung has a white background with free monthly books. Login to kindle with your kindle account. This way you have segregated kindle from video authentication.
The Google version as it is released in a higher version than the others, and breaks the video app. Once the video app is broken you must uninstall kindle and the video app, cross fingers and reinstall video app. If the app fails then uninstall video app and underground. Then install underground and video app. Geezo! Yes it is a crummy app if you have kindle already installed, if you don't then it seems to load and run just fine from the get go.
Had to uninstall because I was cleaning up for more space and to reset all my accounts along with Google Ads ID. Once I reinstalled the app fails when the red circle starts. So I am SOL with my prime subscription, as I only have a tablet to use the app. I think the developer sets some policies that are not cleared when the app is removed, and when the app is reinstalled it gets hosed. What really sucks is the lack of support to assist, as they expect the app to allow you to get into settings.
I got this box last week it's loaded with Android 10.0 It's connected to the internet Via ethernet and it works for the most part but I can not log into the play store I can't log into google to check my mail after a long pause I get a message something went wrong. for some reason something is blocking logging into anything google. I have all the permission I can find toggled to on for anything related to google and still no luck looking for a life line the box is pretty useless with out adding the app's I want. thank you in advance.
I have the same problem.
T95 Android tv box google play issue " Work around"
I had the same problem with this play store on this android box . My work around I found a website that has older apk's like gmail and the other apps i would normally use , I would use my laptop or cell phone to down load the apps I wanted I even was able to install Kodi 18.9 leia The aptoid app store. Also you can find older app versions of most of your Google full playstore apps yes that includes your Gmail app Step 1 to use this work around you will need a usb drive to copy the files from your laptop computer or desk top to then step 2 go to your files folder after you plugin your Usb drive on your T-95 android box and open your Usb drive find your files you copied from your laptop or desktop and install them, This box is great for zoom meetings too after you have Zoom installed on it all you have to do is plugin your web cam with a microphone and it shoulkd work. enjoy hope this was helpful to you
[email protected];82409003]I got this box last week it's loaded with Android 10.0 It's connected to the internet Via ethernet and it works for the most part but I can not log into the play store I can't log into google to check my mail after a long pause I get a message something went wrong. for some reason something is blocking logging into anything google. I have all the permission I can find toggled to on for anything related to google and still no luck looking for a life line the box is pretty useless with out adding the app's I want. thank you in advance. [/QUOTE]