2015-10-26, 16:06
ok, KODI installed and running on my 6-month old Fire TV Stick, watched several great movies sunday after skulling through and mashing three or four published articles' incomplete instructions all Saturday afternoon/evening that assumed i knew way more than i did.
So, the FTV stick initially "lost the Wifi signal" once or twice in the middle of a couple movies (truly annoying), causing KODI to have playback failure, causing me to have to unplug/reset the FTV stick a couple times, and once even had to shut down and restart my wifi unit to get everything back up and running (the why of the latter is beyond me, wife did it, and it worked). sometimes seems like rote voodoo to me.
according to the techie wife, apparently the stick does not like the 1080 HD movie signal running through KODI (explained in suitably condescending terms a retired lawyer can understand), as it gets rather VERY VERY WARM to the touch, which apparently causes the aforementioned problems. I was wondering about opening the unit and drilling the case for better cooling, or even adding a heat sink, but have no idea where or how to add one that would be effective (where is Radio Shack when you need them?!!).
anyone had similar problems, and and did you come up with a better/less potentially destructive solution?
So, the FTV stick initially "lost the Wifi signal" once or twice in the middle of a couple movies (truly annoying), causing KODI to have playback failure, causing me to have to unplug/reset the FTV stick a couple times, and once even had to shut down and restart my wifi unit to get everything back up and running (the why of the latter is beyond me, wife did it, and it worked). sometimes seems like rote voodoo to me.
according to the techie wife, apparently the stick does not like the 1080 HD movie signal running through KODI (explained in suitably condescending terms a retired lawyer can understand), as it gets rather VERY VERY WARM to the touch, which apparently causes the aforementioned problems. I was wondering about opening the unit and drilling the case for better cooling, or even adding a heat sink, but have no idea where or how to add one that would be effective (where is Radio Shack when you need them?!!).
anyone had similar problems, and and did you come up with a better/less potentially destructive solution?