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[Q] how to get mashup back on my fire tv

hi new to this fire tv box , I had mashup working with xbmc , see now about this mashup fix of nov 14 fix , ,my question is how to put that fix on fire tv , I tried usb stick , the file is on the stick ,put stick in fire tv but don't see anything anywhere on the fire tv where that file is , like to get mashup working again even if its not for long ,anyone put that fix on fire tv and how u did it tks , I used adb fire to put xbmc on my fire tv

Mashup into Amazon Fire Tv
hello;
1. Your amazon must be rooted this will allow to use a usb thumbdrive
2.First, reboot your AFTV with the usb thumdrive connected
3.The rooted AFTV will detect it
4.Look in system, settings, addon, install from zip file
5. Look for the root file system, then storage, sdcard0, then usbstorage and finally sda1,
6. sda1 will be your thumbdrive, from there you locate the mashup.zip file and
install it as any other addon.
I hope it helps you

otaner14 said:
hello;
1. Your amazon must be rooted this will allow to use a usb thumbdrive
2.First, reboot your AFTV with the usb thumdrive connected
3.The rooted AFTV will detect it
4.Look in system, settings, addon, install from zip file
5. Look for the root file system, then storage, sdcard0, then usbstorage and finally sda1,
6. sda1 will be your thumbdrive, from there you locate the mashup.zip file and
install it as any other addon.
I hope it helps you
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You shouldn't need Root.. You should just be able to use the AFTV Utility v31 to sideload the mashup.zip to SDCard/Download folder & install it from there. Then use ES Folder Explorer to delete the Mashup.zip to reclaim the space.

are you sure Mashup is working? I thought its offline.

I did the steps u said , but when I get to sdcard0 don't see any usb storage ? after I click on it and I don't see sda1

Mashup into Amazon Fire Tv
if you connect your usb to the aftv before and the turn on the device
the aftv will recognize the usb and then it will presented as sda1
in the root directory as I previous wrote , in order to install the
mashup.zip which is the fix for mashup
thanks

Mashup is gone. The Dev didn't want the liability of potential lawsuits.

still don't see anything ,tried it a few times , got mashup back on my fire tv using adbfire

Not rooted
I emailed the fix to myself, used the fire to save it to downloads. Loaded it in xbmc, no issues.

[Q] Move video cache on Kodi to usb thumbdrive?

I have a fire TV with Kodi and use Foldermount and Stickmount to move Kodi files from the device to the usb stick I have installed on the unit. How do I go about having all the video streaming cache from Kodi go on to my usb stick, so I don't get a low memory message when I am streaming HD video? As far I know the files located at data.kodi.org that I have folder mounted on to my USB drive only contain thumbnails & add ons. TIA!

Possible to connect external hard drive and torrent?

Hey guys. Looking at buying the amazon fire tv for my room to watch movies, tv shows, and maybe play some gta. But im determining if its the right fit for me. So i was wondering if its possible to connect my 2tb usb2/3 hdd to the fire tv, and is it possible to have a torrent client (maybe just utorrent after sideloading play store?) to download lage files to the hard drive. Also i assume ill have to root so is the newest version rootable and can do what i asked above? Im not sure what the newest version is to look it up myself. Any guides on how to do what i asked will be much appreciated!

evodev said:
Hey guys. Looking at buying the amazon fire tv for my room to watch movies, tv shows, and maybe play some gta. But im determining if its the right fit for me. So i was wondering if its possible to connect my 2tb usb2/3 hdd to the fire tv, and is it possible to have a torrent client (maybe just utorrent after sideloading play store?) to download lage files to the hard drive. Also i assume ill have to root so is the newest version rootable and can do what i asked above? Im not sure what the newest version is to look it up myself. Any guides on how to do what i asked will be much appreciated!
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Yes the latest version of the Fire Tv (AFTV2 4K version) is rootable (v5.0.4), you can find the method in the general section of this forum or there is gonna be a video guide available sometime next week (hopefully) if you can wait? As far as I know you can put a Hard drive on but not sure unless modded you can write to it (unless doing via a PC/laptop because I think at the moment the drive is only readable? (I maybe wrong about that though?). Playstore can be installed but can't be used properly (can login but can't download apps from), but you can sideload apps via a app called Apps2Fire from your Android phone or tablet. Think you can use torrent clients via Kodi anyway or just stream films/tv/sports or what ever from Kodi?
Root link 5.0.4 - http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/general/root-amazon-fire-tv-2-updated-t3277556
Hope this helps If so press that thanks button

Can someone chime if they've been able to mount and write to an external hard drive? I'm also interested in using the fire tv for torrents.

I have the fire TV 4k with the latest rooted version, I mounted a 3TB WD hard drive with Stickmount. I have used the Utorrent apk to write to the hard drive successfully. I haven't used the Kodi torrent addons tho.
But yes you can read and write to a hard drive. I have downloaded media straight to a hard drive using Utorrent, Kodi, Dolphin browser and Es File Manager.

Ocarb said:
I have the fire TV 4k with the latest rooted version, I mounted a 3TB WD hard drive with Stickmount. I have used the Utorrent apk to write to the hard drive successfully. I haven't used the Kodi torrent addons tho.
But yes you can read and write to a hard drive. I have downloaded media straight to a hard drive using Utorrent, Kodi, Dolphin browser and Es File Manager.
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Which format is your 3TB HDD.
I have not rooted mine and can only get fat32 to read which is ridiculous in this day and age to only support an archaic storage format. You can't have 4GB+ file sizes.

drizzt09 said:
Which format is your 3TB HDD.
I have not rooted mine and can only get fat32 to read which is ridiculous in this day and age to only support an archaic storage format. You can't have 4GB+ file sizes.
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NTFS. I just finished downloading a 9GB video.

Accessing an NTFS drive via Fire TV 4k

Hello!
Just purchased a Fire TV 4k to replace my WDTV Live and I've run in to a bit of a problem. I have successfully rooted the machine and I installed Stickmount to be able to access my NTFS-formated external hard drive but Stickmount appears to be unable to see the drive. The drive is a Seagate 4TB, powered by a separate PSU but it does not appear to turn on at all either when plugged in to the Fire TV or when trying to mount it.
Is there something silly that I am overlooking? Is there a known issue with some drives or perhaps I am just really unlucky and this one won't work? Are there alternatives to using Stickmount?
All I want to do is have a nicer looking, better performing version of the WDTV to play my media... Why must you make it so tricky Amazon?
Anyway, really appreciate your help and patience!

okay so, turns out switching off debugging via USB allowed the drive to power up but it still doesn't seem to be mountable or, perhaps, i can't see the drive's contents on kodi.
any idea where that stuff usually goes?

I only rooted two days ago. Stickmount hasn't been useful for me. Paragon exFAT, NTFS & EFS+ however has been great with my NTFS hard drives. It seems to run and do most stuff automatically, it does have a couple of options. If your drive is alive after installation this is the process to get things working in Kodi.
1) Go into KODI and select the Video menu then Files below it.
2) Select Files from the menu then Add videos. A window called Add Video source should appear.
3) Click the Browse button. Select External storage. You'll see a folder named ParagonNTFS If your drive is mounted.
4) Select or Open ParagonNTFS then click OK on the right side of the screen.
5) The Add Video source window appears, click Add. Then OK
From there it's straight forward. Kodi will ask how you have your files stored, index them and other fun things. So far with hard drives I've found that the Fire TV 2 wants them to be powered or connected to a powered USB hub.

NutterNatter said:
I only rooted two days ago. Stickmount hasn't been useful for me. Paragon exFAT, NTFS & EFS+ however has been great with my NTFS hard drives. It seems to run and do most stuff automatically, it does have a couple of options. If your drive is alive after installation this is the process to get things working in Kodi.
1) Go into KODI and select the Video menu then Files below it.
2) Select Files from the menu then Add videos. A window called Add Video source should appear.
3) Click the Browse button. Select External storage. You'll see a folder named ParagonNTFS If your drive is mounted.
4) Select or Open ParagonNTFS then click OK on the right side of the screen.
5) The Add Video source window appears, click Add. Then OK
From there it's straight forward. Kodi will ask how you have your files stored, index them and other fun things. So far with hard drives I've found that the Fire TV 2 wants them to be powered or connected to a powered USB hub.
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ah fantastic, i shall look in to this. what's the easiest way to get ParagonNTFS onto the Fire TV?

May I make a suggestion if this doesn't work out? Your router might have a USB port designed to allow a hard drive's contents to be a network share. Not only will Kodi be able to access the drive easier, every computer/Fire TV will be able to access it, too.

Sizzlechest said:
May I make a suggestion if this doesn't work out? Your router might have a USB port designed to allow a hard drive's contents to be a network share. Not only will Kodi be able to access the drive easier, every computer/Fire TV will be able to access it, too.
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unfortunately mine doesn't. i have found out that my old WDTV Live acts as a NAS server of some kind (i guess, it allows a harddrive to appear on the network anyway) so i am using that for now and able to view all my files. i will try out Paragon or otherwise buy the cheap usb-ethernet device i was linked to via Reddit.

Glad I found this thread.
Here's a Mac guide for this. It will cover formatting a drive in NTFS and the program you need on the Fire TV to mount the NTFS drive and how to make this work with Kodi.
http://marksmods.com/Hack-the-Fire-...e-Fire-TV-and-use-an-External-Hard-Drive.html
I'm loving this Fire TV more every day.

Just for hard drive?
Guys, being limited to fat32 and related file size < 4gb is the biggest issue that really sucks with ftv for me. I have some questions, as you already successfully removed this limt.
Does this way by paragon ntfs help even to mount an usb stick? Will stick be mounted as otg (as fat32 before) or do i will find it in the paragonntfs folder, same as the HDD?
What method you took for rooting?
If used kingroot, did you apply factory reset after finished , as i read of this recommendation?
Thanks and cheers

Meandi51 said:
Guys, being limited to fat32 and related file size < 4gb is the biggest issue that really sucks with ftv for me. I have some questions, as you already successfully removed this limt.
Does this way by paragon ntfs help even to mount an usb stick? Will stick be mounted as otg (as fat32 before) or do i will find it in the paragonntfs folder, same as the HDD?
What method you took for rooting?
If used kingroot, did you apply factory reset after finished , as i read of this recommendation?
Thanks and cheers
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An external drive is an external drive. I don't see why there would be any difference to paragon whether you were using a flash chip or a spinning platter to contain your data files.

Rooted today and paragon app works well with flash chip. Anyone experience with CF stickmount? What's the difference to Paragon except it needs extfat formatted drives?

Paragon ntfs su notifications
Hi,
im on the latest prerooted rom on my 2gen fire tv with Paragon ntfs intalled.
But i always get these paragon su granted notifications on screen every 5-10min, which drives me crazy
Does anybody get the same notifications?
How do i get rid of them?

Banging my head--WHY is AFTV automatically moving data?

I'm really confused so I'll try to provide details I can recall...
My AFTV gen 1 with OS5 kodi install was a little glitchy so eventually wound up doing a clean install.
This came AFTER MANY attempts to preserve my data.
The last 2 times I tried this I completely wiped every bit of kodi data I had on internal and USB. I installed kodi Jarvis.
The 1st time I scanned sources and it populated fine. But when I exit kodi then relaunch it I'm greeted with what looks like a blank install!
To sum up, it appears like when I exit Kodi it sends Kodi data to my usb BUT there are no settings in place to actually read that data so Kodi is blank.
Last time I made certain to remove everything. Then I took my sources.xml from my other aftv (same setup) and moved it to the problem aftv. I start up kodi, all seems fine--my movies and TV shows are there. I exit and POOF! Its gone again. If I delete my kodi data from usb drive Kodi works again but when I exit it repeats the cycle.
I'm stumped. Any help is appreciated. Thanks
***I think the issue would be resolved if someone could just tell me why data keeps exporting to my usb drive. I keep deleting it but Kodi winds up back on my usb once I exit.

http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Change_data_location_for_Android
This took 5 seconds on google.
Backing up Kodi is as simple as copying over the userdata folder, btw. If you don't know how to copy files, learn to use adb and get to know the filestructure of kodi a bit better using a file explorer on the Fire TV. Or just use a File explorer and copy the userdata folder to a networkdrive (Total commandar f.e. has a lan plugin), or a usb stick, or... If you don't know what a folder is... Try to learn that as well...

harlekinwashere said:
http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Change_data_location_for_Android
This took 5 seconds on google.
Backing up Kodi is as simple as copying over the userdata folder, btw. If you don't know how to copy files, learn to use adb and get to know the filestructure of kodi a bit better using a file explorer on the Fire TV. Or just use a File explorer and copy the userdata folder to a networkdrive (Total commandar f.e. has a lan plugin), or a usb stick, or... If you don't know what a folder is... Try to learn that as well...
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I appreciate the help but Ive been using Kodi since Frodo and aftv gen 1 since June 2014. Ive been through numerous kodi versions and never has the aftv just defaulted to moving all the data to usb...
In fact Im pretty sure it doesn't because theres methods available specifically for aftv to properly move data to usb.
I have to take a closer look at my other aftv. Its running the same kodi version.
***Btw my bandaid was to remove my usb stick and copy sources.xml from my other aftv. It works fine but of course not having external storage isnt a good option.