Matt Lowe Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 Control4 worked out the details for the new ADB security. Haven't tested on my firetv yet as I decommissioned it, but Have heard the same delay is there as before. However I did test on my ShieldTV and can confirm for now it does work to control it. However the amazon prime video mini driver does not work for the shield tv. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthData Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 so currently i have 2 fire tv products, 1 being a 2nd gen fire tv box (hard-lined on network on the same subnet as my Control4) and 1 2nd gen fire stick (on WiFi within the same subnet as well). My Fire TV box can be found in the firetv driver under the fire tv selector and can add it on my project, am able to see on my remote and everything but have no control at all. My firestick on the other hand works perfectly fine, i used the same method and selected it and have full control over it and had no problems. (i did all of this on 11/9/18) when i asked someone at my work apparently amazon broke all the adb connections between the 2 only for the purpose of amazon only wanting there remote in your hand. Either way i think its really bizarre my 40$ firestick on WiFi is working and my 80 firebox that's hard-lined wont work. As far as mini drivers i have never done that with the fire tv just created the custom red, green, yellow, blue buttons. All in all i was just curious to see if you or anyone out there has seen this or ran into this before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 There is a whole new driver that needs manual updates and fixes this Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthData Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 What is the driver called? the one i have is the firetv driver from amazon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanchow Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 Here is the knowledgebase article for dealers. https://dealer.control4.com/dealer/knowledgebase/article/2314 turls and msgreenf 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthData Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 2 minutes ago, alanchow said: Here is the knowledgebase article for dealers. https://dealer.control4.com/dealer/knowledgebase/article/2314 Thank you very much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thepritch88 Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 Does the old Amazon custom channel driver work with the updated driver? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 7 minutes ago, Thepritch88 said: Does the old Amazon custom channel driver work with the updated driver? there are a new set of mini drivers - they now use the universal mini drivers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thepritch88 Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 I saw those, i had made a Kodi mini driver using the old Amazon custom channel driver so i was curious if it would still work if i reinstated my firestick, is there a universal mini driver for kodi? i couldn't find one when i looked a while ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 4 minutes ago, Thepritch88 said: I saw those, i had made a Kodi mini driver using the old Amazon custom channel driver so i was curious if it would still work if i reinstated my firestick, is there a universal mini driver for kodi? i couldn't find one when i looked a while ago no, you would have to make a new one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thepritch88 Posted November 13, 2018 Share Posted November 13, 2018 3 hours ago, msgreenf said: no, you would have to make a new one thanks for confirming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthData Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 i have fixed my living room fire tv, thank you very much! i was now curious if any was familiar with the fire mouse toggle apk? i have it on my firebox and basically you press the play/pause button twice makes your remote into a mouse and can use apks such as showbox and apple music. I have it working 100% on fire tv remote but cant get it to register with SR-260. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hank31980 Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 On 11/3/2018 at 5:26 AM, Matt Lowe said: Control4 worked out the details for the new ADB security. Haven't tested on my firetv yet as I decommissioned it, but Have heard the same delay is there as before. However I did test on my ShieldTV and can confirm for now it does work to control it. However the amazon prime video mini driver does not work for the shield tv. All good with updated driver. New Fire TV driver loaded & Gen 3 Fire TV stick now fixed & working again & not requiring fixed IP anymore, working from UPNP. I do wonder when it will next be broken though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Lowe Posted November 14, 2018 Author Share Posted November 14, 2018 2 hours ago, hank31980 said: I do wonder when it will next be broken though. thats all on the cooperation from amazon, they changed the adb security which broke the originally driver and then control4 had to drag the changes out of them to update the driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyknight Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 5 hours ago, Matt Lowe said: thats all on the cooperation from amazon, they changed the adb security Well....not quite exact. The ADB is an Android thing, Amazon just chose to implement the newer version requiring authentication, then didn't publish how that authentication was working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo1738 Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Is there still a lot of input lag like previous? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 16 minutes ago, Neo1738 said: Is there still a lot of input lag like previous? yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tims Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 anyone got a copy of this driver? I would love to have one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unsocialtoaster Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 The old driver that is being discussed above was pretty terrible, the delay between pushing a button and the cursor moving on screen was 1-2 seconds due to how the driver had to talk to the device. There will soon be a new driver out, indeed it was released very briefly and then pulled for unspecified reasons; but we are told it will be released in the not too distant future. Until it is offically out though, best off avoiding Fire devices with C4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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