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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> 
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 +<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.** 
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 +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. 
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 +Fire TV devices that still run "Fire OS" (based on Android) are still fully supported. 
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 ===== Install the app ===== ===== Install the app =====
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-<panel type="success" title="Step 1">+<panel type="success" title="Download the app">
  
-Step+{{ :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
  
-</panel>+**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">+</panel>
  
-Step+<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. 
  
 +  * **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).
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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):
  
-</WRAP>+  * **{{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
  
-===== Fire TV specific settings ===== +  * **{{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
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-step+  * **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. 
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 +  * **BACK -** Exits to the Recorded/Discover/Tasks/Settings screens
  
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 ===== Troubleshooting ===== ===== Troubleshooting =====
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-==== Section 1 ====+==== Not available on the "Select" ====
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-section 1+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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-==== Section 2 ==== 
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-Section 2 
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