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bafangul Wrote:
To others who wanted to quickly access XBMC from Fire TV menu, I used Llama to start XBMC whenever I start Flixter. I installed Flixter via Amazon App Store. That way it shows up on the FTV main menu. When I click Flixter, it auto starts XBMC. It's a work around until a shortcut is officially approved. (I got this idea from a much earlier post. But after 193 pages, I forgot the posters name. No disrespect for sharing your idea.).
This is great news. But how do I go about using an app (Flixter) to launch XBMC. The steps necessary for doing this would be invaluable to me and others who would love to be able to launch XBMC from the Fire TV homescreen. Thanks in advance.
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2014-05-27, 05:04
(This post was last modified: 2014-05-27, 05:05 by derrickrozay.)
Couple of questions
1) How do I SSH into the FTV using my mac? I have filezilla installed what are the username and pw?
2) Can I make my own keymap instead of using one of the preconfigured ones?
3) Do I use FTP/SSH to send the keymap to the FTV?
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I remember somebody on here saying that they got the home button on the fire tv remote to launch XBMC but I forgot to bookmark it does anybody know how I could do it?
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(2014-05-27, 00:25)LazerBlue Wrote: [quote='Snowball' pid='1719882' dateline='1401087518']
HI there,
two questions:
1. I tried to stream a movie (The Wolf of Wall Street, 23GB version) from my PC using Wifi connection. The streaming is not perfect. I have a lot of buffering problems (depending on the bitrate, I guess).
Am I doing something wrong or it is normal for a system like Amazon Fire Tv?
2. I tried to make a second attempt using LAN cable, but connecting the cable to Amazon Fire TV it doens't recognize it automatically. I have to manually put all the info. I tried to give it IP, Gateway, DNS,... but no luck. Any hint?
Thanks for help.
1. Finally I found someone that has the same problem as I got
I got a lot of buffering problems. It seems that the router understands the XBMC as a separate device and Fire TV as a separate device (hope i put this correctly). Whenever I use WatchESPN live, I have to turn off the XBMC app in order to watch ESPN smoothly, otherwise it's just blurry even though my download speed is 30Mps.
Even streaming local contents can get a lot of bufferings. I modifed the file advancedsettings.xml and push it in the Fire TV to let it cache the video for a little so the problem is kinda solved. Hopefully there's will be a better way of doing this.