I purchased the Toshiba Fire TV edition on prime day from amazon. The fire tv remote has four buttons to open specific apps: prime video, netflix, hbo, and vue. Any idea how to remap those buttons to open a different app? I'll never use the vue button and would rather it open Plex.
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Try install Button Mapper from the Google play store
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Has anyone got yatse to work with SPMC? Or Kodi on fire tv for that matter? After setting yatse up it works perfectly for a while then for some reason goes offline. Then after a while it will come back online. Whislt offline i can still use the arrow keys to control SPMC.
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Has anyone got yatse to work with SPMC? Or Kodi on fire tv for that matter? After setting yatse up it works perfectly for a while then for some reason goes offline. Then after a while it will come back online. Whislt offline i can still use the arrow keys to control SPMC.
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I use it to control all of my xbmc/spmc installs including one on a fire TV and one on aftv stick. I have never noticed and disconnects.
Hi,
I got a lot of lags on my fire tv when I watched the huluplus. Someone told me to adjust the option 'qualitly' to lowest, but I can't find it. and meanwhile I have found it on my samsung smart tv. It works perfectly. Now I have to wire to my smart TV directly.
So how to find the settings on my fire tv?
1. when you get the lag and buffering to huluplus, what would you do? What kind of STB do you have?
2. Why does not hulu add a option for the account so that we adjust the quality for every device, just like Netflix did it.
thanks
I'm on a new Fire TV running 5.2.4.0
I've noticed that about half the time if I'm watching something in one program (channel... whatever) and hit the home button, I can still hear the video playing even though I'm on the home screen. It's as if the program is still running in the background somehow.
I'm coming from a roku so am new to fire tv. I'm wondering if there's a more appropriate way on the fire tv to quit a program??
Any help/info would be greatly appreciated.
I always just hit the back button to back out of the app...
Pressing home is not supposed to quite the app. This is the expected behavior on all Android devices, not just the Fire TV, so that you can jump in and out of multiple apps without losing your place. If you want to quit an app, you need to either use the app's built in quit/exit option (if it has one) or go into the Fire TV's settings menu and force quit an app from list of installed apps.
Audio from an app continuing to play while you're on the Fire TV home screen is also the intended behavior. This is so you can start music, like in the Amazon Music app, Spotify, or Pandora, and do something else on the Fire TV while the music is still playing. If audio is playing while you're on the home screen, you should be able to press play/pause/fast forward/rewind to control the audio, even though the app is not in the foreground.
Anybody here with the Toshiba's fire TV try using the remote to control your playstation? It freaked me out the first time it happened. Once out is on, you can scroll thru xmb and control video in YouTube and hulu so far I've found.
When I play a video on kodi streaming or local file, the play/pause button remote control button works as it should. However, when I run any voice command, such as "Alexa what time is it?" afterwards the play/pause button doesn't work. All other buttons work fine. If I exit kodi and run it again, it works again. There is always the option to use the select key to get the OSD (On Screen Display) for the Video Player during playback, but its not as convenient. Anyone else experience this issue and is there a way to solve it?
Running Kodi 19.1
Thank you.
I also have this problem.
Latest amazon fire cube, up to date. Kodi 19.1.
The voice command for play/pause does nothing.
Also pressing the play/pause button on the remote does nothing.
To get it to pause or play whilst a video is playing, I have to press select to bring up the on screen display/controls and manually select the pause button on screen.
As mentioned above, voice and the pause button on the remote seem to work at first, but after a while it stops.
Anyone come up with a fix for this?
When I first got my Fire Cube I was able to say, "Alexa, pause" and, "Alexa, play" while in Kodi and it would pause and play as expected.
Now all of the sudden, nothing. I now have to use the remote to get to the player controls bar and select the pause button as the regular play/pause button does not work.
I thought my Kodi was corrupt for whatever reason so did a rebuild from scratch (uninstalled Kodi and factory reset the Cube) and for about a day I had Alexa voice commands in Kodi again but it stopped working again. I suspect some Amazon update to the Cube is breaking this.