Little Known Fire TV Options and Links

These links aren't very well publicized, but they have a great deal of potential to help if you are running into performance issues in Kodi, want to adjust your video quality, or even monitor the data you're using, if your ISP has imposed a data cap on your account. Some system hacks are also shown here.

• Add Android TV Interface and Google Play Store Without Losing The Amazon Appstore

• How to Access the Hidden Developer's Menu on Fire TV and Fire TV Stick

• Data Cap Alert For those that have data caps on your network, this utility will monitor your data usage and alert you when you've hit a limit that you set

• How to add FireTV Applications to the Home Screen

• System X-Ray This option allows you to view information about your network, your data speed, and at what rate your videos are playing, among others. Useful for debugging network issues without having to sideload another application
  • MyNetLyzer is a free app that can display channel congestion in a chart for each frequency range, MAC addresses and other useful information

Video Playback Options

• Adjust the Video Resolution on your FireTV
  • If you have the latest 5.2.4.1 firmware, you will find that playing a 1080p video at 24Hz resolution doesn't work well. There is a bug in the update, and it's discussed here

• Select from 3 Different Video Quality Settings

FireTV Remote Controller Utilities

• Remote Control Your FireTV Through USB

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