You should see your Fire TV Stick’s IP or name show in the Connected Devices box, and you should see the text “ IP connection” in the Connection Status box. In Address, type the IP address of your Fire TV Stick that you took note of earlier. In Description, give your Fire TV Stick a name. Then, follow this setup process to get your adbLink program communicating with your Fire TV Stick: Using your desktop or laptop computer, go to this link, scroll down, and find the download link for your operating system (Windows, Mac, or Linux). Then, you will need to download adbLink to your computer before you move on to one of the 2 methods. Find and take note of your Fire Stick’s IP address by going to Settings > System > About > Network. There’s also a box to remember this choice. When connecting from ADB for the first time, the Fire TV Stick shows a secure connection screen and you have to check a box to confirm that it’s OK to connect to your PC. On your Fire TV device, navigate to Settings > My Fire TV > Developer Options and turn ON both options ( Apps from Unknown Sources and ADB Debugging). You’ll need to enable ADB Debugging and install adbLink regardless of which method you choose.Įnable ADB Debugging on Your Fire TV Stickīefore you move on to one of the 2 methods below, you need to follow these steps first on your Fire Stick. I figured out #2 by myself, but later discovered #1 which is clearly the better choice because if your Fire Stick reboots, you don’t have to remember to launch the app again.Įither way, there are a couple things you’ll need to do first. Install an app that will keep the screen alive to prevent the Fire Stick from sleeping. Use adbLink to change an invisible setting to disable the screen timeout, OR. The new Seren Kodi add-on suffers from this problem. Not only is that frustrating because you have to wait for Kodi to boot up each time, but it can wreak havoc on your Kodi add-ons since many add-ons lose all their settings if you don’t exit Kodi properly. If you use Kodi on the Fire TV device, then you have probably been frustrated by the fact that every time you wake the device, Kodi has been forcefully closed and it’s back on the Fire TV home screen. If you use an Amazon Fire TV Stick, Cube, or anything with Amazon’s Fire TV OS, you may have noticed that there is no setting to disable the device from going to sleep after some time of inactivity. The Problem with my Fire Stick Going to Sleep 
Frustrated with your Fire Stick going to sleep and closing your apps all the time? There’s a fix, and I’ll show you how to do it.Ģ020 Update: I made a video tutorial for this, so now you can watch the video while you read this tutorial post! Click on the video below and then keep scrolling.
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