I read that some users had success with the original Fire TV mounting an external hard drive and running nzbget mobile. Is this possible with the Amazon Fire TV 2?
I am interested in doing the following on a rooted Amazon Fire TV 2.
1. Mounting an external hard drive, ext4.
-How do I this? Can I mount a drive with adbFire? does this install a script to mount the drive every time the device boots? or I read that some users installed stickmount to mount drives. What should I use?
2. Install SAMBA
-Can this be done with adbFire? or how do i achieve this? to share the media on an external drive attached to the Fire TV 2.
3. Install nzbget mobile.
-Does this work for the Fire TV 2? Install from playstore? Sideload nzbget for android .apk?
4. Install python for android
-to run nzbget post-processing scripts
I am pretty new to the Fire TV customization so all guidance on how to do the above would be appreciated. I have currently rooted my device and have installed FireStarter and Kodi.
Thanks in advance.
great question(s)!
I hope someone has an answer for us
But from what I have read so far is that only USB flash drives and microSD cards work. However, I am hoping, like you say, there may be a work around.
For now I am using AirPin(Pro), which is doing the trick for streaming movies from my PC. Fyi, if you use this app, you don't need the "sending" app/program for your PC (maybe not). I also have a 1TB external connected to my PC that I am able to stream from, but AirPin won't find it via the app on the AFTV2, you'll have right click (PC) on whatever movie you want to stream, and select> "play to...". AirPin also will stream to my bluray in the other room simultaniously
1Xfan said:
I hope someone has an answer for us
But from what I have read so far is that only USB flash drives and microSD cards work. However, I am hoping, like you say, there may be a work around.
For now I am using AirPin(Pro), which is doing the trick for streaming movies from my PC. Fyi, if you use this app, you don't need the "sending" app/program for your PC (maybe not). I also have a 1TB external connected to my PC that I am able to stream from, but AirPin won't find it via the app on the AFTV2, you'll have right click (PC) on whatever movie you want to stream, and select> "play to...". AirPin also will stream to my bluray in the other room simultaniously
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Unrooted, it can read from any FAT32 formatted (not exFAT) portable drive as long as you provide external power to it via a Y cable or hub. Otherwise, it will only read from solid state media like USB sticks.
Reads my 2TB passport drive fine, no root required. You might need to hunt around for a tool to format that size drive in FAT32.
Claude Koch said:
Unrooted, it can read from any FAT32 formatted (not exFAT) portable drive as long as you provide external power to it via a Y cable or hub. Otherwise, it will only read from solid state media like USB sticks.
Reads my 2TB passport drive fine, no root required. You might need to hunt around for a tool to format that size drive in FAT32.
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Try "mini tool partion wizard (free)"; google download. Caution: you could format the wrong drive! I use for SDcards too... search youtube too
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I have a portable hdd with about 90gb of music stored to it. I mount it to my rooted a500, and it works fine, to an extent. I can select a song, which it will play, but I can't find a music player which is able to use the /sda1 mount to manage the music folders, only from the SD cards.
Does anyone here have a solution, or know of a player that will do this for me?
Thanks in advance.
Same here. Im waiting for my iconia 500 and i have a 320gb external hdd with music+playlist (.zpl, which ill prob convert to .m3u if i have to). I'll need a player to handle my music and playlists via USB. Any recommendations?
Did you try Power Amp?
And I wouldn't search for sda but instead go to the source (/mnt/usb_drive or whatever it's called). It works fine from my thumb drive so I don't see why it wouldn't work my a HDD.
I did try Poweramp. In the select folders option, there are only selections for mnt/sdcard/xxx and mnt/external_SD/xxx. Since the hdd is formatted in ntfs, it is mounted as mnt/sda1, not mnt/USB_storage.
I could try having the hdd formatted as fat, but I have found the mnt/USB_storage to be very unreliable. It seems to need a reset very often in order to read the contents of a thumb drive, and also with the large amount of files, also seems to read them very slowly.
I bit the bullet and formatted my hdd to fat32. I used fat32formatter, nice and quick.
The a500 needed a reboot to read the files on the hdd, and I find disconnecting and re-connecting it, does require another re-boot to read again.
Poweramp and winamp both are no able to read the hdd, but took about 4 hours to scan the files and make a library from them.
I haven't added new music to the library, I'm really hoping that it won't need to re-scan all the files again. Fingers crossed.
Also looking for a solution to this, let, me know if anyone has a good organized music player.
saggsy said:
I did try Poweramp. In the select folders option, there are only selections for mnt/sdcard/xxx and mnt/external_SD/xxx. Since the hdd is formatted in ntfs, it is mounted as mnt/sda1, not mnt/USB_storage.
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I'm using Usb Mount All from the market which creates a symlink to mnt/sdcard/sda. All my apps can see and write on sda that way.
That's why I prefer Mount all over Drive mount.
Thanks bbivk, that app is exactly what I should have been using, it's so easy now.
I keep seeing posts of people that use the Nexus Media Importer application to connect their flash drives to their Nexus 10 in order to see files. I just wondering if this has worked for everyone..I saw that some people were having issues...as am I. Whenever I connect my flash drive i can view the files but can't play the videos...............and absolutely nothing happens when I connect my keyboard through usb-OTG.
Any thoughts???
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I keep seeing posts of people that use the Nexus Media Importer application to connect their flash drives to their Nexus 10 in order to see files. I just wondering if this has worked for everyone..I saw that some people were having issues...as am I. Whenever I connect my flash drive i can view the files but can't play the videos...............and absolutely nothing happens when I connect my keyboard through usb-OTG.
Any thoughts???
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What happens when you click on the files when viewing in NMI? What files are you trying to play? Have you verified that you can play the files directly from your nexus?
Maybe with the video player you are using it doesnt support the file you are trying to watch? Has worked for me so far, connecting SD card, flash drive and HDD.
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Maybe with the video player you are using it doesnt support the file you are trying to watch? Has worked for me so far, connecting SD card, flash drive and HDD.
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i get the same problem. nothing happens when i connect my usb with my n10. any help??
Try StickMount https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.stickmount&hl=de
It works like a charm for me but unfortunatly you have to be rooted to use it. Also I think the N10 has problems dealing with NTFS out of the box so try FAT32 or ext3/4.
Good luck.
There are links on the StickMount playstore page to download files that allow full usage (r/w) of both exFAT and NTFS formatted volumes. The current version of StickMount works 100% for me.
Nexus Media Importer works great - no need to Root!
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Try StickMount https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.stickmount&hl=de
It works like a charm for me but unfortunatly you have to be rooted to use it. Also I think the N10 has problems dealing with NTFS out of the box so try FAT32 or ext3/4.
Good luck.
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Nexus Media Importer (vrs 4.0.3 ) works perfectly for my N10 - YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE ROOTED!! I've only used FAT32 USB sticks and it works as advertised and it's awesome Make sure you download the paid version ($2.95 or so CND). Expand the Overview in the Google Play Description by clicking MORE and there are youtube videos showing the proper process, it works great and I'm thrilled to get the extra space and watch movies right from the USB stick using MX Player or copy movies, pics, music etc. to internal storage if I want to. Excellent app - five stars! I will be trying a NTFS Formated stick so I can use > 4Gb files (mkv prob) but haven't yet. It does claim to handle NTFS formatted drives.
I'm trying to store my Roms for emulators and movies and other things on an external hard drive connected to the nexus player. When using ES File Explorer I can see my external hard drive, but when I'm trying to load games from it I cant locate the files or the external hard drive. It seems I can only see it using the file explorer other than that I can not see it other wise. Is there anyway around this?
I use stickmount (off a rooted Nexus player with superuser). it's not on the play store. use google to find the apk for it. you MUST load stickmount everytime you turn on the device. i usually don't have the drive hooked up until i load stickmount after turning the device on (and making sure i see the onscreen notice that stickmount is given superuser. i can then see the mounted drive with the emulators.
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I use stickmount (off a rooted Nexus player with superuser). it's not on the play store. use google to find the apk for it. you MUST load stickmount everytime you turn on the device. i usually don't have the drive hooked up until i load stickmount after turning the device on (and making sure i see the onscreen notice that stickmount is given superuser. i can then see the mounted drive with the emulators.
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+1 for stickmount. I didn't want to format my 2 TB drive so I rooted and use stickmount. You can configure it to autostart at boot and auto mount when a drive is detected. Works great for me.
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Great Android 6.0, almost all my wishes are fulfilled.
ONLY ONE big problem, my external HDD's (and PARTITIONS) are indeed now recognized in
the SETTINGS of the Shield,
BUT NO other app recognized my external HDD's , so I cannot play files, fotos, movies from extrenal
HDD anymore. vlc PLAYER, Es file explorer, Archos videoplayer, Kodi, None of them!!
with lollipop I could play almost everything.
Any ideas? any Tips?
independence1 said:
Great Android 6.0, almost all my wishes are fulfilled.
ONLY ONE big problem, my external HDD's (and PARTITIONS) are indeed now recognized in
the SETTINGS of the Shield,
BUT NO other app recognized my external HDD's , so I cannot play files, fotos, movies from extrenal
HDD anymore. vlc PLAYER, Es file explorer, Archos videoplayer, Kodi, None of them!!
with lollipop I could play almost everything.
Any ideas? any Tips?
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Chekout the permissions... if it does not help, format it in the pc, and plug it again.
Hey guys,
I am having trouble mounting NAS drive(publicly available on my home network) to Shield TV. First of all that NAS server is not visible when I try to add Network storage from settings so I have to add it manually. I tried giving smb://<ip_address>/<public_share>, smb://<host_name>/<public_share> and same without smb: but no luck so far!
Am I missing something here? Has anybody had any success doing this?
- B
Did you already try ES Explorer or Kodi? Does it work there?
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Did you already try ES Explorer or Kodi? Does it work there?
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Yes, those work, but I want to mount a NAS drive to which I can download games to and play later. I have got the basic version so it comes with 16 gig(about 11 gig which can be used actually) of ssd.
I can put USB as well, but my NAS drive has way more capacity than USB.
My question was if you can mount your NAS with ES Explorer or Kodi.
I maybe wrong but I don't think this is possible.
I would simply add an external USB 3.0 hard drive to your shield for the added storage as they are dirt cheap now.
I added a 1TB drive at a cost of $80 CDN (probably cheaper in the US !)
As an FYI In the past I tried USB 3.0 thumb drives and Class 10+ SD cards as external storage options but the performance simply wasn't there for me.
The USB 3 external hard drive works great !! I wouldn't even know it was connected !
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Yes, those work, but I want to mount a NAS drive to which I can download games to and play later. I have got the basic version so it comes with 16 gig(about 11 gig which can be used actually) of ssd.
I can put USB as well, but my NAS drive has way more capacity than USB.
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With ES Explorer I can copy files between the shield and my NAS.
If you have root, try the patched version of CifsManager, available here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53760495&postcount=537
For share options I use "ro,iocharset=utf8".
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My question was if you can mount your NAS with ES Explorer or Kodi.
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Yes, I did it with ES Explorer, but just to explore network drive and not actually mount it to Shield TV. That is good for copying back and forth to NAS from/to Shield TV internal drive.
By looking at replies here, I feel its better to attach my external USB drive until the day it is possible to mount NAS.
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If you have root, try the patched version of CifsManager, available here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53760495&postcount=537
For share options I use "ro,iocharset=utf8".
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Thanks but I am not very much confident about rooting to my new Shield TV right now . I would just use my external USB drive for now.
I've done it for all of my phones which I've used so far though.
I got the network shares to mount on my shield the other night.
If you're using linux for your nas, you will need to start the 'nmbd' service on your machine. This is part of samba and listens to NetBIOS requests, which the Nvidia Shield appears to be using to discover smb shares on the network.
Hi, I had the same problem and it was cause by the synology's firewall.
So, i create a new rule with my shield s IP on all the synology s port.
My Diskstation was immediately seen by the shield.
Hope i helped you