Hey all
I'm having some issues with both my fire TV and fire TV stick. I've installed kodi, plus genesis and a few other add ons on each and changed the skin (aeon nox silvo on stick and titan on fire TV gen1), updated the library with some of my favourite shows and over time it seems to be getting slower and slower, particularly when I try to add a new repo, along with freezing during startup updates if I'm trying to do something at the same time, eg. Watch a TV show.
I wondered if anyone else had been having any similar problems? And whether there was any possible fixes?
Thanks all
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Hi all.
I've played with XBMC a little in the past but nothing too in depth. When I saw the Fire TV come out I ordered day one. My main goal is to completely replace all my Windows Media Center machines and switch to XBMC + Fire TV for each location in my house. The reason for this change is I believe that it will be easier to add-on a few features i've been missing with my WMC setup.
So far ive loaded XBMC and configured it. I repurposed a WMC to be my TV/DVR server in the basement using PVR.WMC. I found a few tricks and this is now functioning as my whole house DVR.
My main issues that need addressing are as follows:
Add "Fire TV" apps to XBMC main menu (Amazon Prime movies, Netflix, and Pandora)
Remote Music Channels from the PVR menu in PVC.WMC
BluRay playback
I have all my DVDs/BRs stored in ISO format on a NAS in my basement. DVDs are fine. BR is a challenge. Am I better off converting to MKV? Does anyone know a way to make a library that is also shared with PLEX?
According to this wiki
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Amazon_Fire_TV
It is possible to add android apps to the xbmc menu if you are using Gotham. I tried doing it and as soon as I went to android application xbmc 13 final just crashes to the fire TV main menu.
nba1341 said:
According to this wiki
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Amazon_Fire_TV
It is possible to add android apps to the xbmc menu if you are using Gotham. I tried doing it and as soon as I went to android application xbmc 13 final just crashes to the fire TV main menu.
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im having the same issue. it would be a perfect box for me iff i can load the streaming services that are built in (netflix, amazon prime, hulu, pandora) from XBMC.
personally i can skip the entire Fire TV menu and live in XBMC if i can load the very nice a pretty customized fire tv apps from XBMC. kinda like using XBMC as a launcher
KCHASE731 said:
im having the same issue. it would be a perfect box for me iff i can load the streaming services that are built in (netflix, amazon prime, hulu, pandora) from XBMC.
personally i can skip the entire Fire TV menu and live in XBMC if i can load the very nice a pretty customized fire tv apps from XBMC. kinda like using XBMC as a launcher
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Wonder if it's just a problem with the final version. I am running a older version and I am able to load android apps just fine.
ahoslc said:
Wonder if it's just a problem with the final version. I am running a older version and I am able to load android apps just fine.
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What version are you running? are you able to load the Fire TV versions of the apps from XBMC?
ahoslc said:
Wonder if it's just a problem with the final version. I am running a older version and I am able to load android apps just fine.
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I will have to check when I go home it's like a week or 2 old. I can launch all the apps except for Amazon Prime.
i am rooted and have the latest software up and running. i have kodi installed and all set up.
i would like to get rid of as much amazon crapware as possible. i don't want to offend any amazon lovers, its just the only reason i bought this device is to run xmbc (kodi) better than i was on my apple tv. so far i like it a lot better.
i would love to have it boot into a screen with two icons, netflix and xmbc. is this what you would call a Launcher? is the best one for what I'm after here? do you recommend anything else? maybe with some screen shots?
Thanks guys, Cody
Yes, you can do that. You can either do it with the launcher you linked (pretty much makes xbmc the central hub of the fire tv) or this, which I prefer:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2782307
With that launcher you can just show xbmc and netflix and quickly boot into either. Or with the xbmc launcher you can create a shortcut to netflix from within xbmc.
Hi ive just installed xbmc for amazon fire tv. Just wondered if there is away to add apk files inside xbmc. Rather than on sidebar? Also tried adding live tv as it worked well on pc. No success on amazon fire tv yet. Many thanks
I've got IPTV based LIVE TV working on XBMC without a problem, so I'm betting it works.
May i ask how you did it please. Because the way i did it via px wouldnt work on amazon fire tv.
ok i had the fire tv first gen which i sold, the issue i had was that bbc iplayer and other apps would freeze/not buffer until i disconneced kodi/plex often i had to restart for it to work. is this still the case with fire tv 2?
can i put kodi on the homescreen??? ive read that llama doesnt work?
can the amazon fire tv be rooted/jailbroken, any benefits of this
does amazon fire tv 2 have infrared?
can amazon fire tv 2 autoboot to kodi? and if i want to go back to normal apps is that possible i.e. bbc iplayer
i dont use amazon content at all!!
thank you
You can autoboot to Kodi or even better launch it with the home button courtesy of Firestarter. Forget about Llama.
Get this app first:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2786505
And load this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/themes-apps/app-root-home-launcher-replacement-app-t3118135
Then get Kodi:
http://kodi.tv
I recommend going straight to the 16 Alpha:
http://kodi.tv/kodi-16-0-alpha-4-jarvis-nearing-completion/
It's all very straight forward.
what about any other issues? is playback smooth faster then the original
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what about any other issues? is playback smooth faster then the original
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It's much improved. Plays everything I've thrown at it.
Navigation is slightly slower with the new remote. There are some outstanding surround sound issues that Amazon has promised to fix.
thanks guys
still waiting delivery i hope there is no buffering/freezing issue if i open two video apps
I have 4 different implementations of Kodi. 1 on a gbox, one on my PC and then 2 fire sticks (5.0.5.1). All of them are set up identically - Kodi 16.1 + Exodus 1.3.2 + real-debrid.
I have noticed that the fire stick set-ups show much fewer available streams than my PC and gbox set-up. I discovered this because one show (Cosmos, Carl Sagan - I'm a dork) has no streams available on either of the fire sticks but when I pull it up on my PC or gbox, there are over 50 streams listed, 10 of them are real-debrid.
What is it about the fire stick that would block streams where other platforms do not?
I stumbled onto my own solution quite by accident. It turns out that for whatever reason the Kodi installs on fire stick do not automatically include the URLResolver add-on. I found a .zip online, pushed it using adbFire and installed it from Kodi ("install from .zip file" option) but I'm guessing this thing resides on a repo somewhere and could also be installed that way.
BE SURE TO RESTART KODI AFTER YOU INSTALL THE ADD-ON.
(I restarted the whole fire stick but just Kodi will probably be enough.)
Im having the same problem but am unsure how to add a URLresolver, can you explain as im new to this and havnt a clue!
Hmm interesting, I will try this
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