We have a number of movies on Google Play Movies that we'd like to watch on our Fire TV Stick. We've tried the YouTube app, but whenever we try to watch videos in the Purchased tab, they just buffer indefinitely. Other content plays just fine, and using the Chromecast works for playing purchased videos, but I would rather use the Fire TV. Has anyone else had this issue? And did you figure out a solution?
Thanks!
- Dave
Hi there, did you ever find a solution to this? I would be interested to know this too. (In my case the Google Play Movies do not buffer, they just through an error when I try to watch them using the YouTube app on the Fire TV).
Nope, no solution for this, although I haven't tried recently. Although now that Amazon is part of Disney Anywhere (our 4-year-old dictates most of our movie watching these days), it's less of an issue than it was before.
Okay, too bad. I am not sure Amazon Germany is part of Disney Anywhere. Annoying as I am in the same boat as you, our 3 year old dictates our movie watching and so I have quite a few Disney movies on Google Play...
In case you are interested it works. Without rooting. I followed most of what was mentioned here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-3SWSD232U
I did not install 1Mobile though as I have no use for that, neither did I install the remote app mentioned in the video. I only went through the initial instructions about installing play services, account manager, play store. Then I updated the play store as mentioned. And finally I installed YouTube and Google Play Movies.
The first time I launched Play Movies it asked me to log in. And then I was able to access my library of purchased movies and watch them. It even started them from where I last left off on other devices.
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In case you are interested it works. Without rooting. I followed most of what was mentioned here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-3SWSD232U
I did not install 1Mobile though as I have no use for that, neither did I install the remote app mentioned in the video. I only went through the initial instructions about installing play services, account manager, play store. Then I updated the play store as mentioned. And finally I installed YouTube and Google Play Movies.
The first time I launched Play Movies it asked me to log in. And then I was able to access my library of purchased movies and watch them. It even started them from where I last left off on other devices.
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Where did you get the APK for play movies? I am trying to install this on my Fire TV Stick, but the only version that installs without error is the version for Android TV, which won't even launch on the Fire Stick (my source is apkmirror.com).
Took me awhile, but got this working. Followed that YouTube video exactly, including getting the Wukong Remote app to control the mouse. You can either load Google Play Movies via the 1Mobile app on the video, or else I'm guessing you can also get it on your phone and use an app like AGKFire, or use ADBFire?
Make sure you follow the instructions in the order he installs the different APK's. Good luck.
Success, with some modifications. First, I was unable to click on some of the links to install, perhaps because the trackpad is an essential step. I have no trackpad. Instead, I downloaded those apps to my cell phone and used ES File Explorer to Send the files to the stick. I was still unable to navigate the 1Market app and even had to use the send method to get Google Play Movies, which was my whole point in doing all of this.
With Google Play Movies is installed, it would only play a single movie on my account from where I left off; I was initially unable to navigate the app from the Fire Stick remote to browse my library. I am now able to control the app using a helper app, Remote Mouse for Fire TV, I found out about here: http://www.aftvnews.com/remote-mouse-app-released-for-fire-tv-fire-tv-stick/ and which can be purchased from the Amazon app store, one time, for both the stick and the phone that I am using to remote-control the stick. Initially I thought even this wasn't working, but switching this Remote Mouse app from remote mode to mouse mode did the trick.
In hindsight, now that I know about the remote mouse app (which I had to pay a couple bucks for) it might have worked in place of the trackpad and I probably could have avoided the send file workaround.
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Success, with some modifications. First, I was unable to click on some of the links to install, perhaps because the trackpad is an essential step. I have no trackpad. Instead, I downloaded those apps to my cell phone and used ES File Explorer to Send the files to the stick. I was still unable to navigate the 1Market app and even had to use the send method to get Google Play Movies, which was my whole point in doing all of this.
With Google Play Movies is installed, it would only play a single movie on my account from where I left off; I was initially unable to navigate the app from the Fire Stick remote to browse my library. I am now able to control the app using a helper app, Remote Mouse for Fire TV, I found out about here: http://www.aftvnews.com/remote-mouse-app-released-for-fire-tv-fire-tv-stick/ and which can be purchased from the Amazon app store, one time, for both the stick and the phone that I am using to remote-control the stick. Initially I thought even this wasn't working, but switching this Remote Mouse app from remote mode to mouse mode did the trick.
In hindsight, now that I know about the remote mouse app (which I had to pay a couple bucks for) it might have worked in place of the trackpad and I probably could have avoided the send file workaround.
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with the latest ROM for the fire tv, its not possible to install the get the google play movies to work.
I had issues with following that YouTube video. In order to download the various Google apps (Services etc al) I clicked on the link and then, in the more menu of ES File Manager clicked on Open in Browser which then kicked off the download. This suggests that the steps are version specific with the file manager behaving differently plus I had an issue with getting YouTube installed. YouTube has grown so much that you have to identify an apk so I downloaded the version shown in the video. In fact I gave up on ES File Manager and side loaded apps using Apps2Fire. This also removes the need to install 1Mobile.
Wukong did not work for me as it did not recognise mouse clicks and has been replaced with another app. So I grabbed hold of Remote Mouse for Fire TV which works like a charm.
I downloaded and installed all the programs and opened the Google play app. It seems to do nothing though, what did I do wrong?
Easiest work around is to play it on your phone and mirror the screen to your firestick. Works perfectly for me.
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Easiest work around is to play it on your phone and mirror the screen to your firestick. Works perfectly for me.
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what's the best way to mirror from Android to the stick?
It seems watching Google Play Movies on an Amazon Fire TV is much simpler now. Just use the official Silk Browser app from the Amazon app store, and sign in at play.google.com.
When you go to your library, you will be taken to YouTube to play your videos. Just make sure you are signed in there too.
Anyone know if the BTN2GO (Big Ten Network) app can be sideloaded onto the Fire TV Stick? They have the app for Android and Chromecast but haven't published it to the Amazon App Store and since I don't have Cable, I can't watch my team play football.
Thanks.
Just in case anyone has any ideas... I installed the app using the APK from my phone and it opens fine. However, I can't navigate well with the remote to be able to sign in or anything. Anyone ever tried this and gotten it to work well?
BTN2GO fail
I have tried 5 different versions of the BTN2GO app (phone and tablet) and all have either had your experience or have asked for location services to be enabled, meaning that it is not looking for the information that is already in the AFTV settings and there is no way that I have found to enable them for this app. Even tried settings.apk but when I tried to enable the location services in it, it just kicked me out to the main screen. Hopefully this is supported by next football season...
In the meantime, Playstation Vue has BTN (and a ton of others) for the $45/mo contract and has an official Fire TV app.
GBR!
Big Ten - GO!
I was able to I install the app using the APK from my phone and then I installed the Mouse Toggle for Fire TV from PlayStore for $2.99. Super easy install and setup. I then used the Mouse to maneuver around and signed into my Xfinity account.
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I was able to I install the app using the APK from my phone and then I installed the Mouse Toggle for Fire TV from PlayStore for $2.99. Super easy install and setup. I then used the Mouse to maneuver around and signed into my Xfinity account.
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Could you possibly provide the APK file you used for this? When I push the APK from my phone and use Mouse Toggle, it asks for location services, as previously mentioned.
It's that time of year again so I, too, would love to get thsi working since BTN hasn't bothered to support it.
BTN on Fox Sports Go
Fox bought a majority share of the Big Ten Network prior to last season and has now integrated Big Ten Network into their Fox Sports Go app on Fire TV. No need to install the phone apk and deal with that interface. Hope this helps other B1G fans with Fire TV.
BTN2 Go
I'm using version BTN2Go_v6.0831 works fine on my Fire Stick Need a Keyboard/Mouse
This is stupid BTN hasn't released this to the fire tv.
Scratching my head with something. I've currently got 2 Fire TV 1's and a 1st Gen Fire TV stick. All have geo restricted apps on them including the official Amazon BBC iPlayer. I recently purchased the 2nd Gen Fire TV stick and for some reason both the BBC iPlayer and Starz and Encore Play won't show up in the Amazon cloud to transfer it to the device, even though they've been purchased and like I said both apps are on the other three Fire TV devices. When I go to manage devices, it says that all 3 apps are incompatible with the Fire TV stick, yet the 1st Gen has both the BBC iPlayer and Starz Play. I've had no other problem with other U.K apps ( Itv hub, channel 4, channel 5 ) ready to download as soon as I signed into my Amazon account, but the iplayer is nowhere to be seen, nor can I transfer it from my Amazon account. I've sideloaded a keyboard version of the iplayer, but it's just not as efficient.
Just wondering if anyone else has come across this problem. The iPlayer app being geo-restricted, I get, but can someone explain to me why Starz or Encore play app doesn't even show up on the U.S app content when you do a search on the Fire TV for them, yet both apps are on my current Fire TV boxes and stick. When you do a search for Starz play, it goes to the paid content or asks you to sign up for a free 7 day trial. Since I'm just looking for to install the app on the Fire TV stick 2, why isn't it even on there. HBOgo and Showtime anytime are on there, so why no Starz or encore play?
Yes
I'm having this problem as well. Sometimes, they show up a few days later.
No clue what may be causing this.
Also, I have found that I can launch the missing apps from the Settings - Apps - Manage menu.
So I'm trying to find out if it's even possible (without root) to put Chrome and/or Google Photos on my new Fire TV.
I tried using Apps2Fire and wasn't successful. Chrome failed to install and while Google Photos did install successfully, it would force stop when attempting to log into my account.
Anyway, thought I'd ask. Kinda new to the Fire TV. Thanks for the info!
I tried and failed with Google photos on a non rooted fire TV 2. The issue you'll face is in the Google play services framework. You can side load it but I didn't manage to find a higher enough latter build that would run on the fire TV to allow Google photos to run as it should.
However I do suggest getting Pfolio and side load it to your fire TV. Works perfectly and navigation with the fire remote is perfect.
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Hi!
When I try to install tunnelbear on the fire tv I get an error about no matching ABIS. That doesn't happen however if I install it on the old fire tv box (haven't tried a stick). Any idea what this is about? I'm using Easy Fire Tools to do it, which I believe is the only android app that currently works with the 3rd generation box.
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Alright I was able to get around it by side loading aptoide and then installing from there. Unfortunately it was for nothing as the app requires Google play services.