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A new version of Firestarter has been released. quote:Big update for FireStarter. I have still no own FireTV2 with the real FireOS5 but there is one on the way to me. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63207099&postcount=233 ____________________ And the Tivo app was released. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0160MG4WY Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Oct 9, 2015 |
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For now I tried to work with the Develooper Preview of FireOS5 on my FireTV-Stick. I optimized the ADB-Observation and created as an alternative a completely new non-ADB home-button detection with some disadvantages. Please read the changelog carefully and let me know if the features are working as described on your FireTVs, FireTV-Sticks and FireTV2s 
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After trying different things people have suggested elsewhere, like resetting to factory defaults, use wifi before using ethernet, I've given up. Called Amazon to get a replacement. Told the rep about mine locking up, freezing, etc. They researched the issue for 5-10 minutes, told me that it's been a problem. They're sending a new one out, and hopefully the new one will make my fire tv dreams come true.
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$25 off the new Fire TV at Staples. http://www.aftvnews.com/2nd-gen-fire-tv-or-gaming-edition-are-25-off-at-staples-with-printable-coupon/
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Oct 11, 2015 03:38
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Well I have to say, it was pretty easy to get the new FTV up and running with Kodi following the guides at aftvnews.com. The only slight bummer is there's currently no way to put a Kodi shortcut on the home screen. Hoping someone figures out a way, but for now, the new Firestarter app allows you to configure double-clicking the home button to launch anything you want so I just set it to Kodi.
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Oct 13, 2015 14:31
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This is interesting. quote:All employees in Amazon’s hardware division are being asked to take a new Fire TV home and participate in software testing and reporting. I’m told there are currently about 500 people in this pool of Fire TV testers. Each one is given nightly tasks to test new software and is reporting their findings back to the Fire TV team the following day. http://www.aftvnews.com/amazon-is-diverting-all-new-fire-tv-stock-to-massive-internal-testing-pool-for-bug-fixing-effort/ Hopefully the wifi remote will get some major improvements. I tried a family member's and it's way behind the bluetooth remote from the first generation. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the lag complaints in early reviews were actually remote issues from it being so non-responsive. Strangely the wifi controller works perfectly. In app news, Firestarter's up to v3.1.1 and Shantae & the Pirate's Curse, Final Fantasy III/IV, Jackbox 2 & Minecraft: Story Mode have been released. The current rumor is if you buy something from Amazon through the Amazon Android app, they'll give you $25 in appstore credit. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Oct 20, 2015 |
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Oct 20, 2015 17:00
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UK Sideloading quetison; How's Now TV on the Fire TV? Is it worth the massive hassle I'm having trying to get the APK?
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ConanThe3rd posted:UK Sideloading quetison; If you have an Android phone or tablet, you should be able to transfer the APK with AGK Fire http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-sideload-apps-onto-an-amazon-fire-tv-or-fire-tv-stick-using-an-android-phone-or-tablet/
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Just did it and they block it on an app level. Immediately cancelled my now tv account. gently caress them.
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Interesting article on the delay of the shopping feature.quote:The Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick have had the ability to shop Amazon.com products for some time, but the feature has been sitting dormant. A trusted source within Amazon, who wishes to remain anonymous, tells me a full-fledged shopping feature was nearly complete and ready to be tested in the wild, but Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos pulled the feature after receiving a demo. His biggest complaint was the limited shopping cart functionality. The Fire TV shopping feature demoed to Bezos allowed customers to either buy products immediately via Amazon’s 1-Click feature or add items to your Amazon shopping cart to then be purchased later through the Amazon.com website. Bezos insisted on the ability to manage your shopping cart and checkout on the Fire TV itself, so the shopping feature has been postponed. I’m told it’s not uncommon for a team within Amazon to work on something, get it mostly done, and then have the feature/project pulled or cancelled by Bezos. While the Fire TV’s full-fledged shopping feature likely won’t be released in time for the upcoming holiday shopping season, Amazon has started using parts of the shopping feature to allow Fire TV owners to buy select products through banner ads on the Fire TV’s home screen. http://www.aftvnews.com/amazon-shopping-partially-available-on-fire-tv-with-full-shopping-feature-postponed/ I guess that describes the end game of the Fire TV outside of making Amazon services more accessible. A shopping box for grandma complete with a (also rumored to be in the works) 24 hour live shopping network. __________ And firmware 5.0.3 should be very coming soon if the reports on XDA are true.
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You know, they should add the ability to pair a bluetooth speaker to the FireTV so you can use Alexa and the voice remote even if you aren't on the FireTV input for your TV/Receiver.
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Oct 26, 2015 21:50
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bull3964 posted:You know, they should add the ability to pair a bluetooth speaker to the FireTV so you can use Alexa and the voice remote even if you aren't on the FireTV input for your TV/Receiver. They want you to buy an Echo though.
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Oct 26, 2015 23:36
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Vykk.Draygo posted:They want you to buy an Echo though. I have an Echo. All it makes me want to do is get Alexa in more rooms. I'm kinda surprised they didn't add a speaker to the new remote for Alexa responses only.
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Oct 27, 2015 00:02
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Call Me Charlie posted:I have an Echo. All it makes me want to do is get Alexa in more rooms. I'm surprised that Amazon doesn't have a way to extend the Echo to other rooms. Surely they don't expect you to buy multiple Echos. Maybe they'll do it your way for the third gen Fire TVs.
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Vykk.Draygo posted:I'm surprised that Amazon doesn't have a way to extend the Echo to other rooms. Surely they don't expect you to buy multiple Echos. Maybe they'll do it your way for the third gen Fire TVs. Their launch commercial made it seem as though there was one in every room. If I could get another one for $99 I think I would. For the current price I think it needs better audio quality. What I'd also like is to be able to use Echo to control other devices from elsewhere in the house so that when I move between rooms the music or show I want is already queued up at my destination.
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The Dude posted:Their launch commercial made it seem as though there was one in every room. If I could get another one for $99 I think I would. For the current price I think it needs better audio quality. What I'd also like is to be able to use Echo to control other devices from elsewhere in the house so that when I move between rooms the music or show I want is already queued up at my destination. That was one of the first things I requested. It makes no sense that I can't start music in my kitchen and move it to my Fire TV or vise versa. Considering that Alexa on the Fire OS 5 is slated to get the ability to open apps, it would be awesome if I issue remote commands from a different device (or even from the Echo app/website)
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I know there's some Final Fantasy fans in here.quote:Square Enix, creators of the award winning Final Fantasy role-playing game series, will be sequentially discounting the four Final Fantasy games available for the Fire TV. Starting today with Final Fantasy III, each week a different Final Fantasy game will be reduced from its regular price of $15.99 to $7.99. When one sale ends, the next game in the series will then go on sale. All games are compatible with both the 1st and 2nd-gen Fire TV. The exact sale dates will be as follows: Final Fantasy III is currently $7.99 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...HG2YNR4N46VQLH3 And another firmware update is on the way. quote:Amazon will start pushing out another software update to 2nd generation Fire TVs in the next few days. This new update comes just a week after the last one began rolling out and carries version number 5.0.3.1_user_534011720. Don’t worry if your Fire TV hasn’t received software version 5.0.3 yet. Even though Amazon has switched to incremental updates, it’s fine if your Fire TV skips straight to version 5.0.3.1.
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X-Ray is a really cool feature, but I'm ready to give up on the new Amazon TV. The apps perform way worse than their equivalent on my 2013 Samsung smart TV. Hulu is the worst culprit. We always start out watching things on the Amazon TV and end up having to switch because of weird volume issues or buffering.
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The Plex app is barely serviceable compared to it's counterpart on other OS'. Constant studdering, and depending on the movie, I have to constantly switch between the regular and experimental players in the options. Some will not have any sound, so I have to switch. Others will studder like crazy, so I have to switch. The app on my iPad is silky smooth and never has any issues playing anything. I'm desperately waiting for a new/faster Stick, or I may just pull the trigger on one of the new ATVs.
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Oct 29, 2015 21:57
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Yep. I experience the same with the stick. Even bought a new wireless AP to try to mitigate it. Glad to know it's not just me.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:The Plex app is barely serviceable compared to it's counterpart on other OS'. Constant studdering, and depending on the movie, I have to constantly switch between the regular and experimental players in the options. Some will not have any sound, so I have to switch. Others will studder like crazy, so I have to switch. Plex app on Fire TV has an extremely limited amount of codecs so it has to transcode most things. You'd be way better off giving PleXBMC a try (but be sure to turn off MediaCodec under Hardware Acceleration in Kodi) Or you could give Emby a try https://emby.media/ Droid Washington posted:X-Ray is a really cool feature, but I'm ready to give up on the new Amazon TV. The apps perform way worse than their equivalent on my 2013 Samsung smart TV. Hulu is the worst culprit. We always start out watching things on the Amazon TV and end up having to switch because of weird volume issues or buffering. It's Android so try clearing the cache. I heard that clears up some of the issues in Hulu, at least temporarily. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Oct 29, 2015 |
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Yeah, but the transcoding is done on my Plex Server, right? The Stick isn't actually doing anything. My PC is definitely sufficient for the heavy-lifting.
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Call Me Charlie posted:And another firmware update is on the way. Yup, and they broke HDMI stuff again, so I'm constantly resetting my Fire TV. Ugh! This is with a Samsung TV (i.e. name brand) bought from Amazon, even.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Yeah, but the transcoding is done on my Plex Server, right? The Stick isn't actually doing anything. My PC is definitely sufficient for the heavy-lifting. Beyond the potential problem of your computer not transcoding fast enough, you could expand the cache in Kodi which could potentially smooth out playback. Direct play was always more stable for me than transcoding. Hadlock posted:Yup, and they broke HDMI stuff again, so I'm constantly resetting my Fire TV. Ugh! This is with a Samsung TV (i.e. name brand) bought from Amazon, even. What issue is that? Some type of handshake issue?
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Has anybody had issues with the bluetooth controller staying paired with the Fire TV? Ours was rock solid until this week, and all of a sudden the remote wouldn't respond. I thought it might be dead batteries, so I swapped them out and have only successfully been able to pair the remote once since then and it promptly stopped working again hours later. I'm kind of at a loss on this, but thought I would ask here, before contacting Amazon.
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Falco posted:Has anybody had issues with the bluetooth controller staying paired with the Fire TV? Ours was rock solid until this week, and all of a sudden the remote wouldn't respond. I thought it might be dead batteries, so I swapped them out and have only successfully been able to pair the remote once since then and it promptly stopped working again hours later. I'm kind of at a loss on this, but thought I would ask here, before contacting Amazon. I'm having a similar issue with mine, but I haven't had time to troubleshoot other than swapping batteries. Please update if you find an answer.
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Tantalus posted:I'm having a similar issue with mine, but I haven't had time to troubleshoot other than swapping batteries. Please update if you find an answer. I've been fighting with it all week, and the moment I got on the phone with someone from Amazon, it started working. I'm not sure what the final trick was, but I restarted the Fire TV and while it was restarting I put new batteries in and then held the home button. Otherwise, i've been using my phone as a controller using the app. Hopefully this helps you, I'm still not sure what the final answer was.
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So is it at all possible to get Google Movies on the Fire TV? And I don't want to go dig up my Chromecast, and there's no way possible to get Amazon Prime on that. So really the only advantage this thing has over say, a Roku which I could also afford, is that I can sideload Kodi, which stutters on some files, and Plex stutters on others. And this was to replace my old as poo poo WDTV, which still works every time and plays every file no matter what. So why do I have anything really?
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What files are you getting stutter on? I've fed a couple of 15+ GB files through Kodi on my first gen FireTV without issue. Is it stutter, or buffering issues you're having?
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IMO, Roku may as well not have Google Play movies since the audio is 2 channel PCM.
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Hadlock posted:What files are you getting stutter on? I've fed a couple of 15+ GB files through Kodi on my first gen FireTV without issue. Sometimes on certain probably poorly encoded files it buffers. Hard line ethernet. And audio can at times not be 5.1 when it should be 5.1. I might get surround channels only. Or I might be confusing this with Plex. The old WDTV, despite being extremely bad at interfaces and streaming internet stuff, just played files with no issues.
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If it's a buffering issue, set the buffer size from 20MB to 900MB and the problem will dissapear. You have to ADB Push a tiny XML file to the FireTV with the new buffer value, it is pretty painless. That fixed my buffer issues even over wifi. edit: http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Modify_the_video_cache this is the contents of my advancedsettings.xml code:Hadlock fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Nov 1, 2015 |
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Is Hulu on the FireTV known to be universally lovely or something? My wife has apparently been having tons and tons of problems with it on the FireTV, so I dig up my old Xbox 360 from the garage and hook it up and it works like a champ, same wifi network, etc.
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Maneki Neko posted:Is Hulu on the FireTV known to be universally lovely or something? My wife has apparently been having tons and tons of problems with it on the FireTV, so I dig up my old Xbox 360 from the garage and hook it up and it works like a champ, same wifi network, etc. Stick? yes. We switched to no ads and it resolved a lot of our issues with it though. it's actually usable now.
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Falco posted:I've been fighting with it all week, and the moment I got on the phone with someone from Amazon, it started working. I'm not sure what the final trick was, but I restarted the Fire TV and while it was restarting I put new batteries in and then held the home button. Otherwise, i've been using my phone as a controller using the app. Hopefully this helps you, I'm still not sure what the final answer was. Still going strong? I just moved into a new place and as soon as I can find mine in all the boxes I'll test it out.
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Tantalus posted:Still going strong? I just moved into a new place and as soon as I can find mine in all the boxes I'll test it out. Yup like a charm. Good luck with yours, I hope it's just as simple.
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UFC finally released their app. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0175YDUL4/
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Maneki Neko posted:Is Hulu on the FireTV known to be universally lovely or something? My wife has apparently been having tons and tons of problems with it on the FireTV, so I dig up my old Xbox 360 from the garage and hook it up and it works like a champ, same wifi network, etc. Yes, Hulu is really bad on FireTV.
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Call Me Charlie posted:UFC finally released their app. Had no idea they offered this, I'm pumped. Very consumer friendly of them to do this. Any issues with blackouts or the like with NFL/NHL?
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Gyshall posted:Had no idea they offered this, I'm pumped. Very consumer friendly of them to do this. Any issues with blackouts or the like with NFL/NHL? Not that consumer friendly but it's something. Seems like most of the blackouts happen in other countries like Brazil. http://www.ufc.com/faq-ufctv-ufcfightpass
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