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+++ app:fire_tv [2025/05/29 01:07] (current) – [Basic controls] neds
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-====== Installing the HDHomeRun app for Fire TV ======
+====== HDHomeRun for Fire TV ======
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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
+**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.
-Step
+  * **Scan for channels using the HDHomeRun app:**
+    -
+  * **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 =====
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-<btn type="success" size="xs" icon="fa fa-chevron-left">[[:app#using_the_app|See all app controls]]</btn>
+<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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 ===== Troubleshooting =====
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-<btn type="success" size="xs" icon="fa fa-chevron-left">[[:Troubleshooting|See all troubleshooting topics]]</btn>
+<btn type="success" size="xs" icon="fa fa-chevron-right">[[:Troubleshooting|See all troubleshooting topics]]</btn>
 ==== Section 1 ====
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