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General Tech => Operating System => Topic started by: nrael on December 30, 2015, 03:35:20 PM

Title: FireTV Stick + XBMC / Kodi
Post by: nrael on December 30, 2015, 03:35:20 PM

Does anyone own a Amazon FireTV Stick and installed XBMC on it? I've read about it and it looks really easy to install as XBMC / Kodi lets you download an ARM build. How is the speed maybe compared to a raspberry v2? Does anyone use it more often?

It sounds like a really nice way to watch / stream movies on a tv.

Title: Re: FireTV Stick + XBMC / Kodi
Post by: white-knight on December 30, 2015, 04:01:09 PM

The speed varies most of the time for me . never tried it on a pi tho ..


And its super simple to install now using file manager  all from fire stick

Title: Re: FireTV Stick + XBMC / Kodi
Post by: nrael on December 30, 2015, 06:28:55 PM

If I have movies as a file, how do I put them on it? Do I need to have like a NAS to get it over the LAN or can I add a external HD to it?

Title: Re: FireTV Stick + XBMC / Kodi
Post by: white-knight on December 30, 2015, 06:40:03 PM

i think the Fire tv you can add more space and files  but the stick is mainly streaming . Once you install kodi you pretty much just add programs to that like fusion tv  and stream anything you want .

Here maybe this will help you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv7OTNN0ifo

Title: Re: FireTV Stick + XBMC / Kodi
Post by: riptorrent on January 23, 2016, 06:38:23 PM

There are always the 1channel, navi-x, etc addons if you are interested in streaming. For sports I believe there is a firstrow plugin as well.

Title: Re: FireTV Stick + XBMC / Kodi
Post by: nrael on January 25, 2016, 07:00:22 PM

I have bought now one. KODI is easy to install (used adbFire). Kinda nice with auto startup function. Handling is as we now it. Runs pretty fast and solid. For best use you need a bluetooth keyboard. And I kinda miss the Volume keys on the controller. But cheap, fast and solid. I'd say the best would be to use it with netflix.