Anybody who has the FireTV Stick can tell me if I'm boutta make a good investment ?
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As long as I can still sideload apps, I'm good. I just assumed that you had to root the Fire TV/Fire TV stick to sideload 3rd party apps.
I just saw this article:
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The Nexus Player works with external storage and USB ethernet
By Phil Nickinson Friday, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:14 pm EST
An update to our Nexus Player review ...
Here's a quick update to our Nexus Player review, as we've continued to explore what the little Android TV puck can do. As a reminder, there are three ports on device. HDMI for getting audio and video into a TV (either directly or through a receiver; either works fine), a power port for the ASUS wall wart, and microUSB.
It's that last one that we've been experimenting with, and we've got some good news to report.
You'll recall that the Nexus Player is an 8-gigabyte device, and of that only about 5 gigabytes are available to you, the user, for installing apps and caching data and what not. That's not a lot — and given how large games can be, we'd love to see more storage available. That's where the microUSB port comes in.
I lose more USB OTG cables than I care to admit. So first I tried just plugging a microUSB flash drive into the Nexus Player directly. It's not the way I'd recommend doing things, as there's not much space back there. A USB OTA cable is the right way to do this. And regardless, I couldn't get the drive to show in a file explorer. Maybe it just wasn't plugged in all the way — again, it was a really tight fit — or maybe it was something else. (If someone smarter than me wants to weigh in on that, that's why we've got comments.) But plug in the drive with a USB OTG cable, and it's showing up just fine. I've played back an .mp4 file, .mp3 file and a .jpg image without issue. Cool.
There's a caveat here, of course. As of right now there are no file explorers visible to the Nexus Player in the Google Play, as you see it on the device. You can, however, sideload to your heart's content, or find apps that are compatible in Google Play in a web browser and install that way. And then you'll have to hope that the app you're trying out can handle not having touch input. There's also no visible way to move apps over to the external storage, but that's not surprising in the least.
Point is, we're really just seeing what works right now. The Nexus Player out of the box isn't really set up to do this in a traditional consumer sense. Will Google change that? Who knows. I wouldn't bet on it.
Other USB peripherals work fine — my Apple keyboard worked without issue, and you can use a mouse, too, if that's how you roll. Of course, now you're working with traditional computer peripherals with what's supposed to be a TV entertainment box, but you go, girl.
And then there's USB ethernet. The Nexus Player lacks a proper ethernet port like its ADT-1 brethren and instead is Wifi-only. That is, unless you use a USB-ethernet adapter. It was as simple as plugging one in. The Nexus Player took care of the rest, automatically disconnecting Wifi and running off ethernet.
Maybe not exactly how Google intends us to use the Nexus Player, but it's nice to know we've got options.
The Nexus Player works with external storage and USB ethernet
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I love consumer tech news...
I have both the fire tv n box hacked and they are saving my life over here in Japan brehs. I watch everything free including live sports I'd be lost without them.
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Firetv is buggy as shyt BUT a the Hulu and Netflix apps run better vs. Roku 3 (and Roku 2 XD). I have chromecast too, but it runs better off my iPhone 6 than my iPhone 5s even though they both run ios9 beta. My Note 4 doesn't even recognize my chromecast...
detroitwalt
Superstar
You can't put Kodi on the Roku can you? That's why I'd put fire tv above them all. I gave both my roku and my chrome cast away. Only reason I kept Apple TV is for AirPlay.
I don't have any issues with the fire stick crashing or anything
I don't have any issues with the fire stick crashing or anything
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Mines gotten better when my ISP upgraded the speeds. Kodi is sooooo amazing!
My Coli brethren for teaching me the ways of Kodi. (I also got my Fire stick for $19 due to the Coli brehs)
West Coast Avenger
West Coastin & Smokin
Fire tv stick w/ kodi>>>....that shyt has everything.....and you don't have to pay for anything...live tv streams work fine...you just have to be running with a great connection...
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When they first came out they were $19 for Amazon Prime members pre-orderHow?
@Lux @CashmereEsquire Does the FireTV stick have expandeble storage or is that only the regular Fire TV?
