I just purchased a new Amazon Fire TV 50-inch Omni QLED series 4K UHD smart TV.

Before I purchased it, I read that you can install a webcam and use Zoom on it.

However, I've tried plugging in a Logitech Brio Webcam (in fact I've tried two different units) and the webcam remains undetected. No sign of life!

Doe anyone have any tips or instructions to get it working?

Thanks!

Hi all - pretty simple one I hope. Can't seem to find anything about. I want to be able to put the Microsoft Remote Desktop app on my firestick and it isn't native to the appstore. Is it possible?

Sorry if this is a known issue. I have lived in my apartment for five years and just recently Alexa on my Firetv cube is responding to nobody. The other morning It was dead silent and I was the only one home and out of nowhere she said “ok” and turned the tv on. Is there a ghost? Or a malfunctioning Alexa?

Is this correct? Shield outputs up to 12 bits, but on the fire tv, no matter what option I select in settings, it sticks at 8 bit.

Hi,

I just got the 32-in ONN Soundbar from walmart. I connected it to a TV using the headphone jack port. I can hear audio through it but when I try to get the fire stick remote to turn it on and off, it doesn't do anything. The remote that came with the Soundbar works just fine. I went into equipment control and chose add equipment. I then chose Soundbar and found o n n in the list and selected that. I went through the little wizard thing but When I press the power button on the fire stick remote it doesn't do anything. Eventually it says there must be a problem and I should try again later.

Does anyone have this sound bar working with your fire stick remote? I'm not sure if something I have is defected or if they're just not compatible.

Is there any difference in the remote compatibility if I'm using an older fire stick? I have a remote that has the volume up and down and mute buttons vertical on the bottom half of the remote and the microphone and power buttons up at the top.

Thanks

I’ve tried multiple different remotes and the only one that works is my remote that goes to my tv. I don’t know what to do

Hi, I just purchased a fire tv cube 3rd gen, and when I ask it to play Spotify it turns the TV on and plays on the TV.

Is it possible to listen to Spotify on the cube speaker like the echo dots?

Hi. I sometimes use the Silk browser on my Fire TV stick with my tv. Separately, on my Android phone, I'm signed into my Amazon account but there's no Silk browser on the phone, it only shows that I bought the app. I was just wondering, do any files, videos, pictures, text from browsed history/content or any references of browsing from the Silk Browser on the Fire TV stick get onto my phone via the amazon account or is it separate and all just stays on the Fire TV stick? I only ask because of being signed into my Amazon account on my phone so was wondering if my Amazon account sees everything, but at the same time I assume as there's no Silk Browser installed on the phone that it can't be possible for anything to be transferred or synced to the phone? Or does everything from the Fire TV stick go to the Cloud and not other hardware devices?

I use silk browser and for example if I go to thetvapp dot to I can't scroll past channel 10 but there's 100 more channels beneath it that I can't see....no way to scroll past 10. I even tried the request desktop site option but I still can't scroll past 10....anyway to fix this? Thank yoy

I have some extra monitors that I wanted to hang on the wall in my office along with some firesticks to display things like a Digital Calendar, weather, clocks, sports tickers, news tickers, artwork, etc.... What are your goto apps for this type of use?

I have a Toshiba Amazon Fire TV. I looked in display settings and held down the home button. I can't find the option to allow it. Please help. I found another archived post on here about it, and nothing on there helped.

Once I have the apk downloaded onto my tv, what then?

ProjectM is a music visualizer that creates colorful moving patterns on your screen. It is supposed to be responsive to your audio playing. I found that on my devices, it was not responding to the music without going through the process detailed in this thread. I wanted it to work with Pandora. The process below may or may not work with other sources of audio streaming.

ProjectM It is available as an app for purchase on the app store. However, when I first installed it, it was not responding to the music. This thread contains the fix. Two other threads when taken together, contain most of the information you need but it is not in any one place. One thread I found by Google searching and the second was referred to me by the ProjectM developers on Github. Here are those two threads. Credit where credit is due.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fireTV/comments/l3h5n4/fix_solution_to_projectm_music_visualizer_not/

https://community.hueessentials.com/t/how-to-use-dance-sensation-and-disco-on-amazon-fire-tv/499 (same process but for another app)

My discussion with the ProjectM developers is here:

https://github.com/orgs/projectM-visualizer/discussions/850#discussioncomment-11388507

I am writing this to "memorialize" my work and try to put the complete process in one place.

Caution: The process required to turn on music response for ProjectM required sending commands from a computer to your Firestick. This is sort of an advanced procedure so the "average" user may or may not want to attempt it.

1. Install ProjectM on your Firestick. You can use the DOWN button to bring up a menu that can control your audio player and select or lock the visualization type (There are many built in)

2. Turn on ADB degbugging on your Firestick: Settings/My Fire TV/Developer Options/ ADB Debugging/ON. If you don't see Developer Options as an option you have to turn it on by pressing SELECT 7 times. At least that worked on my devices and I've done this on three now.

3. Install ADB on a computer that is on the same LAN as your Firestick. For Windows, download ADB here:

https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools-latest-windows.zip

Unzip it somewhere convenient and you will have a folder called "platform-tools". Open an Explorer window for that folder. Hold down Shift and right click your mouse with no file selected. You should get a pop-up men from which you can select "Open PowerShell" (or maybe Command prompt depending on your version of windows).

Instructions for installing ADB in Mac or Linux are in that second link I posed above.

IMPORTANT: I found I had to put "./" in front of any ADB commands. The references above don't show that. I think if you run a Path command, you don't need the ./ but I used ./

4. Now you need to connect your computer to your Firestick. Here is the command

./adb connect YOUR_FIRE_IP:5555 (replace YOUR_FIRE_IP with your Firestick's actual IP address. )

You can get your Firestick's IP from Settings/My Fire TV/About/ Network

You will (probably) have to approve the connection request on your TV screen. I got a pop-up on my TV and I checked the box that said "Always allow connection from this computer"

If you want, you can check that you are connected with this command

./ADB Devices ( If you do not see the IP address of your TV and “device”, it was not connected properly.)

5. Now you can send the command that will make ProjectM respond to your Audio

./adb shell pm grant com.psperl.projectMTV android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO

6. Test it now by running Pandora. The press Home on your Fire remote and start ProjectM. Press Down to bring up the ProjectM menu and pause your audio. You should see a change in the display. Most of the visualizations don't stop completely and some are more obvious than others with respect to the music response.

NOTE: If your Audio stops when you press Home, you may need to turn off Ambient Environment. I had to do this on one of my Firesticks (a 4k Max). Pandora has to keep running in the background when you go to start ProjectM.

7. Clean up by sending this ADB command

./adb kill-server

and turn off ADB Debugging on your Firestick

That should do it.

I’m cutely running iOS 18.2 beta and I think that could be the issue as I’m also struggling with my HomePod voice recognition which Apple support did say could be the issue.

Hi, I just replaced my Fire TV Stick 4K max with a newer version connected to my Sharp Soundbar for Dolby Atmos sound. With my revious stick , the info banner ( see picture ' HDMI 3 / ARC'....) would disapear after 10s, with the new one it stays constantly unless I change SURROUND SOUND option from BEST AVAILABLE to PCM or DOLBY. Does anyone know how to make it disapear? I checked the cables, turned off TV, soundbar etc....nothing works. When I put back the old firetv it works fine, just not with the new one.

https://preview.redd.it/988e7sihge4e1.jpg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=07a12196077437428f188368bad80063caa3e27e

I have a Quest 3 and I would like to broadcast the content on a TV with a firestick.

Airscreen works for a few minutes but requires a fee. I can't find any other option?

I recently bought a 4k firetv. I used to have a Roku tv which had video screensavers like an aquarium or Roku city that plays on a loop. I tried finding something similar but fire tv only seems to have pictures mixed in with mostly ads. Am I looking in the wrong place? any help would be appreciated 🙏

(Edit: As I’m looking for info about this, I have the screen saver playing in the back. It’s all ads, not a single picture of a landscape)

On my remote and firestick remote app the back button doesn't work.

I have reset firestick unpaired and repaired remote and reinstalled firestick app. Unplugged firestick..

The fact that it does it on the remote and app is weird.

Any ideas. Gonna go get my chrome's from upstairs and use a quality product. Not this amazon shite

Hello, as per title. I am passing the Shield through the HDMI in of the Fire TV cube and every now and then, seemingly at random, audio from the shield cuts out during playback. Playback continues and when the audio resumes it is not out of sync. The AVR does not show any drops (like a change of codec, or mute). Tried with different cables, it's the same. Any clue?

Does anybody know, if the FireTV Cube (3rd gen) has a Zigbee-Hub? Some sites say, that it has a hub and some don't.

Screencast from Android to Fire TV works flawlessly. I can connect, disconnect, connect again, etc.

Screencast from Windows 11 laptop works *once*. After that, further connection attempts either cannot see the Fire TV or they simply timeout. I tried restarting PC and TV. Same result.

So then I went to another Windows 11 laptop and had exactly the same result. It too connected and screencasted successfully *once* and fails on subsequent attempts.

It is a *TV* problem, not a Windows problem! I reset my TV to factory defaults and I was again able to connect my PC *once* and after that the PC cannot see the TV.

Any work-arounds? Is there a way to debug a screencast attempt?

I just started the Mubi free trial. When I search for the app on my smart TV (Emerson), it pulls up two. When I choose the first one, it says "the app you are looking for can't be found." When I choose the second one, it takes me to Prime; but all the movies I want to watch on Mubi come up as "rent or buy" on Prime.

I’m getting a new fire tv device for Christmas but I don’t know which one to go for I’m looking at either the 4k max stick or the cube after doing some research they’re both 16GB with 2GB of RAM. Is there any reasons to pay more the extra for the fire cube or should I just get the stick thanks.

I have an Echo and a TV in the same general area. When I say, "Alexa, time," I want the ECHO to reply with the time. Sometimes the TV turns on and announces the time. I could live with the TV announcing the time, but I can't have the TV turning on as a side effect when I give a command to the Echo.

I know I could give the TV the wake-word "computer", but that's a word we use a LOT in our household, so it is a bad option.

How can I give a command to the Echo and have the TV *not* change its on/off status?

Set my Fire TV Cube (3rd Gen) display setting to use (1080p 60Hz). However, every time I power on the system it switches the display setting back to (Auto up to 4K). I don't want Fire TV Cube in 4K display mode due to monthly data usage capacity limits. 

What do I need to do to have the Fire TV Cube remember the desired display setting?

I’ve been trying to connect echo to the soundbar from the Alexa app but the soundbar isn’t showing up. Any ideas?

Summary: If Nokia and Amazon can’t come to an agreement on patent licensing fees, this has the potential to expand into a multinational ban on Fire TV sales.

If you’re planning on buying a new Fire TV device, you may as well lock in and purchase them during the current sales. If you wait for too long you may not be able to purchase one later.

https://www.aftvnews.com/nokia-granted-the-ability-to-stop-fire-tv-sales-in-germany/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-20/amazon-fire-tv-stick-sales-in-germany-at-risk-after-court-ruling

https://www.nokia.com/blog/nokia-seeks-compensation-for-amazons-use-of-our-patented-multimedia-inventions/

I’ve always preferred Android/Google TV devices, but i came across this news a short while ago. I thought people who prefer to use Fire TV devices would like to know this.

This Black Friday I bought an Omni QLED Fire TV and an Fire TV Soundbar. You would think connection between these two devices would be pretty straight forward and stable. But I'm having an issue when I play my Xbox Series S. Every few minutes the screen goes black for a couple of seconds and the volume bar pops up on the top of the screen.

The soundbar is connected to the tv via the HDMI-ARC port and the Xbox Series S is connected via the normal HDMI. Anyone know of a cause and/or fix for this? Thanks.