I've made a Home Theatre with the FireStick TV 4k and the Echo Plus (2 times) systems. But everytime i ask Alexa to play Music (with TV off) it starts music, and turns the TV on. Thing that considering that all was made in the Bedroom, it is annoying. Sleep music is so not possible, as the TV turns on, and makes a lot of Light. Is there a solution you know of?
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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 have my new (Oct 2015) Fire TV plugged directly into my television and the screen is constantly flickering/flashing white and sometimes cuts out altogether for a brief second. Clicking something on the remote stops the flickering for about 5-10s before it starts up again.
I've tried replacing the HDMI cable and adjusting the video resolution but the issue continues. I contacted Amazon and they very nicely sent me a new device, but I'm getting the exact same behavior with the new one.
Video playback is actually fine, unless I pause it - then it starts flickering again.
I've used other media players with the HDMI port on my TV and haven't had any issues at all. Is there something different about the output of the FireTV that my TV just doesn't like?
Any ideas?
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.
My firs stick is a little over a year old. I have it plugged in and when I watch Netflix or Hulu the show will just pause itself and then when I play it again there will be no sound. I have to get up and unplug it from the HDMI port and plug it back in and then it'll only play for a few minutes before it does it again. Sometimes it'll do it on the home screen when you can hear the "clicking" when going from app to app. My tv is about 8 years old so my question is if it is the firestick, netflix/hulu, or just my tv?
I've got 8 fire stick tvs in the house and we use Hulu and almost always stream live tv. When some of the tvs are shut off streaming stops while with many others the fire stick continues to stream after the tv is turned off. Crazy data consumption! I know that if we hit the Home button first the streaming will stop but is there any way to just stop streaming on the 4 tvs that continue?
work around
I used to power my ChromeCast using the USB port on my HDTV.
That worked until I added my FirestickTV.
I now use a "smart power strip" and the ChromeCast/FirestickTV only receive power if the HDTV is turned on.
IDK if there's a setting to power down the FireStick if the HDMI connection is null/dead but good luck!
It sounds like it may be a HDMI CEC issue.