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-====== Installing the HDHomeRun app for Fire TV ======+====== HDHomeRun for Fire TV ====== 
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-<lead>Installing the HDHomeRun app for Fire TV</lead>+<lead>Installing the HDHomeRun app for Fire devices running Fire OS 5 or later.</lead>
  
-===== Installation steps =====+<WRAP center important> 
 +**The official HDHomeRun app does not //currently// work on the 2026 model of Fire TV sticks, or the 2025 "SELECT" version of the Fire TV stick.**
  
-==== Section 1 ====+SiliconDust is working on creating a version of the HDHomeRun app for these new "Vega"-based Fire TV devices, but we currently don't have an ETA on when that work will be done. 
 + 
 +Fire TV devices that still run "Fire OS" (based on Android) are still fully supported. 
 +</WRAP> 
 + 
 + 
 +===== Install the app =====
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-<panel type="success" title="Step 1"> +<panel type="success" title="Download the app"> 
-step 1 + 
-</panel>+{{ :fire_tv_install.mp4?direct&600x338}} 
 +  - Press the **"Home"** button on your Fire TV remote and arrow over to the left to select the **"Search"** icon. 
 +  - Arrow down to the search box 
 +  - Use the on-screen keyboard to type in **"HDHomeRun"**. You may only need to type in the first few letters before it shows a result. 
 +  - Select the green HDHomeRun icon. 
 +  - Select the **install** button 
 + 
 +**Optional:** Add the HDHomeRun app to the home screen 
 +  - You can find the HDHomeRun icon with your other apps, but you can also make it appear on the top row. 
 +  - Press "Home" on the Fire TV remote and arrow over to the right till you see the icon of "three boxes and a plus sign". 
 +  - Arrow over to the HDHomeRun icon and select it. 
 +  - Arrow down to the "Move to front" option. 
 +  - Now the HDHomeRun icon will always show on the Fire TV home screen.
  
-<panel type="success" title="Step 2"> 
-step 2 
 </panel> </panel>
  
-<panel type="success" title="Step 3"> +<panel type="success" title="Scan for channels"> 
-step 3+The HDHomeRun will attempt to automatically scan for channels the first time it is connected to power, and will occasionally do a background scan every few days, but you may still need to run an initial channel scan.  
 + 
 +  * **Scan for channels using the HDHomeRun app:** 
 +    - Select the gear icon in the top-right corner of the "Live / Guide / Recorded / Discover / Tasks" screen 
 +    - Select **"Channels"** 
 +    - Select **"Scan Channels"** 
 +    - Wait for the scan to complete 
 +  * **Scan for channels using the [[:webui|web interface]]:** 
 +    - In a web browser that is on the same local network as the HDHomeRun (your PC, phone, tablet, etc), go to this address: **http://hdhomerun.local/lineup.html** 
 +    - Click on **"Detect Channels"** 
 +    - You can also hide or "Favorite" channels from this page. Click the gray star next to a channel number once to make it a "Favorite", then click it again to "Blacklist" the channel from the HDHomeRun app. Click again if you wish to return a channel to the default gray star (no setting).
 </panel> </panel>
  
 </WRAP> </WRAP>
-==== Section 2 ====+===== Basic controls =====
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 +<btn type="success" size="xs" icon="fa fa-chevron-right">[[:app#using_the_app|See all app controls]]</btn>
  
-step+  * While no controls are visible on screen (Press back/exit/escape to clear visible controls from the screen): 
 + 
 +  * **{{fa>arrow-up}} UP / {{fa>arrow-down}} Down -** Opens the right-hand Slice Guide for channel changes (or the grid guide if you disable the Slice Guide in settings) 
 +      * While in recording playback, **{{fa>arrow-up}} UP / {{fa>arrow-down}} Down** will seek in 10 minute steps 
 + 
 +  * **{{fa>arrow-left}} LEFT / {{fa>arrow-right}} RIGHT -** Seeks when viewing a recording or when you have paused live TV and have a buffer to rewind and fast forward through 
 + 
 +  * **SELECT -** Brings up the action bar with "Play/Pause" selected, so that you can press "Select" twice to quickly play or pause. From here you can navigate to the other action bar buttons. 
 + 
 +  * **BACK -** Exits to the Recorded/Discover/Tasks/Settings screens 
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 +</WRAP> 
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 + 
 +===== Troubleshooting ===== 
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 +<btn type="success" size="xs" icon="fa fa-chevron-right">[[:Troubleshooting|See all troubleshooting topics]]</btn> 
 +==== Not available on the "Select" ==== 
 +<WRAP indent> 
 + 
 +The majority of Fire TV devices run an OS based on Android called Fire OS. The Fire TV Stick 4K that ends with "**Select**" in its name is a new and runs a different OS, and as such, the current official HDHomeRun app (and many other streaming apps) is not compatible with it.  
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 +</WRAP>
  
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