Firestick general discussion thread

ones a regular stick not 4K and then the other is a Firestick lite which is brand new so not sure how it’s happening on both - for some reason it’ll play the featured live tv no bother but anything else and the app closes itself straight away, force stop and clear cache didn’t seem to work, not sure if i installed incorrectly or something, thanks

Nah no VPN or anything on them, do you know the best installer to use to get the app on firestick? gonna uninstall and try again, thanks

Thanks, yeah checked on phone all was fine - last time i installed it I used a wifi installer to send the files over to the stick, I assume that was incorrect?

thanks I’ll give it a right go now, anyone hardly have an alternative link for the split apk installer? I’m getting a bad gateway error on the page

Having bought a firestick last week, I sat down today to see if I could sort out the RTE Player having had no joy with discussing the app. I thought I was finally set when I found this thread to discover the site hosting the APK got shuttered today 😭😭😭.

I had it working briefly with screen mirroring a few days ago, but that's stopped working as well (sound and control overlays - no video). It won't allow access in Silk either.

The player continues to be one of the biggest poc around, but I'll report back if I make progress.

Can anyone tell me if I can buy a Roku stick in Tesco?

Thank you

I think they all work, it's more that Amazon won't ship the frequently discounted UK versions here. If you have the means of ordering it through the north, that's probably the way to go. For what it's worth, I ordered mine through Currys, and it worked out cheaper than the "international" version (€65 Vs £69 for the 4k Max) and the one I got came with UK apps pre-installed saving a bunch of sideloading

Plenty of sellers on Donedeal for new Fire TV sticks, including latest versions - they are all the same devices as UK. All work here once you setup with your own Amazon account.

No it depends what region your Amazon account is set to. This then dictates what apps are available in the app store.

You can check what region its set to in your Amazon account under

Your Account → Manage Your Content and Devices → Preferences

The Irish Curry stores are probably buying them from their Northern Ireland counterparts (which is a separate operation, both owned by Currys PLC). Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are part of a single market for goods, thanks to the Northern Ireland Protocol within the Brexit agreement. How they actually deliver these I couldnt hazard a guess, but either way it will be legit.

Amazon (located in Great Britain) aside from licencing agreements, could choose not to for a number of other reasons, such as market segmentation & content availability (eg UK Firesticks have Alexa setup specifically for UK).

Argos made the decision (Jan 23) to close its doors before the Windsor framework was in place (Oct 23).

Ya. I think it's Amazon's own decision not to sell them in Ireland. The fact that UK TV apps feature in the marketing but they are geolocked (and not everyone knows how to get around that) might mean that they'd get hassle on their support desk from Irish customers if they did ship them here. What do Curry's say when customers turn up saying that the BBC Iplayer doesn't work?

None Im aware of. Best bet would be to checkout this reddit thread

https://www.reddit.com/r/cyclocross/comments/1hupuwh/streaming_nationals/