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Fire TV - Initial Impressions from an ATV User - SandmanCL - 2014-07-16 I've been running XBMC on the 2nd generation Apple TV since it was first possible. And I've been ok with it. It's been slow at times, but I haven't really realized what I've been missing out on. A week or so ago I received my Fire TV and yesterday I decided to dive into the world of Fire TV "hacking", and by following the documentation here I had XBMC running in about 15 minutes. I pushed a custom version of sources.xml and advancedsettings.xml with shared mysql library settings to the Fire TV and had my full library available shortly thereafter. And: This thing is so slick ! The provided remote is excellent and it is very responsive. I get associations to the early days of the responsiveness of the Xbox w/ a very light skin. Navigating around using the default confluence skin is so fluid and enjoyable, and I even gave some of the heavier skins a try. The Kindle Fire TV seems like it's tailored to us XBMC users ! So far I'm still launching XBMC via the Fire TV Settings menu, clearly not ideal but I can live with that for now while I try out some of the suggested workarounds. Oh, and a neat thing: While watching a movie or TV show in XBMC, I can press the Microphone button, say "Netflix" and launch Netflix with a few clicks. When I exit out of Netflix I'm back in XBMC where the video I was watching is still on the screen, paused Thanks to everyone involved in bringing XBMC to this new device ! Wishlist for Santa: - A new remote which will keep the responsiveness of the Fire TV remote but provide a few extra buttons for volume, Info, etc. - Voice search within XBMC (I know this is not possible at the moment, but I'm allowed to dream, right ?) - XBMC launchable by saying "xbmc" RE: Fire TV - Initial Impressions from an ATV User - atv2jber - 2014-07-16 You might want to have a look at this thread on XDA. ;-) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2790392 Regards. RE: Fire TV - Initial Impressions from an ATV User - hdmkv - 2014-07-16 And this right here on XBMC forum. Plus this. RE: Fire TV - Initial Impressions from an ATV User - sams0n - 2014-07-17 you should set up the llama/classic tv thing to launch from the main menu. only takes 10 minutes or so to set it up. http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Amazon_Fire_TV#Launch_XBMC_from_an_Existing_App_on_the_FTV_Home_Screen RE: Fire TV - Initial Impressions from an ATV User - SandmanCL - 2014-07-21 I now have "XBMC for Fire TV" as my launcher, and can start Netflix, Hulu, Youtube and Pandora from the XBMC home screen. Whenever I am running anything from the Fire TV launcher, clicking the home button takes me right back to where I left XBMC. Things are getting closer and closer to perfect Does anyone know if it's possible to map the Home button to always go back to the XBMC home screen ? Right now, the Home button does not do anything when I'm already in XBMC. RE: Fire TV - Initial Impressions from an ATV User - Horasad - 2015-11-15 Firmware version 1.09 http://www.mediafire.com/download/abmv9588v222k3e/update+1.0.9.zip |