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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 TV</lead>
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 +  - 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 
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 +**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.
  
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-<panel type="success" title="Step 2"> +<panel type="success" title="Scan for channels"> 
- +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. 
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 +  * **Scan for channels using the HDHomeRun app:**
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 +  * **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).
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 ===== Basic controls ===== ===== Basic controls =====
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-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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 ===== Troubleshooting ===== ===== Troubleshooting =====
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 ==== Section 1 ==== ==== Section 1 ====
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