How To Install Kodi on My Firestick : Installing Kodi on different Fire TV Stick devices

How To Install Kodi on My Firestick : Installing Kodi on different Fire TV Stick devices

This page describes some of the methods to install Kodi onto an Amazon Fire TV (box) or Fire TV Stick. The Fire TV uses Kodi for android and does not require root.

Kodi is available as a native application for Android, Linux, Mac OS X, iOS and Windows operating systems, running on most common processor architectures. A small overview of the features can be found on our about page. For each platform, we offer a stable and development release(s). For normal users we recommend installing the stable releases.

Source Code

Current development is done in our git repository. The source can be viewed online, downloaded, or cloned from our github repository:

$ git clone git://github.com/xbmc/xbmc.git

The official Kodi version does not contain any content whatsoever. This means that you should provide your own content from a local or remote storage location, DVD, Blu-Ray or any other media carrier that you own. Additionally Kodi allows you to install third-party plugins that may provide access to content that is freely available on the official content provider website. The consumption of pirated content which would otherwise need to be paid for is not endorsed or approved by Team Kodi.

How To Install Kodi on My Firestick :

This page describes some of the methods to install Kodi onto an Amazon Fire TV (box) or Fire TV Stick. The Fire TV uses Kodi for android and does not require root. All Fire TV products allow sideloading, so no hacking or modification is required to install Kodi.

In order to install apps from outside the Amazon app store, we need to enable these options:

1. From the Fire TV Home screen, select Settings
2. Go to System -> Developer Options (Device -> Developer Options on newer systems)
3. Enable both the ADB Debugging and the Apps from Unknown Sources options.
4. Go to System -> About -> Network, and take note of the Fire TV’s IP address (Device -> About -> Network on newer systems)

apps2fire

apps2fire is an app that can be ran from another Android device, such as a phone or a tablet. The phone/tablet running apps2fire can install any apps (which are already installed on the phone/tablet) from the phone/tablet to the Fire TV.

On a phone or tablet connected to the same network as your Fire TV device

1. Install Kodi from Google Play: http://kodi.tv/download/
2. Install apps2fire: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.koni.appstofiretv
3. Enable the developer options on the Fire TV device (as mentioned above on this page)
4. Open apps2fire and enter the IP address of your Fire TV device
5. Select Kodi to install on the Fire TV device

adbLink (Win/Mac/Linux)

adbLink is a companion program for FireTV and Android Kodi & forks. It allows you to sideload Kodi (and other apps) without the bother of downloading the Android SDK and other tools. Additionally, it allows you to copy files to and from Kodi, backup Kodi, root the FireTV, mount USB drives and more.

CetusPlay App

CetusPlay is an app that allows you side-load lots of popular TV apps to Fire TV from your phone. What’s more, it offers user remote function to your Fire TV.

Speaking of installing Kodi to Fire TV, the steps as following:

1. Install CetusPlay from Google Play：https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cetusplay.remotephone
2. Enable the ADB on the Fire TV as mentioned above and there will be a TV server of CetusPlay installed automatically on your TV.
3. Turn to the App Center in CetusPlay.
4. Kodi will on the top and just click Install

ADB command line

These are steps to manually install Kodi using the ADB command line tool, as an alternative to using an app like adbLink.

General Steps

1. Install the Android SDK for your platform: https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
2. Follow these instructions to connect ADB to your Amazon Fire TV: https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/asb/connect-adb.html
3. Follow these instructions to install the Kodi app onto the Fire TV (using the ADB tool): https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/asb/app-install.html

Note: Your computer must be connected to the same network as your Fire TV