So I have a few fire sticks from tank Sheldon Sloan etc and all of them after a few weeks the firetv remotes stop working even after replacing the batteries the fire stick says it is not connected to the remote and the remotes still control the tv volumes just fine. has anyone encountered this or is it something I did wrong with rooting the devices?
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Since the Fire TV stick has no usable USB port to speak of, we can't just plug in an IR dongle.
Some people have had success using HDMI-CEC and their TV remote control. However, my Olevia 232 TV doesn't seem to support the CEC protocol.
Has anyone had any luck using a PS3 remote? Has anyone tried using a Harmony PS3 adapter, or IR2BT bridge?
My thoughts were to build an Arduino device using BT shield setup to use the keyboard profile or Joystick profile; and couple that with an IR receiver.
I have successfully side loaded the settings.apk. I am able to pair a BT PC keyboard. I have seen reports that even some Samsung TV's don't support CEC protocol. So even if officially none of this works, I might be able to Pair one of the devices mentioned above with settings.apk.
Well, I had to side-load the settings.apk. In doing so, I could pair a bt keyboard and a bt media remote control by Satechi. Unfortunately, only PLAY/Pause and the home key do anything. But it's a star. The Forward and back buttons don't seem to work. However, I wonder, if they sent ff and rewind commands; if it would respond.
This gave me the idea to pair the Fire tv remote to my phone.
I was able to pair the Fire TV stick remote to my phone, and tested all of the key buttons .
Amazon Fire TV Remote
ButtonKeyCode
Up19
down20
left21
right22
back4
Home?
menu82
Rew89
Play85
FF90
I wonder if I rename a device to `Amazon Fire TV Remote` if it will accecpt paring in the normal Fire TV settings menu.
I have a few firetv sticks. Today I noticed something peculiar. One is located in my garage and I was using an IPTV app on the device. I picked up the tv remote to set the timer. I backed out and realized was backing out of a menu app on the firetv. I also have an RCA universal 6 device remote and it worked as well. I know I programmed the rca to control a roku. But I don’t recall doing anything for the firetv. I certainly never did anything to the Panasonic remote (it’s an older plasma tv). Anyone ever seen this? I have many of the universal remotes and it would be great to program more to work with other firetv sticks.
What you're seeing is called HDMI-CEC. It allows the TV to send basic navigation commands to the Fire TV over the HDMI connection. No programming is needed. You can verify this is what is happening by disabling HDMI-CEC in the Fire TV's display settings. See here: http://www.aftvnews.com/amazon-fire...able-hdmi-cec-in-new-5-2-4-0-software-update/
Hi,
My Panasonic TV normally switches on automatic when I press a button on the remote of my second generation fire tv stick, but this stopped after the June 15 update on my stick. Hdmi cec is turned on on the stick as well as on the TV. Is it a known bug? Or what else could I check?
Seeing the same on a Phillips tv. Stock FireTV Stick v2
Ditto, same problem with HDMI-CEC not working
Jackie78 said:
Hi,
My Panasonic TV normally switches on automatic when I press a button on the remote of my second generation fire tv stick, but this stopped after the June 15 update on my stick. Hdmi cec is turned on on the stick as well as on the TV. Is it a known bug? Or what else could I check?
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I am also experiencing the same problem with Nvidia Shield 1st generation and the AFTV 2nd generation box. Each box got an update within a week or two from each other. After the updates, none of the AFTV or the NS boxes HDMI-CEC features work anymore. I have checked and rechecked and have completed a series of resets and tests to verify functionality, but each had the results of not working.
I am wondering if the developer vender is the same one that is hired by each company. If that is the case, then there could be more devices out there that is experiencing the same issue. Anyone have a fix or know of a knowledge database where I can check to see if there is a fix or a workaround?
Try the Home button on the fire TV remote. I noticed the same behavior with/to my LG television, formerly every button switched on my TV. Since the update only the Home works.
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Has anyone figured out a fix to this? I am also experiencing this issue on my Samsung TV. I've tried all buttons, no avail. This issue exists on both of my Amazon devices: Fire TV 2nd Gen and 3rd Gen.
Same here
I have the same problem. Hdmi CEC stopped working on my Fire TV (1. Gen). CEC ist active on my TV and Fire TV but the TV (Samsung) does not turn on anymore. Failure is in Amazon device, because my Google Chromecast and PS4 do turn on the TV. A already swapped the Hdmi ports to exclude failure in the port on the TV. I'm sure the Amazon Fire TV is guilty. Amazon is crap in terms of software development and bug fixing. For example, the android companion app for alexa does not work on my devices with android pie. It crashs at start. Amazon support told me, I should test an older version of the app... several month passed, still no solution - that's very unprofessional. I replaced all Echos by Google Homes. Now it seems, it is time to replace all Fire TVs.
I have had a Harmony Hub and Fire TV for years and it always worked, until I tried to adjust some custom settings for Delay on Input because sometimes it wouldn't change the input to my Fire TV....after that, Harmony will no longer control the Fire TV with the remote. I have tried deleting the Fire TV device, deleting and recreating the Watch FIreTV activity, nothing works.
It will pair fine in Bluetooth settings on the Fire TV, it just will not control anything.
Any ideas on how I can get this to work again?
FYI, the Amazon Fire TV remote works fine, but I want to go back to using my Harmony Remote for everything.
This just started happening 2 days ago when I made some changes, which I have since reverted back to Defaults in an attempt to fix this issue.
Ok, well nevermind...so this time I opened up the App to see if I could control it that way and it told me that my hub was in pairing mode...even though I had already paired it. This time it paired again and I had access. My only thought is possibly this FireTV may have paired with my other Harmony remote in another part of the house. It all seems to be working fine now.
I have a FireTV Stick 4K with latest offical firmware and trying to pair a Alexa Voice Remote (1st Generation). I really tried everything, but the FireTV does not recognise it
I still have an old Basic Edition Remote, that does pair without any problems.
I also reset the Voice Remote as descirbed in the amazon help (tried all button combinations, also from the other remotes). Removed batteries, restarted FireTV, even reset FireTV, tried pairing with home button after restart, tried pairing ober the menu with add new remote... nothing...
I thought it's broken, but it does pair after reset (with left button and menue button) to an old FireTV 2 (which i normaly no longer use). So the remote seems to work. Because i get it done with other remote and on other FireTV hardware i also shouldn't be too stupid to just do it right...
And because the old basic remote does also pair to the FireTV Stick 4k, the FireTV Stick should also be fine...
Any ideas I could try to get the damn voice remote got paired to the FireTV Stick 4k?
The FireTV 2 remote uses WiFi direct.
The basic edition, 2nd and 3rd gen remotes use Bluetooth.
The WiFi direct remote is not compatible with the 4k Stick.