Amazon Fire TV devices are products that allow us to give any screen a second life , giving it the capabilities of a smart TV. But of course, if you are a somewhat more advanced user and want to make the most of this equipment, you should know that there is a tool that will allow you to do so. Today we explain how you can install Kodi on your Amazon Fire TV .
What is Kodi?
You may not know what this tool is. So let us introduce you to the one that, from now on, will be an essential on your Amazon gadget or on your own PC.
Kodi is an evolution of what we used to know as XBMC or XBox Media Center . This began as an application for computers that transformed them into their own multimedia consumption centers, in which we could reproduce everything that we stored in it: series, films, images and a long etcetera. A kind of mix between Net-flix and a cloud storage system but, yes, for private use and created by us.
Thanks to being an open source application, with the passage of time and the intensive use of its users, it became a multiplatform service that was understood much further than our computer. To give you an idea, today we will have it available on Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, iOS or we can even install it on a Raspberry Pi.
One of the great improvements that Kodi incorporated over time were the Add-ons . That, without going into excessive detail, let’s say that they are small extensions that are installed on our Kodi and that will allow us to do many functions: link with other services, watch television programs from anywhere in the world, check the weather, etc.
Of course, as with many other things on the internet, there are “good” and “bad” Add-ons. Come on, some will allow us to perform illegal actions, which we do not recommend or encourage with this article. It is the responsibility of each user to use these types of functions and programs appropriately. We recommend that you use only and exclusively the extensions that are shown on the official website of this service itself.
How to install Kodi on Amazon Fire TV
Now that you know well what Kodi consists of, it is time to explain how you can install it on your Amazon Fire TV .
Unlike what happens on a smart TV with Android TV (or any device based on said operating system), the Kodi application does not appear anywhere if we search for it through the application store. This may seem a bit strange to you, since most of the apps that we find on computers with the Google operating system are ported to the Amazon app store
Still you can rest easy because we can install Kodi without many problems from its own website, adding to the equation a browser with a download system to our Fire TV. First of all we need this app installed on the Amazon gadget:
- Access the search section of your Fire TV (whatever model it is). This is indicated by a magnifying glass to the left of the menu bar of its interface.
- Once inside, type “Downloader” . This is an application that, as we have mentioned, will help us download files and incorporates a web browsing system.
- Click on “Install” to add it to your application catalog.
Now you just have to open Downloader to continue the process:
- Being inside the interface of this application, you will see a bar to write that is under the phrase “Enter a URL …”. Here you must type Kodi and then click on “GO”.
- As soon as the web loads you will see that the design is very similar to the browser on your computer. The first results are ads that you should not enter. The correct address is the one that accesses the Kodi.tv domain. Moving with the arrow keys on the Fire TV remote, click on it to enter the official Kodi page.
- Once in it, scroll the courses until you reach the menu with the three lines in the upper right corner. Here, when you click, a sub-menu will be displayed in which you can see, among other options, the “Download” option. Select this with the cursor to enter it.
- Now go scrolling until you see the section of available operating systems. Select the Android icon.
- Within this new screen, the Kodi website gives us different download options. You will have to select with the cursor the one of “ARMV7A (32BIT)” , which is the one corresponding to the 32-bit ARM processors, that is, the version compatible with our Amazon Fire TV.
- A Pop-Up menu will appear in which we will have to select “Leave page” . Don’t worry, this means we’ll go to the download section.
- It will automatically start to download the selected Kodi version to our team. At the end, a new screen will appear asking us if we want to install the application. Click on “Install” to confirm and finish the process.
If you follow this step-by-step process at this time, Kodi will be among the applications installed on your Amazon device.
If you do not know too well to locate it, you will only have to go to the section of applications installed on the computer. This will be in a different place depending on the interface version your Fire TV has. Here are two videos in which we take a “guided tour” through the entire system in the two versions that you can own.
First steps on Kodi
If this is the first time you use this service on a computer, it may have been something lost right now.
Although on our website we have already made several articles in which we show you some tricks to get the most out of this service, let us show you some first steps:
Put Kodi in Spanish
The first time we log into Kodi it should automatically detect our default language. But, in the event that this fails and you find the interface in English, you only need to follow these steps to change the language to Spanish:
- Enter the settings menu (gear) .
- Access the “Interface” section and then enter the «Regional» sub menu.
- Here you can change the language to Spanish or even the keyboard layout to QWERTY so that it has the letter Ñ.
How to install Add-Ons on Kodi
To install extensions or Add-ons in Kodi it is as simple as:
- In the Kodi side menu, scroll down until you see the “Add-ons” section. Here we will have access to all the information about these extensions.
- From the new sidebar you will have to go up to the icon in the shape of an open box and click on it.
- Again we will display a new menu in which we will have to select the “Search” option to, as its name suggests, open the Add-ons search engine.
- Write the name of YTube, for example, and click on “Ok” so that Kodi will show you all the Add-ons related to your search.
- Select one of them, click on it to access it and then click on “Install” so that it becomes part of your installed Add-ons.
In this way you can install the extensions for Kodi that you know the name of. If you want to know more, you can take a look at the Add-Ons section of its official website, or take a look at the rest of the articles that we have made on our website about this application.
