Amazon Fire TV Stick: How to Install Kodi and Its Addons

Amazon Fire TV Stick: How to Install Kodi

For all those users who have or plan to have an Amazon Fire TV Stick , it is very important to know how to install Kodi , since it will allow us to give this device a plus of usability and versatility. That is why today we are going to tell you everything you need to know about it.

The combination of the Fire TV Stick and Kodi is an excellent idea, since it will provide us with a series of options and possibilities that we will not have natively in the Amazon product.

What is the Amazon Fire TV Stick?

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The Amazon Fire TV Stick is one of the star products of the North American online store and one of the best sellers, since its excellent performance must be added a very well adjusted price.

It is a streaming multimedia content player that can be connected to the HDMI port of our television and thus turn it into a Smart TV.

It has a command with which we can interact with the voice with the Fire TV Stick, since it has the Alexa virtual assistant integrated, with which we can control the entire device. We will enjoy movies, series or documentaries from the Amazon Prime Video service if we are members or if we have an Amazon Prime account.

We can also enjoy other types of platforms such as Netflix, HBO, Disney +, Apple TV, DAZN or Movistar + among others.

But not everything stops there, since we can play music thanks to Alexa and Amazon Music or control services such as Spotify or TuneIn.

The Amazon Fire TV Stick can be connected to any television that has an HDMI port. In addition, being so small, light and handy we can take it from one place to another if we need it.

What is Kodi?

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Kodi is one of the most popular multimedia centers out there right now, as well as being one of the most complete. It is available on different platforms such as Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Linux, and even BSD.

Thanks to this application we will be able to manage all the multimedia content that we need, whether they are videos, music, images or streaming, since with the amount of complements (addons) that it has, almost anything can be done.

The best thing is that we are talking about a totally free and open source application (open source), so its maintenance is supported by many users. The official version allows us to manage our own services such as DVD, Blue-Ray, cloud services, etc. Streaming services will be effective thanks to add-ons.

How to install Kodi

To install Kodi on your Amazon Fire TV Stick, you will first have to download it on your device , knowing that it is not an application that is within the Amazon catalog.

We have to get hold of a Kodi APK file to be able to install it on the Fire TV Stick, something that we will achieve thanks to the Downloader application , following these steps:

  • Within our Amazon Fire TV Stick we must go to the Categories menu that is at the top of the screen.
  • Next we click on Utilities .
  • Here we must choose Downloader and download it, giving it to Get.

Once we have Downloader we open it and follow some steps to download and install Kodi.

  • Click on Browser , which is located in the upper left part of the screen.
  • Now in the browser we write https://kodi.tv/download .
  • Once we are on the download page we must click on Android.
  • We will have three options. We must click on the one for ARM 32-bit processors , since it is the system compatible with the Amazon device.
  • Once pressed, the download of the APK file will start.
  • When it is finished, it will ask us to give it permission to install it, to which we must say yes to everything.
  • Then another screen will appear where we have to click on the Install button to start the installation of Kodi on the device.

In this way we will already have Kodi installed on our Amazon Fire Stick TV and we can begin to enjoy everything that this program offers us.

Uses of the Amazon Fire TV Stick

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The Amazon Fire TV Stick offers us a good number of possibilities at our fingertips. Those of you who already know this device will know them all, but for those who have not yet used it, we are going to give you some brushstrokes.

  • Play multimedia : Thanks to this product we will be able to see the content of the main streaming services that exist right now.
  • Send content : it will also serve us to send photos, videos or music from our smartphone so that they can be seen on our television screen.
  • Smartphone screen : we can see the screen of our smartphone or tablet on the TV thanks to the Amazon product. In this way we will interact with our mobile device, but seeing it on a screen as large as that of television.
  • Browse : something that seems obvious is that we can surf the Internet, since we turn our television into a full-fledged Smart TV.
  • Smartphone as a remote control : if you have lost the Amazon Fire remote control or it does not work, you can always use your smartphone for this purpose, downloading an application. It doesn’t matter if your phone is Android or iOS, since it works on both platforms.
  • Play : as is evident we will not only be able to download applications, but we will also have games at our disposal, so we will enjoy them on a large screen such as our television.
  • Bluetooth : having Bluetooth we will be able to connect different devices through this type of connection.
  • Manage by voice : this is one of the most comfortable faculties of the Amazon Fire TV Stick. By having the Alexa virtual assistant integrated, it will allow us to manage everything related to the device through voice. But not only that, but Alexa will also serve us for all kinds of functions of the assistant, such as showing us the time, setting alarms or creating shopping baskets, among many other things.

As you can see, the possibilities are many for this Amazon device, which we complete much more effectively by installing such versatile software as Kodi.