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HDHomeRun for Fire TV

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Installing the HDHomeRun app for Fire TV

The official HDHomeRun app will NOT work on the “SELECT” version of the Fire TV stick.

The “Select” version is a cheaper, crappier version of the Fire TV devices, and should be avoided for many reasons, including that it doesn't work with the HDHomeRun app. At this time other versions of Fire TV are not currently affected and should be okay to use.

Install the app

Download the app

  1. Press the “Home” button on your Fire TV remote and arrow over to the left to select the “Search” icon.
  2. Arrow down to the search box
  3. 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.
  4. Select the green HDHomeRun icon.
  5. Select the install button

Optional: Add the HDHomeRun app to the home screen

  1. You can find the HDHomeRun icon with your other apps, but you can also make it appear on the top row.
  2. 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”.
  3. Arrow over to the HDHomeRun icon and select it.
  4. Arrow down to the “Move to front” option.
  5. Now the HDHomeRun icon will always show on the Fire TV home screen.

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:
  • Scan for channels using the web interface:
    1. 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
    2. Click on “Detect Channels”
    3. 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).

Basic controls

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  • While no controls are visible on screen (Press back/exit/escape to clear visible controls from the screen):
  • UP / 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, UP / Down will seek in 10 minute steps
  • LEFT / 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

Troubleshooting

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Not available on the "Select"

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.