Anyone have a firestick?

[toldozer]

Specifically a jail broken one? I am looking at buying one for the fight tonight. 

[Jase]

You don't need to jailbreak them to do illegal stuff. Buy one from best buy and follow directions online how to put Kodi on them. Their restrictions can be turned off in the settings menu.

[Zaximus]

Get ready for inconsistent streams, especially for fights as big as this.   In fact, for about anything on there, but it's free so hey.

For non live stuff, everyone really needs to look into setting up newsgroups/sonarr/plex etc

[Hugor Hill]

its super easy to do. Even for an electronic novice like myself, I got a fire box and put kodi+ addons in under an hour. 

[toldozer]

It's more so the time doing it. The stick is 39.99 plus tax at best buy,  so it's 45 bucks.  Buying it done for 75 isn't super expensive and then I don't have to mess with it. Basically I'm lazy. Plus I'm charging 4 people 20 bucks each to come watch the fight so I'm making 5 bucks is the way I look at it. 

[PantherKing1983]

Just be prepared to possibly miss some of the action , the streams are not always consistent and you have to know how to find them i would suggest finding 10 of them on different channels ahead of time so you dont have to do searching if and when one goes out. 

[toldozer]

10 minutes ago, PantherKing1983 said:

Just be prepared to possibly miss some of the action , the streams are not always consistent and you have to know how to find them i would suggest finding 10 of them on different channels ahead of time so you dont have to do searching if and when one goes out. 

Thanks for the heads up. Going to try it for a month then get rid of my satellite if it works well. I don't care about the fight, just a reason to get other people to pay for it.

[TANTRIC-NINJA]

Look into Set TV NOW which can download to the FIre Stick. It has nothing to do with KODI and you get 500 channels including Sunday TIX, pay channels and PPV like the fight tonight. Its not perfect but the MLB pkg and HBOs look great and I have had minimal issues that you get with streaming HD live tv on Kodi. 

It is a 20 per mth service which would still be cheaper than buying a jail broken firestick for 75 dollars. Also you may have a mass walk out with the buffering you may get. I had to watch the NCAA finals with russian announcers to avoid the stream cutting out. 

[Kevin Greene]

Hey, post this crap in nerdvana.....wait.

[toldozer]

16 minutes ago, Kevin Greene said:

Hey, post this crap in nerdvana.....wait.

You are super butt hurt about the consolidation, aren't you? It really isnt that big of a deal is it? 1 forum with increased traffic is better than 4 with minimal traffic.

[Kevin Greene]

2 minutes ago, toldozer said:

You are super butt hurt about the consolidation, aren't you? It really isnt that big of a deal is it? 1 forum with increased traffic is better than 4 with minimal traffic.

Quit your whinging.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8fem_aVbgI

 

[Zaximus]

It's definitely annoying having to sort through threads like someone talking about 48 hours since smoking and other nonsense to get to what you want but, whatever...

[KillerKat]

Can you get sports on firestick and how reliable is it if you can?

[toldozer]

17 minutes ago, KillerKat said:

Can you get sports on firestick and how reliable is it if you can?

The fight didn't go well,  I would assume NFL would be the same. I won't be getting rid of directv.  Movies seem to be pretty good on there.  If I cared anything about the fight I would have been upset