So we’ve all had out refrigerator moments where it boinks onto you to your mind that
you either forgot to get you firetv stick remote along with dongle or just straight
up lost it like tears in the rain .now you’ve got no flipping clue how you’d connect ur
fire tv stick to a new WiFi without a remote?
Well i’m Vamsi, and, turns out, you CAN use your smartphone to connect your firestick
to a new wifi, and not just that, if you’ve lost your FS remote and not in the mood to
buy a new one, I’ll show you how .So that you can use your FS without a remote forever
until you lose your phone and then you’d get a new one moving on…..
before we come to a solution, let’s understand the problem first.
So, the problem here is, we don’t have the remote.
For which we can use Fire TV remote app for your smartphone, to control firestick.
But, it only works when both phone and firestick are on the same WiFi network.
And not to forget, your Fire TV Stick is already set to work on your home WiFi network – which,
obviously, you did not bring with you.[a]
So, to get this thing work, you’ll need two things
1.
2 smartphones, one to create hotspot and one to control firestick, as one smartphone alone
can’t connect to its own wireless hotspot for its network connection
2.
You need to know the SSID and password of the last network you connected your Amazon
Fire Stick to[b]
Once you have both of them, it’s pretty simple
First, we will use first device to create a hotspot and set the SSID and password of
hotspot the same as your home WiFi network, the one that the Fire TV is already connected
to.
And then we can install the fire tv remote app on the second phone, connect it to the
old hotspot and use it control firestick.
Once, we are able to control fs with a phone app, we’ll easily connect the firestick
to the new WiFi network.
[c]
BTW, if you haven’t we publish videos on how to make most of your streaming devices
like firestick, android tv, apple tv and what not.
So, i’m not gonna be like “ please subscribe and like the video blah blah “ cos if you
really like what we do here i know you will.
With that being said, let’s get back on track .
1.
So, here we have two phones.[d] On the first phone, we’ll set up a wireless hotspot.
(you can also use other devices to setup Wireless hotspot, however since iPhone doesn’t let
you change hotspot name, you will either need Windows PC, Mac or Android.
[e]
Assuming you have Android, go to settings > wifi and setup SSID and password same as
your home wifi network.
The one that the Fire TV Stick was already connected to.
For this instance, my wifi name is - Batcave and password robin204.
Obviously, your home WiFi name would have been different.[f]
The moment you start the hotspot, you’ll notice your firestick, will instantly recognize
it and connect to the internet.[g]
2.
Next, take out your other phone (if don’t have one, borrowed it from someone, you just
need it for a few minutes), this could be an Android or iPhone.
And install and run the Amazon Fire TV app on [h]
3.
Once the app is installed on the second device, connect to the wireless hotspot you created
in the first device i.e.
Batcave[i]
4.
Once connected, open the firestick app in the second phone and you will be able to see
and control your Firestick listed there.
[j] You can go home, move around using the touch
or even use the keyboard or voice control to type stuff, pretty cool right.
Now, the party is still not over.
Remember, this is all running on limited mobile data.
1.
(take out the 2nd phone out of frame and bring it in front of TV and then control it)
5.
So, to connect your firestick to new remote, use the second device, to navigate to firestick
settings > network and connect to the new Wifi, i.e. your wherever you are staying or
your hotel wifi.
2. (using the 2nd phone go to settings, and connect to 91sp wifi)
6.
Once your firestick goes to a new network, you won’t be able to control it from the
second device, 3.
Unable to control f.s
but that’s easy, connect your second phone to current wifi (the one that your firestick
to at the moment) and you are good to go.
4.
Go back to top down view and connect 2nd to 91sp wifi
In case if it’s your hotel wifi, that requires username and password to connect to wifi,
you can do the same, i.e. connect the second device to a new wifi network and use the keyword
in the app, to type in the username and password.
5.
Bring the 2nd phone out of frame and infront of tv, and login to 91sp wifi on tv
6.
Move around the home screen and all that, to show it’s working.
So, yeah, this is pretty much it.
I hope, this works out for you.
Alternatively, if you have lost your fs remote and are in no mood to buy another FS remote
ever.
Here’s what you can do.
You can borrow another firestick remote from your friend for a few minutes, (if someone
has it nearby) and use that to set up your FS to new Wifi.
Pretty much all firestick remote works with each other.
You just have to pair it once.
[k]
To do so, Hold the Menu, Back and left arrow buttons down simultaneously on the remote
for 10 seconds or so and Reboot your Amazon Fire Stick.
(7.
Do this infront of tv and see if you get a message on tv screen after reboot)
This should connect the new remote with your fs, then use it to connect your fs to a new
wifi network.
(8.
Use the new remote to control f.s )
Once it’s done, you can return the remote to your friend, just make sure to unpair it.
But how do you control your fs without a remote?
Well, you can either install the app on your phone or if your TV has HDMI CEC, you can
even use your TV remote to control your FS. [l]
(9.
Shot of controlling tv from app, and tv remote using hdmi cec
To setup firstick with HDMI cec, check out our other video, we have done.
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leave a comment.
[a]simple animation [b]find out a creative way to show this
[c]simple animation [d]Top-down.
Slide in 2 Android phones in the frame, with their screen facing down.
[e]Flip one phone to show the screen.
[f]Zoom in on one phone, and follow the instructions.
[g]zoom out, and pan the camera to TV, the screen should TV shows thumbnail instead of
no signal.
[h]again switch back to two phones, and this time flips the other phone.
[i]install the app on other phone and open it.
[j]open the app [k]a quick shot of hand burrowoing a remote
from someone.
[l]use the app again to control the phone.