[mythtv-users] FireTV 4K stick

[John Pilkington]

On 24/08/2019 16:34, Peter Bennett wrote:
> 
> 
> On 8/24/19 3:26 AM, John Pilkington wrote:
>> I have tried to install Peter's new Android-studio based build in 
>> Fedora 29 with KDE, but no luck so far.  The ikon displays but 
>> attempts to activate just return almost immediately to the ikon. 
>> That's after an adb install of the posted .apk. 
> 
> I just ran another test with a fire stick 4k, first I uninstalled MythTV 
> leanback frontend and then installed the apk that I posted on 
> bintray.com. Unfortunately it has the same icon as the normal 
> mythfrontend, I will have to fix that. When highlighting it you can see 
> the name displayed so that you know which is which.
> 
> If I select the myth leanback frontend icon in the fire stick 4k for the 
> first time, it opens immediately to its setup page where you have to 
> supply the backend ip address.
> 
> I don't know why this does not work for you. I suggest check in the 
> installed applications that the correct one is installed.
> 
> Perhaps you have a bad adb. The one that comes with android studio is 
> incompatible with one that comes with ubuntu. If you have android 
> studio, run adb from the installed Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb. You 
> need to specify the port by running
> 
> adb connect [ip address of fire stick]:5555
> 
> If you still cannot launch the leanback frontend, run adb log while 
> trying to launch it and see if there is a relevant error message.
> 
> Peter

Replying to an earlier post about the Myth Leanback Frontend.  It 
sort-of works when it feels like it.

The original mythfrontend on the device, and its other apps, are TTBOMCK 
unaffected.

Since I had installed Android-studio I tried, as Peter suggested, its 
version of adb, which is different from that supplied by F29.  I ran it 
from a konsole tab with 
'PATH=/home/john/Android/Sdk/platform-tools:$PATH' and 'adb --help 
worked' , but it seems unable to connect to the firestick, even after a 
device restart.  I got

$ adb connect 192.168.1.66:5555
server version (40) doesn't match the client (41); killing...
*failed to connect
daemon started successfully
failed to connect to '192.168.1.66:5555'  : Connection refused

so I couldn't use that version to do a reinstall of Peter's build or get 
a log from the old install.

studio version of adb is 1.0.41 version 29.0.2-5738569

and for /usr/bin/adb 1.0.40 version c7815d675

John P