r/fireTV

Live streaming doesn't work anymore. I've basically tried everything that either I or AI can come up with to troubleshoot. I can play local recordings, I can see the guide but I can't watch my channels through the live tv feature even while on my home network. Using a pixel 9 on Android 16. The handshake to authenticate my phone seems to be silently failing.

Anyone else run into the same thing?

I am having the most infuriating issue and no amount of searching has given me a result.

I have a Firestick plugged into my TV. I have an Audible account. I'd like to listen to audiobooks at night so there is a low level of noise for my infant and my mind can relax.

Every instruction I can find online tells me it's as simple as going to "apps", typing in "Audible", and clicking "get". Every single time I do this, nothing happens. And I mean nothing. Audible doesn't show up in the search. I don't even get as far as "get" because it's as if Audible doesn't exist.

I'm at the end of my rope. My partner gave it a go and he spoke into the remote "open Audible" and somehow AUDIBLE OPENED? So if it can be opened with a voice command, why can't I find it *WITHOUT* a voice command? I cannot use the voice commands without waking my kid up. What am I doing wrong? Why can't I find it? What is my missing link here?

For the love of god, please help a desperate 3 month postpartum mom of two who just wants to sleep while my TV broadcasts the verbal destruction of the One Ring.

I have a developmentally delayed child who we allow a couple hours of screen time after dinner. He is also Autistic and has high demands when watching his favorite shows. "Again mommy" and "again daddy" are heard over a hundred times in 2hrs., when he sees his favorite parts of a show. I want to give him the ability to rewind and play on his own, without the complexity of a typical FireTV remote (that has 30 buttons or whatever). In my head, this is a programmable 3 button remote with Rewind, Fast-Forward and Play. Does anything like this exist? I tried searching and was unable to find anything that met my search criteria entered and what's in my head for simplicity. I appreciate anyone's help!!

Ive boughten different tvs all varying in size and resolution, but ive noticed that if it runs Fire Tv, they might as well be trash. Any edit I do to the backlight or frame rate resets randomly. I press home while on youtube or netflix and the audio keeps playing. I open an app, it takes so long to open. I open Silk Internet and its extremely laggy 1 fps and it keeps crashing. I have good internet and any other operating system works 10x better. Even the power off button doesnt work, I have to tell the built in Alexa to turn off the tv. I hate fireTV its horrible

All of a sudden, our Pioneer Fire TV won’t turn on. It just keeps flashing the startup screen. We’re not aware of anything happening to it, even a power surge or anything. I’ve replaced the batteries on the remotes. I’ve found a few troubleshooting suggestions through Google and YouTube, but nothing has worked. If you’ve you had this issue, how did you resolve it?

Thank you.

Tl;dr: Buy an Apple TV.

Sorry if there already are posts like this, but I want to share my experience.

So I got a new Fire TV Cube recently after the old one started stuttering heavily and sometimes completely crashing.

Hopeful, I installed it as soon as it arrived. Maybe it would finally consistently play back at 24p. Maybe it would finally no longer randomly output stereo (for example Youtube content) in dolby digital, so that the AVR is not able to upscale it properly. Maybe they would finally increase the quality of the remote. Maybe they generally increased the quality of the device.

First, the positive: It does finally output stereo sound as stereo and not as stereo-fixed in a dolby signal. And yes it is faster than the old one. But that is where the improvements end.

The negative:

The new remote is even shittier than the old one. It is built to such a low standard that it already creaks more strongly than the old one after years of use. Its got extra "Ad" buttons now for certain streaming services, yay!

The device still cannot handle 24p properly. How is that still a thing in 2026? Bluray Players could do this over a decade ago and the Apple TV apparently can do it for years, how can they still not figure this out? While technically, it does support automatic framerate switching and did that when freshly set up, it promptly stopped doing that as soon as it went to sleep a couple of times. Now I can get it to do that again, if I were to change some stupid setting like color depth each time I wake this thing from sleep, but it will basically only work until the next time that I put it to sleep. Basically: Yes it does support it, but it is so buggy that it is practically unusable.

And then an entirely new issue suddenly pops up. I do not know if it did this from the start, but now it does not even properly output full RGB 0-255 colors anymore even if that mode is selected. It seems to output RGB as a signal, but it converted the space wrong because the black-levels are all messed up (the image and especially black bars are essentially grey instead of black). It feels like it sends out YCbCr Colors in a RGB 0-255 format. I solved this in a kind-of workaround by using the YCBCr-Mode, which seems to work fine, but should obviously not be necessary.

On top of all of this we get an ever increasing amount of ads and a trashier interface as time goes on.

Considering that an Apple TV will even last longer than this stuff, I would recommend anybody buy that instead of this crappy thing. The price difference is minimal considering that you will likely get a much better device there. Since I am sadly just past the return window as I fully realize the scope of the misery, I will stick with it for now. But I want to warn anybody else: Buy an Apple TV.

I’ve found a number of engineering and software bugs in the 50 inch 4k set. I’m currently testing the Bluetooth audio offset with test patterns and proving that despite having a wide range of (undefined) values on the slider both extreme ends of the setting the audio is still 6 frame out of sync via the test pattern and the slider does nothing.

a second headset is showing only 1 frame out on the test but is clearly 5+ frames out on hd video playback and again no position on the delay slider changes anything on the test pattern or on playing video.

My firestick remote stopped working out of the blue. I tried everything i could find on the internet, resetting this and that, hold these buttons for 10 seconds blah blah. Then i read a post where someone said they left the batteries out for 10mins and then it started working. This gave me an idea.

I took out the batteries and using a spare wire,

connected the positive and negative terminals for a couple seconds,

put the batteries back in and was back in business.

I didnt find this solution anyplace so i figured i’d post my experience. Good luck out there!