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Make an app show up on the Home screen?

Has anyone figured out how to get an app to appear on the Fire TV home screen? Is it something programmed into the app, or is the Home screen somehow linked to the Appstore, thus only allowing apps in the Appstore to be listed on the Home screen?

elmerohueso said:
Has anyone figured out how to get an app to appear on the Fire TV home screen? Is it something programmed into the app, or is the Home screen somehow linked to the Appstore, thus only allowing apps in the Appstore to be listed on the Home screen?
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I think it has something to do with a link to the Amazon app store. I've sideloaded a bunch of apps and the only one that showed up on the home screen was Spotify (kindle fire version). When I installed the play version of Spotify it didn't show up on the home screen.

elmerohueso said:
Has anyone figured out how to get an app to appear on the Fire TV home screen? Is it something programmed into the app, or is the Home screen somehow linked to the Appstore, thus only allowing apps in the Appstore to be listed on the Home screen?
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I would place bets that it has to be signed somehow by amazon in order for it to show up on the main screen. Or like the kindle fire they put an option in to allow unauthorized apps.

MrMichaelJames said:
I would place bets that it has to be signed somehow by amazon in order for it to show up on the main screen. Or like the kindle fire they put an option in to allow unauthorized apps.
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Koying found this:
From https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/asb/faq.html#General , it appears Amazon checks if an app is sideloaded and doesn't show it on the main screen if it is. One of the way they could do so is to check from which application the apk was installed, which would return nothing when we sideload via adb.
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MrMichaelJames said:
I would place bets that it has to be signed somehow by amazon in order for it to show up on the main screen. Or like the kindle fire they put an option in to allow unauthorized apps.
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this was my thought too.
so I pulled a copy of spotify from google, and a copy from amazon store. the amazon version does not show up in my apps list like it did for dhayman11. but the only version I could get from amazon was "kindle tablet" whereas dhayman11 said his version was kindle fire.
so the next thing I did was go on the firetv and install pandora.
luckily, the firetv has the same package install method as any generic device with amazon app store: it downloads the apk into
/sdcard/android/data/com.amazon.venezia/files/apks
and then installs it.
and then deletes it lol.
even more luckily, I was able to gank a copy of the apk safely to /sdcard/ on the first try, before it was deleted.
the KF apk of spotify, and the AFTV/KFTV apk of pandora, both have 3 extra files that the google apks do not have. signatures indeed:
KF spotify
com.amazon.content.id.MC-S-2UIMENB7RPX86 2b9caef13142184773d485b1aca955b5
com.amazon.kiwi.version 647a47a71e371ae13642b26cb75c593f
kiwi 96ac1624b345483aa1b393fe52624ddd
KFTV pandora
com.amazon.content.id.MC-S-1UVY84RC4VBZ6 60e678411e0e696dee205591a51609b6
com.amazon.kiwi.version 647a47a71e371ae13642b26cb75c593f
kiwi 96ac1624b345483aa1b393fe52624ddd
so obviously 2 of the files can simply be copied and injected into target apk. but just as obviously, 1 file may have to be generated somehow.
but that 1 apk-specific file contains nothing special, just text (which happens to match the filename)
com.amazon.content.id.MC-S-2UIMENB7RPX86 --
MC-S-2UIMENB7RPX86
com.amazon.content.id.MC-S-1UVY84RC4VBZ6 --
MC-S-1UVY84RC4VBZ6
who knows, maybe it doesn't need to be generated, just referenced in the manifest xml somewhere (haven't gotten around to digging into those just yet...)
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of course, the other thing that only occurred to me this morning (which is dumb, because amazon has been talking lots of public talk about it for a while now)
is that repackaging apps with a new signature should be possible with their development tools. and they just happen to have the SDK and eclipse mumbo-gumbo for free download:
https://developer.amazon.com/public/resources/development-tools
(I'm guessing they make their money when you want your app in the amazon store, rather than charging for the sdk which was historically more usual)

tarvoke said:
this was my thought too.
so I pulled a copy of spotify from google, and a copy from amazon store. the amazon version does not show up in my apps list like it did for dhayman11. but the only version I could get from amazon was "kindle tablet" whereas dhayman11 said his version was kindle fire.
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Yeah I just tried to replicate it and its not showing up in my "apps library" list now either. Must have been a glitch or something. It was likely the "Kindle tablet" version, rather than "Kindle fire" version, I just remember it said something about being the kindle version.

dhayman11 said:
Yeah I just tried to replicate it and its not showing up in my "apps library" list now either. Must have been a glitch or something. It was likely the "Kindle tablet" version, rather than "Kindle fire" version, I just remember it said something about being the kindle version.
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oh ok
I figured it was just me doing something wrong.as usual

It probably has to do with the exact app name (com.amazon.bah.blah.blah). I sideloaded updated Plex app (paid app), since amazon store is behind, and it shows on the home screen.
So if it's on the amazon store, and available for Fire TV, and has the same name, then it will probably show regardless of where it came from, version, or if it was sideloaded.

Luxferro said:
It probably has to do with the exact app name (com.amazon.bah.blah.blah). I sideloaded updated Plex app (paid app), since amazon store is behind, and it shows on the home screen.
So if it's on the amazon store, and available for Fire TV, and has the same name, then it will probably show regardless of where it came from, version, or if it was sideloaded.
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No, it just needs to be signed by Amazon.
Remember, this is the Apple-era, where only losers sell hardware for a profit. The winners make a profit off everything you do with "your" hardware. Amazon didn't make Fire TV so you can have a cheap HTPC box to do as you please, they made it for you to consume content provided by Amazon. This is why you can't have you apps show up on the home screen, this is also why the Home button on the remote can not be rebound or overridden, and this is also why the voice search feature will only give you results from Amazon.

Check this out.. http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=191109&pid=1682194#pid1682194
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sadboyzz said:
No, it just needs to be signed by Amazon.
Remember, this is the Apple-era, where only losers sell hardware for a profit. The winners make a profit off everything you do with "your" hardware. Amazon didn't make Fire TV so you can have a cheap HTPC box to do as you please, they made it for you to consume content provided by Amazon. This is why you can't have you apps show up on the home screen, this is also why the Home button on the remote can not be rebound or overridden, and this is also why the voice search feature will only give you results from Amazon.
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Explain how a sideloaded app taken from Google play shows on home page then? A version not available on amazon.
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Luxferro said:
Explain how a sideloaded app taken from Google play shows on home page then? A version not available on amazon.
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the plex thing, who knows. it's a paid app so that's one major difference with everything else we've been playing with.
it's not the classname - amazon is using the same exact namespace as google and anyone else.
com.amazon.kindle
com.pandora.gtv
com.estrongs.android.taskmanager
etc...
because you don't go messing around with namespaces. no one does. for one thing, changing the classname is a licensing problem - quite likely breaking the law. and in practical terms, you could easily end up having 2 versions of the same app fighting over the same resource media/settings/etc. deadlock and threading issues, dirty reads abound.
if I sideload com.pandora.gtv taken from google, it stays in the kiddie menu.
if I sideload the pandora apk that I ganked from the amazon app store, it goes to the app menu.
but in both cases, running "adb shell pm list packages -f" reports that the firetv sees the app as: com.pandora.gtv
how does the firetv decide what happens when you sideload an app? I don't know. I have a moderately good guess.
there are:
- some extra indicator/tag files
- different RSA signatures/certs (check out META-INF)
- possibly non-trivial differences in the manifest xml
below is some info about some indicator files that are in the amazon apks. but not in non-amazon apks.
you can see that 2 of the files are identical between the 2 apks, but still generically saying hey this is some amazon apk not a regular one.
and then there is 1 file that is different. some sort of specific signature or hash.
(each com.amazon.content.id.$FOO file simply contains "$FOO" - it's some sort of unique generated string but no idea what it relates to)
com.amazon.content.id.MC-S-2UIMENB7RPX86 2b9caef13142184773d485b1aca955b5
com.amazon.kiwi.version 647a47a71e371ae13642b26cb75c593f
kiwi 96ac1624b345483aa1b393fe52624ddd
com.amazon.content.id.MC-S-1UVY84RC4VBZ6 60e678411e0e696dee205591a51609b6
com.amazon.kiwi.version 647a47a71e371ae13642b26cb75c593f
kiwi 96ac1624b345483aa1b393fe52624ddd
between this stuff and the RSA certs, that's probably how the firetv is set up to decide how to sort out where to put things.
I imagine similar with OUYA or any platform where this kind of split-userspace thing is going on...

tarvoke said:
the plex thing, who knows. it's a paid app so that's one major difference with everything else we've been playing with.
it's not the classname - amazon is using the same exact namespace as google and anyone else.
com.amazon.kindle
com.pandora.gtv
com.estrongs.android.taskmanager
etc...
because you don't go messing around with namespaces. no one does. for one thing, changing the classname is a licensing problem - quite likely breaking the law. and in practical terms, you could easily end up having 2 versions of the same app fighting over the same resource media/settings/etc. deadlock and threading issues, dirty reads abound.
if I sideload com.pandora.gtv taken from google, it stays in the kiddie menu.
if I sideload the pandora apk that I ganked from the amazon app store, it goes to the app menu.
but in both cases, running "adb shell pm list packages -f" reports that the firetv sees the app as: com.pandora.gtv
how does the firetv decide what happens when you sideload an app? I don't know. I have a moderately good guess.
there are:
- some extra indicator/tag files
- different RSA signatures/certs (check out META-INF)
- possibly non-trivial differences in the manifest xml
below is some info about some indicator files that are in the amazon apks. but not in non-amazon apks.
you can see that 2 of the files are identical between the 2 apks, but still generically saying hey this is some amazon apk not a regular one.
and then there is 1 file that is different. some sort of specific signature or hash.
(each com.amazon.content.id.$FOO file simply contains "$FOO" - it's some sort of unique generated string but no idea what it relates to)
com.amazon.content.id.MC-S-2UIMENB7RPX86 2b9caef13142184773d485b1aca955b5
com.amazon.kiwi.version 647a47a71e371ae13642b26cb75c593f
kiwi 96ac1624b345483aa1b393fe52624ddd
com.amazon.content.id.MC-S-1UVY84RC4VBZ6 60e678411e0e696dee205591a51609b6
com.amazon.kiwi.version 647a47a71e371ae13642b26cb75c593f
kiwi 96ac1624b345483aa1b393fe52624ddd
between this stuff and the RSA certs, that's probably how the firetv is set up to decide how to sort out where to put things.
I imagine similar with OUYA or any platform where this kind of split-userspace thing is going on...
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Yeah, that stuff is kinda over my head (I guess I was wrong on that classname stuff). I was mostly pointing out that the latest version of paid Plex app, taken from google play store and sideloaded on Fire TV shows the app on the homescreen, even though the version from amazon is older and different.

Luxferro said:
Yeah, that stuff is kinda over my head (I guess I was wrong on that classname stuff). I was mostly pointing out that the latest version of paid Plex app, taken from google play store and sideloaded on Fire TV shows the app on the homescreen, even though the version from amazon is older and different.
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yeah that really makes little to no sense I mean, I'm glad it works, and I'm sure plex-using-peoples of the world are very happy. but I have zero clue
right now I am still feeling way too lazy to download the free sdk and learn how to use it. but it does all the correct signing stuff i.e. any app you make with it should go into the grownup app menu on the home screen. and it might even be possible to use it to re-sign apk files from non-amazon sources.

tarvoke said:
the plex thing, who knows. it's a paid app so that's one major difference with everything else we've been playing with.
it's not the classname - amazon is using the same exact namespace as google and anyone else.
com.amazon.kindle
com.pandora.gtv
com.estrongs.android.taskmanager
etc...
because you don't go messing around with namespaces. no one does. for one thing, changing the classname is a licensing problem - quite likely breaking the law. and in practical terms, you could easily end up having 2 versions of the same app fighting over the same resource media/settings/etc. deadlock and threading issues, dirty reads abound.
if I sideload com.pandora.gtv taken from google, it stays in the kiddie menu.
if I sideload the pandora apk that I ganked from the amazon app store, it goes to the app menu.
but in both cases, running "adb shell pm list packages -f" reports that the firetv sees the app as: com.pandora.gtv
how does the firetv decide what happens when you sideload an app? I don't know. I have a moderately good guess.
there are:
- some extra indicator/tag files
- different RSA signatures/certs (check out META-INF)
- possibly non-trivial differences in the manifest xml
below is some info about some indicator files that are in the amazon apks. but not in non-amazon apks.
you can see that 2 of the files are identical between the 2 apks, but still generically saying hey this is some amazon apk not a regular one.
and then there is 1 file that is different. some sort of specific signature or hash.
(each com.amazon.content.id.$FOO file simply contains "$FOO" - it's some sort of unique generated string but no idea what it relates to)
com.amazon.content.id.MC-S-2UIMENB7RPX86 2b9caef13142184773d485b1aca955b5
com.amazon.kiwi.version 647a47a71e371ae13642b26cb75c593f
kiwi 96ac1624b345483aa1b393fe52624ddd
com.amazon.content.id.MC-S-1UVY84RC4VBZ6 60e678411e0e696dee205591a51609b6
com.amazon.kiwi.version 647a47a71e371ae13642b26cb75c593f
kiwi 96ac1624b345483aa1b393fe52624ddd
between this stuff and the RSA certs, that's probably how the firetv is set up to decide how to sort out where to put things.
I imagine similar with OUYA or any platform where this kind of split-userspace thing is going on...
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On submission to the Amazon Appstore, Amazon signs all of your apps with a secure key for your account. The resulting hash code is unique to your app and different from any hash codes you may have for that app in different app stores. I wonder if someone can sign up for a dev account, get the hash keys and apply it locally to a sideloaded app and then load it into the fire tv.

Interesting..
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Use Llama to lunch XBMC or other Apps from FTV Home
I'm using Llama app to access XBMC from the FTV home page. I downloaded an app from Amazon app store that I was never going to use "Classic TV" and created an event in Llama to launch XBMC instead of the other app.
You can go to the XBMC wiki page for the whole instructions about sideloading to FTV. To get the Llama app go to the developer page and download app for sideloading: http://kebabapps.blogspot.com/.
From XBMC.org Wiki for FTV:
Launch XBMC from an Existing App on the FTV Home Screen
There is a alternative way to invoke XBMC from the FTV Home Screen using Llama. This method uses a “sacrificial” app that you have installed from Amazon that you will use to access XBMC. The app can be anything you have installed but don’t need to use; however, some apps behave better than others (some apps will enter a loop when exiting XBMC). One app that has been tested and works well for this purpose is “Classic TV”.
The advantage of this method is that using the sacrificial app you have Home Screen Access to XBMC and you can exit XBMC to the FTV Home Screen just as you would any other FTV app.
4.1 Prerequisites
Llama side loaded on your FTV.
The app called “Classic TV” from the Amazon app store.
One Llama Event (described below).
4.2 Procedure
Install / side-load Llama.
Install “Classic TV” app from Amazon app store.
Launch Llama (From FireTV - Settings > Applications > Llama > Launch Application).
Go to EVENTS on top menu and click '+' to add a NEW EVENT.
In your NEW EVENT select ADD CONDITION then, from the Menu select 'Active Application' and select 'Choose App’. Scroll through the list of apps until you find “Classic TV” and select this app. Doing this should return you to the Events Menu.
Next, select ADD ACTION and select 'Run Application' from the Menu list. From here, select whatever the name of your XBMC build is. That should create your event. At this point you can also name your event to distinguish it from others.
Now when you start the “Classic TV” app from the Home Screen, it should automatically open XBMC. Feel free to experiment with other apps from the FTV app store. Just be aware that some will loop back and re-start XBMC when you try and exit XBMC to get back to the FTV Home Screen.

gmicalzoma said:
I'm using Llama app to access XBMC from the FTV home page. I downloaded an app from Amazon app store that I was never going to use "Classic TV" and created an event in Llama to launch XBMC instead of the other app.
You can go to the XBMC wiki page for the whole instructions about sideloading to FTV. To get the Llama app go to the developer page and download app for sideloading: http://kebabapps.blogspot.com/.
From XBMC.org Wiki for FTV:
Launch XBMC from an Existing App on the FTV Home Screen
There is a alternative way to invoke XBMC from the FTV Home Screen using Llama. This method uses a “sacrificial” app that you have installed from Amazon that you will use to access XBMC. The app can be anything you have installed but don’t need to use; however, some apps behave better than others (some apps will enter a loop when exiting XBMC). One app that has been tested and works well for this purpose is “Classic TV”.
The advantage of this method is that using the sacrificial app you have Home Screen Access to XBMC and you can exit XBMC to the FTV Home Screen just as you would any other FTV app.
4.1 Prerequisites
Llama side loaded on your FTV.
The app called “Classic TV” from the Amazon app store.
One Llama Event (described below).
4.2 Procedure
Install / side-load Llama.
Install “Classic TV” app from Amazon app store.
Launch Llama (From FireTV - Settings > Applications > Llama > Launch Application).
Go to EVENTS on top menu and click '+' to add a NEW EVENT.
In your NEW EVENT select ADD CONDITION then, from the Menu select 'Active Application' and select 'Choose App’. Scroll through the list of apps until you find “Classic TV” and select this app. Doing this should return you to the Events Menu.
Next, select ADD ACTION and select 'Run Application' from the Menu list. From here, select whatever the name of your XBMC build is. That should create your event. At this point you can also name your event to distinguish it from others.
Now when you start the “Classic TV” app from the Home Screen, it should automatically open XBMC. Feel free to experiment with other apps from the FTV app store. Just be aware that some will loop back and re-start XBMC when you try and exit XBMC to get back to the FTV Home Screen.
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Is this possible with any other app rather than kodi?

[Q] How do I setup live TV in XBMC on Fire TV?

Just like the title says, I see a lot of people around these forums that say they've setup live TV. It sounds pretty easy, but I'm just confused how I could get it working.
Since I'm running my fire TV through my TV, do I have to run a coaxial to the fire TV or what? Lol.
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I have setup live TV through Xbmc if this is what you mean? If so see below. Had to edit this post as i assumed this is what you meant. If not it will be of no use to you.
You'll need to enable live TV under system settings. When this is done you will have to choose a PVR client from a list provided. Choose Simple PVR Client. Then go into settings for this addon (under configure)and enter the URL which I will PM you (not sure if public posting is allowed). Untick box which says "cache m3u at local storage" and save settings and restart. You should now have live TV on Xbmc.

D33H said:
I have setup live TV through Xbmc if this is what you mean? If so see below. Had to edit this post as i assumed this is what you meant. If not it will be of no use to you.
You'll need to enable live TV under system settings. When this is done you will have to choose a PVR client from a list provided. Choose Simple PVR Client. Then go into settings for this addon (under configure)and enter the URL which I will PM you (not sure if public posting is allowed). Untick box which says "cache m3u at local storage" and save settings and restart. You should now have live TV on Xbmc.
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I think he wants to route his home cable through firetv.
if thats the case then check this link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=57255216&postcount=53

Yeah I realised that after I had posted hence my edit. Thanks.
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D33H said:
I have setup live TV through Xbmc if this is what you mean? If so see below. Had to edit this post as i assumed this is what you meant. If not it will be of no use to you.
You'll need to enable live TV under system settings. When this is done you will have to choose a PVR client from a list provided. Choose Simple PVR Client. Then go into settings for this addon (under configure)and enter the URL which I will PM you (not sure if public posting is allowed). Untick box which says "cache m3u at local storage" and save settings and restart. You should now have live TV on Xbmc.
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Could you please PM me the URL for it? I would like to try and set it up. Thank you!!

bishop72 said:
Could you please PM me the URL for it? I would like to try and set it up. Thank you!!
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Same request please

D33H said:
I have setup live TV through Xbmc if this is what you mean? If so see below. Had to edit this post as i assumed this is what you meant. If not it will be of no use to you.
You'll need to enable live TV under system settings. When this is done you will have to choose a PVR client from a list provided. Choose Simple PVR Client. Then go into settings for this addon (under configure)and enter the URL which I will PM you (not sure if public posting is allowed). Untick box which says "cache m3u at local storage" and save settings and restart. You should now have live TV on Xbmc.
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Also would like the url would be much appreciated

And me please url that is
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Would love to have the URL as well...thanks!

Me too

URL?

for all those looking for the pvr tv URL, there are many people out there who have their own lists. for instance you can google bbtsip but since its a free service dont expect much.

D33H said:
I have setup live TV through Xbmc if this is what you mean? If so see below. Had to edit this post as i assumed this is what you meant. If not it will be of no use to you.
You'll need to enable live TV under system settings. When this is done you will have to choose a PVR client from a list provided. Choose Simple PVR Client. Then go into settings for this addon (under configure)and enter the URL which I will PM you (not sure if public posting is allowed). Untick box which says "cache m3u at local storage" and save settings and restart. You should now have live TV on Xbmc.
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Could you pm me the urn as well please? Thanks!

To anyone who has PM'd me regarding live TV url - the initial link I sent you all is now down but was definitely working. I have sent a new link which i have tested a few minutes ago. I have resent the new link to most of you hopefully. If not let me know.
Thanks

D33H said:
To anyone who has PM'd me regarding live TV url - the initial link I sent you all is now down but was definitely working. I have sent a new link which i have tested a few minutes ago. I have resent the new link to most of you hopefully. If not let me know.
Thanks
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Could you send me the URL as well...I did not receive the URL first time around...thanks!

Could you pm me the url to?

can you pm me link too please

I was using m3u lists which ranged from poor to fairly consistent but eventually they stopped working for me. I'd be interested to see what you're using if you could pm me please.
Another alternative is xfinity tv app has live tv with excellent quality if you have a username & password. I created a shortcut in xbmc. Needs a mouse but my ouya works fine for that. The only thing I'm lacking is my local stations for news. Has anyone been able to get local affiliates? I think there's a way.

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Please PM me as well. Thanks.

Automatically Load HDHomeRun LIve TV

I know there are guides to automatically start Kodi when booting up Fire TV, but is there a way I can start into the HDHomeRun LIve Add-On right when Kodi boots up? I am trying to make this as easy as possible for a parent who doesn't wanna go through any menus and etc.

midnite8 said:
I know there are guides to automatically start Kodi when booting up Fire TV, but is there a way I can start into the HDHomeRun LIve Add-On right when Kodi boots up? I am trying to make this as easy as possible for a parent who doesn't wanna go through any menus and etc.
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The TVAddons package has a utility that let you designate which addon will auto-launch when Kodi itself starts. If you have this package installed you go to Programs | Maintenance Tool | System Tweaks | Auto Start Addon and select whichever addon (from your list of favorites) you want to auto start. You may have to set the desired addon as a favorite beforehand. You then reboot Kodi and you should be all set.
I have a similar situation where I setup a particular addon to start and thus the person does not have to deal with menus at all. Goes straight to what she wants to watch.

AQKhanTheOne said:
The TVAddons package has a utility that let you designate which addon will auto-launch when Kodi itself starts. If you have this package installed you go to Programs | Maintenance Tool | System Tweaks | Auto Start Addon and select whichever addon (from your list of favorites) you want to auto start. You may have to set the desired addon as a favorite beforehand. You then reboot Kodi and you should be all set.
I have a similar situation where I setup a particular addon to start and thus the person does not have to deal with menus at all. Goes straight to what she wants to watch.
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Even after adding HDHomeRun Live as a favorite, when I go to add a program into the Auto Start Addon, I do not see HDHomeRun in the list of programs. The HDHomeRun Live is on the Video Favorites and not Program Favorites since there is no HHR Program add-on

midnite8 said:
Even after adding HDHomeRun Live as a favorite, when I go to add a program into the Auto Start Addon, I do not see HDHomeRun in the list of programs. The HDHomeRun Live is on the Video Favorites and not Program Favorites since there is no HHR Program add-on
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Ok I'm not sure why it doesn't work for you. Could it be that global favorites and "video" favorites that you might be defining in the skin settings are somehow different? In my case I go to Video | Video Addons, and use the menu (3 lines) button to bring up the context menu and select the Add to Favorites option. I just tried it on my own FireTv and seem to work just fine.

FireTV XBMC installed captcha help

Ok guys, I've got XBMC/KODI installed on the fire box and it's working brilliantly. However, I've installed a repo to get hold of some more items to watch and when I attempt to access this particular add-on it asks for a captcha but there is no visible captcha to allow me to enter anything using either the onscreen or physical keyboard so it won't allow me to access the content? Any ideas

sinbrad said:
Ok guys, I've got XBMC/KODI installed on the fire box and it's working brilliantly. However, I've installed a repo to get hold of some more items to watch and when I attempt to access this particular add-on it asks for a captcha but there is no visible captcha to allow me to enter anything using either the onscreen or physical keyboard so it won't allow me to access the content? Any ideas
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using kodi a long time now and don't recall coming across any captchas...I use a bare bones setup with tvaddons using addon installer to get the few addons I need and just that gives me access to just about any media I can imagine. Be weery of what repos you use. Its like anything else you download, there's safe and malicious. I have no reason to think the repo you got is bad but its just a heads up, depending on what you want there might be better options.

The thread is kind of useless if you are not gonn tell us what addon you are having problems with so that we can see if it happens to us too. I use other addons that involve captcha popups, but it depends on the stream and not the addon. Some sites require captcha input for streams. A good example is the "TV-Release" addon, all their streams in the addon require you to solve a captcha, but I have never had a problem doing so. Maybe its not the addon causing the problem, maybe its your skin that is not letting the captcha popup, or maybe its entirely something else. Its hard to know a solution without knowing what addon you are talking about. Please reply with the name of the addon. Also, change your skin and see if that helps. I have used skins in the past that would not show captchas.

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The thread is kind of useless if you are not gonn tell us what addon you are having problems with so that we can see if it happens to us too. I use other addons that involve captcha popups, but it depends on the stream and not the addon. Some sites require captcha input for streams. A good example is the "TV-Release" addon, all their streams in the addon require you to solve a captcha, but I have never had a problem doing so. Maybe its not the addon causing the problem, maybe its your skin that is not letting the captcha popup, or maybe its entirely something else. Its hard to know a solution without knowing what addon you are talking about. Please reply with the name of the addon. Also, change your skin and see if that helps. I have used skins in the past that would not show captchas.
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Sorry but as stupid as this may seem I wasn't sure about the rules mentioning add ons etc but the add on in question is 1channel ie primewire. Is it a question of trying out various skins to see if any work. The other problem is that because I wasn't able to input the captcha it shut me out of the add on?

sinbrad said:
Sorry but as stupid as this may seem I wasn't sure about the rules mentioning add ons etc but the add on in question is 1channel ie primewire. Is it a question of trying out various skins to see if any work. The other problem is that because I wasn't able to input the captcha it shut me out of the add on?
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I have never had a captcha popup while opening 1channel. I have had to solve captchas for certain links with 1channel, but never to open the addon. What you need to do is uninstall it manually. Find your Kodi folder and delete the 1channel folder from the addons folder, delete the 1channel folder from the addon data folder and delete the 1channel db files from the database folder. Reinstall 1channel, but make sure you install it from the tvaddons.ag repo. If you haven't got that repo, google for directions on how to install it.

Maybe not been clear, I can open the add on without problem and I can go to the TV series folder and view any one of the programs. But when I go to the movies folder and try and open one of the movies, that's when I got the captcha come up. Because I couldn't enter the captcha it booted me back into an empty folder. I can still go into the TV series without problem

sinbrad said:
Maybe not been clear, I can open the add on without problem and I can go to the TV series folder and view any one of the programs. But when I go to the movies folder and try and open one of the movies, that's when I got the captcha come up. Because I couldn't enter the captcha it booted me back into an empty folder. I can still go into the TV series without problem
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Like I said, its normal to have to solve captchas to watch certain streams. I frequently have to solve captchas to watch movies or TV shows. Not sure why you are not able to enter captchas. Does the stream you are trying to watch have several sources? If so use a different source that does not require a captcha. Heres what we are gonna do, tell me the movie you are trying to watch and I will see if the same happens to me. It is a certain movie thats causing the problem right, or is it all movies that you try to watch?

The movie I attempted to watch was "Last Knights". I reinstalled 1channel and instead of booting me out of the listing when I failed to enter the captcha I returned to the movie listing and can view other movies without a problem, well so far that is. So possibly just Last Knights that is causing the problem

sinbrad said:
The movie I attempted to watch was "Last Knights". I reinstalled 1channel and instead of booting me out of the listing when I failed to enter the captcha I returned to the movie listing and can view other movies without a problem, well so far that is. So possibly just Last Knights that is causing the problem
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I just had no problem playing the movie. I tried every link and only a couple required a captcha, and there is exactly 30 different link sources. When you click on the movie there should be a popup with all the different link sources for the movie, if one does not work, click on the movie again and try a different source. Some sites require you to solve captchas to watch content so depending on the website that the link is from you may have to solve a captcha, but for Last Knights there were only a couple sources that required a captcha to be solved. I exclusively use 1channel for reruns and movies, but there are several other addons that basically do the same as 1channel, so you might wanna try watching the movie from another addon. 1channel is far from perfect, it has several quirks like everytime I watch an episode from my favorites it sends me back to the addon screen and if I hit back it sends me back to my favorites, but I still think its the best addon for TV and movies. Is your version of 1channel 2.5.64?

Well, this is a strange one. I currently have two fire tv boxes, one in the bedroom and one in the living room. When I open up 1channel in the bedroom I can navigate to both tv series and movies without a problem. However, when I use the one in the living room I can access tv series but when I attempt to open the movies section it immediately tells me I have to type the image on the screen to proceed. Obviously I cannot see any image as this was my original problem so when I quit it just takes me to a blank directory. No matter what I do I cannot get passed the "type image on screen to proceed". I even attempted to uninstall 1channel and reinstall but when I open it up again all the settings are still there from the original setup so it still won't allow me to enter the movies section. How can I completely wipe the box of 1channel and setting so I can try to start afresh?

Kodi not showing up on recents

I just bought a new fire tv and it's up to date to the latest version. I installed Kodi and I tried to do the favorites thing and the short cut won't show up on the recents. Is there a work around? I tried to install the app starter and it won't work either.

You need to do a few things.
http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-get-kodi-to-show-up-on-the-home-screen-of-a-fire-tv-or-fire-tv-stick/
1. Delete Kodi from your Amazon purchase history
2. Clear Amazon’s Appstore app data
Those 2 things did the trick for me.
Good Luck

I couldn't get it in "Recent" after all the steps, but I managed to get it into "App". That is what I need for having a shortcut.