Refine Your Fire TV Streaming With Kodi

Amazon has carved its niche in the transpiring domain of Live Video Streaming with the launch of its Second Gen digital media player and microconsole called Amazon Fire TV. The first generation of Fire TV was unveiled in April 2014 and it was initially available to US citizens only. Soon after, Amazon came up with the second generation of this tiny entertainment device with enhanced processing power and 4K UHD support.

Despite of its small size, Fire TV brings more than 4000 TV channels, games, apps and much more directly to your dedicated TV set. With its Netflix integration, you can watch over 250,000 movies and TV shows with no additional charges. Fire TV comes in two variants:

• A small set-top box like the one offered by Roku and Apple TV

• A tiny portable USB stick called Fire TV stick

While both variants are compatible for 1080p videos, the Fire TV box also supports 4K Ultra HD. However, in order to effectively play 1080p videos in Amazon Fire TV, first you need to install a media player application called Kodi. Through this blog post, we’re going to teach you how to install Kodi on your Fire TV in few simple steps. So before going further, let’s start with a brief intro to Kodi.

What Is Kodi & How It Helps?

Kodi, formerly known as Xbox Media Center is an open-source media player application that was developed by XBMC foundation in 2004. Kodi is available on popular operating systems like Android, iOS, Windows, Mac OS X, Apple TV OS and Linux in 75+ languages.

The Kodi application was initially developed for the first generation Xbox game console but it later served as a native media center application for different operating systems. Kodi provides you an easy way to stream real-time media at an incredibly high resolution without any lag or delay.

How To Install Kodi

It’s quite easy to install Kodi on your Amazon Fire TV and it can be done in two ways, via ABD or using ES File Explorer. In this tutorial, we’re going to teach you how to install Kodi via ABD using a computer or Mac.

In order to install Kodi on your Fire TV, follow these simple steps:

• Switch to the home screen of your Amazon Fire TV and go to settings.

• This will open a new tab with different options. Go to System and select Developer Options.

• Turn on, ADB Debugging and allow Apps From Unknown Sources option.  

• When you’re done with that, go back to System > About > Network.

• Doing this will show the IP Address of your Fire TV on screen. Note down the IP address and proceed further.

• After all this, open up a web browser (Chrome recommended) on your computer or Mac and visit a website, jocala.com.

• Scroll down and download the latest version of ADB Fire compatible for your OS.

• After downloading the ADB, visit a url, kodi.tv.

• Go to downloads. Choose the latest android ARM version of Kodi and download the apk file.  

• Install both applications in your windows or Mac OS.

• While installing ADB fire, enter the IP address of your Fire TV and click on connect button.

• Click on Install APK button. Browse through the location of your downloaded Kodi apk file, select it and then click on Yes.

• It will automatically initiate the installation process and click on OK when it’s done.

• Go back to your Fire TV settings window.

• Follow these simple steps, Go to Settings > Applications > Manage All Installed Applications and select Kodi from the list, launch the Kodi media player and that’s it! You’re good to go!

That’s all for now. Hope the tutorial helps you install the Kodi application on your Amazon Fire TV. Meanwhile, if you have some further queries, feel free to ask. Happy Streaming!