[Meyeone]

I have great news I just picked up a Amazon Fire TV Stick and XBMC/Kodi works Awesome I used an app called FTV for windows and it side loaded Gotham 3.2 with no problem.

Im not getting any lag and 1080P Video streamed just fine with ******* Add-on I'm getting 30fps. Audio was fine not out of sync. My friend bought a M8 the other day and this Fire Stick works so much better. Note: The Amazon Fire Stick needs an external power supply 5v 1amp what I did is used my Tv's usb and it powered the Fire stick with no issues.

Note: the Amazon Fire stick Wi-Fi is AC duel band and I used my 5ghz wireless conection on my router and on Comcast and I was getting 125mbs download. It might be kinda choppy on 2.4ghz but i haven't tried.
For $39 US Dollars it's a steal.

Ps I need some help guys ********

I just wanted to bring the good news to you ALL
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MOD EDIT: please don't mention or discuss add-ons that violate the forum rules (wiki).

[Meyeone]

2 months ago I purchased the RADXA PRO it worked alright with XBMC I had audio sync issues with it. The Amazon Fire Stick worked Awesome I'm amazed at the size and how well it plays 1080P video with 1gig ram and a duel core cpu. The menu in XBMC does not feel laggy at all. I'm going to buy couple of more Fire Sticks for the other Tv's in the house. One thing I noticed is I can't enable Deinterlance video

This is how you install XBMC-KODI on the Amazon Fire TV Stick

Enable USB Debugging on the Fire TV
From the Fire TV Home screen, select Settings
Go to System -> Developer Options
Enable both the ADB Debugging and the Apps from Unknown Sources options.
Go to System -> About -> Network, and take note of the Fire TV's IP address

Window users:
Download The Latest XBMC 'ARM ' Android from http://kodi.tv/download/ save it to your desktop or a folder you like. Then use the app below. If you can't connect using your ip just put your default router IP example (192.168.1.1) instead that worked for me.

2.1.6 Amazon FireTV Utility App
A Windows based GUI app to easily sideload your apks to the Amazon FTV. Most of the wiki has been automated into this app so anyone that doesn’t want to mess around with Shell commands will find this helpful.
Download website link: http://goo.gl/woVu0s
1. Unzip the folders to "C:\FTV"
2. Launch app "Amazon FireTV Utility App.exe"

Other OS methods go here for instructions. > http://kodi.wiki/view/Amazon_Fire_TV



Enjoy

[Warus]

Are you able to watch Live-TV?

[joseacevedo]

I have one and live tv plays just fine

[Warus]

Hmm. I have an HD Homerun Dual and Tvheadend backend on another server.. I get the channels but when I play the channel I get a HTSP error. I can watch the channels as a video just fine..
I have a question posted here if you or anyone has ideas..don't want to hijack this thread.

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=210553

[wrxtasy]

I have one and live tv plays just fine

I'm very sceptical, (it will likely have the same problems as its big brother the Amazon Fire TV Box)

mpeg2 or mpeg4 live TV broadcast, and and is the live stream interlaced ?

How does de-interlacing perform during fast moving sports action on Live TV, particularily with Hardware acceleration enabled ?

Any tearing or horizontal lines present when the camera pans left <==> right ?

[Warus]

Success!! I have a perfectly functioning LiveTV on the Amazon FireTV and Fire Stick.
My issue was the old system (Openelec) was still trying to capture the HD Homeruns attention while I was trying to use it on the Fire. Once I disabled Live TV on my Openelec system.. the fire units played as they should.

Thanks for everyones help.

[gregh77]

How does it work on 720p files? I heard not so well....

[Ned Scott]

720 and 1080 mpeg2 works just fine on the Fire TV Stick. Doesn't crash like on the Fire TV Box, either.

No hardware de-interlacing for now. I don't know if I'm just not noticing it, or it's being masked by the 1080 signal being viewed on a 720 TV, but what I saw today looked great and very watchable.

I'll throw a Stick on the 1080 TV in the living room when no one is using it and see how it looks there. I'm thinking the 720 TV is also making the weird quality drop under XBMC/Kodi less noticeable as well, so I'll have a few reasons to test it on the better TV.

[wrxtasy]

Sounds slightly encouraging

[Calum]

2 months ago I purchased the RADXA PRO it worked alright with XBMC I had audio sync issues with it. The Amazon Fire Stick worked Awesome I'm amazed at the size and how well it plays 1080P video with 1gig ram and a duel core cpu. The menu in XBMC does not feel laggy at all. I'm going to buy couple of more Fire Sticks for the other Tv's in the house. One thing I noticed is I can't enable Deinterlance video

This is how you install XBMC-KODI on the Amazon Fire TV Stick

Enable USB Debugging on the Fire TV
From the Fire TV Home screen, select Settings
Go to System -> Developer Options
Enable both the ADB Debugging and the Apps from Unknown Sources options.
Go to System -> About -> Network, and take note of the Fire TV's IP address

Window users:
Download The Latest XBMC 'ARM ' Android from http://kodi.tv/download/ save it to your desktop or a folder you like. Then use the app below. If you can't connect using your ip just put your default router IP example (192.168.1.1) instead that worked for me.

2.1.6 Amazon FireTV Utility App
A Windows based GUI app to easily sideload your apks to the Amazon FTV. Most of the wiki has been automated into this app so anyone that doesn’t want to mess around with Shell commands will find this helpful.
Download website link: http://goo.gl/woVu0s
1. Unzip the folders to "C:\FTV"
2. Launch app "Amazon FireTV Utility App.exe"

Other OS methods go here for instructions. > http://kodi.wiki/view/Amazon_Fire_TV



Enjoy

Any chance you could expand on those instructions? I've downloaded the app, unziped it, and launched the .exe file, connected to my fire tv sticks IP address, downloaded the .apk file to my computer and selected it, and selected the version of kodi that I downloaded, and selected install 3rd party application. Nothing happens. The "install 3rd party application" does nothing, and there's no start/apply/go button. How do I tell it to install the app?

[canadave]

720 and 1080 mpeg2 works just fine on the Fire TV Stick. Doesn't crash like on the Fire TV Box, either.

Why is THAT, I wonder? Wouldn't the box be less likely to crash compared to the "lower spec" stick?

[Ned Scott]

They have different chips for the video decoding, so I'm guessing one set of hardware triggers the bug while the other doesn't.

[BigB42078]

2 months ago I purchased the RADXA PRO it worked alright with XBMC I had audio sync issues with it. The Amazon Fire Stick worked Awesome I'm amazed at the size and how well it plays 1080P video with 1gig ram and a duel core cpu. The menu in XBMC does not feel laggy at all. I'm going to buy couple of more Fire Sticks for the other Tv's in the house. One thing I noticed is I can't enable Deinterlance video

This is how you install XBMC-KODI on the Amazon Fire TV Stick

Enable USB Debugging on the Fire TV
From the Fire TV Home screen, select Settings
Go to System -> Developer Options
Enable both the ADB Debugging and the Apps from Unknown Sources options.
Go to System -> About -> Network, and take note of the Fire TV's IP address

Window users:
Download The Latest XBMC 'ARM ' Android from http://kodi.tv/download/ save it to your desktop or a folder you like. Then use the app below. If you can't connect using your ip just put your default router IP example (192.168.1.1) instead that worked for me.

2.1.6 Amazon FireTV Utility App
A Windows based GUI app to easily sideload your apks to the Amazon FTV. Most of the wiki has been automated into this app so anyone that doesn’t want to mess around with Shell commands will find this helpful.
Download website link: http://goo.gl/woVu0s
1. Unzip the folders to "C:\FTV"
2. Launch app "Amazon FireTV Utility App.exe"

Other OS methods go here for instructions. > http://kodi.wiki/view/Amazon_Fire_TV



Enjoy

Any chance you could expand on those instructions? I've downloaded the app, unziped it, and launched the .exe file, connected to my fire tv sticks IP address, downloaded the .apk file to my computer and selected it, and selected the version of kodi that I downloaded, and selected install 3rd party application. Nothing happens. The "install 3rd party application" does nothing, and there's no start/apply/go button. How do I tell it to install the app?

Download adbfire it's a little easier to understand plus it has as status bar to show it's working.
http://www.jocala.com/adbfire.html

[Calum]

Any chance you could expand on those instructions? I've downloaded the app, unziped it, and launched the .exe file, connected to my fire tv sticks IP address, downloaded the .apk file to my computer and selected it, and selected the version of kodi that I downloaded, and selected install 3rd party application. Nothing happens. The "install 3rd party application" does nothing, and there's no start/apply/go button. How do I tell it to install the app?

Download adbfire it's a little easier to understand plus it has as status bar to show it's working.
http://www.jocala.com/adbfire.html

Thanks. I ended up trying that to but they both just hang. I ended up doing it all manually.

Edit: I tried adbfire again this morning, and it installed kodi just fine, took about 2 minutes. Last night I gave it several minutes and nothing happened.