[Nfbktad] Amazon Fire Remote App

Kevin Pearl kvnprl at twc.com
Thu Aug 4 18:32:09 UTC 2016


The following is from wired.com: 

The original Fire TV Stick did not have the voice search option; now you can get that for only $10 more. If you have the original Stick, you can add voice search a number of ways. 

One: buy the $29.99 Voice Remote for Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick(essentially the same one that comes with the Fire TV). That's kinda silly, since it's almost as expensive as the Stick itself. Plus, it doesn't appear to be currently available. 

Better yet, download the Fire TV remote app. Get it for Android (even direct from the Amazon Appstore for Android) or iOS. The phone will need to be on the same Wi-Fi network as the Amazon Fire TV to work; if you have a dual-band network, make sure your phone and Fire are both on the same frequency, either 2.4 or 5GHz. The name of the Fire TV should appear on the smartphone screen; click it, then punch in the 4-digit code that comes up on the screen and it'll give you complete control. 

The app provides just as much control as the included remote plus the full on-screen smartphone keyboard for entering info like usernames and password. It also has the microphone for the Fire TV voice capabilities; it'll make you wonder why Amazon bothered making the hardware.

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