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Am I really THIS stupid !!!!
Hi there
I got an Amazon Fire stick a few days ago because of the recommendations of being able to use PLEX on it at decent bit rates -- but am I the ONLY person on the planet who can't make the wretched thing work. !!
The built in apps are fine -- wifi no problem -- but whenever trying to start PLEX it refers me to logon to PLEX site to enter a pin number -- as I already have an account no way to do it -- and when I try and logon to the plex TV site as required by the application I get from the android phone device -- site not found.
Now I regard myself as no Dummy with regard to typical computer problems - also have PhD in Engineering but just can't for the life of me to get this wretched device to work.
Funnily enough I did have a Google Chromecast device which people said were much more complicated to get working - but for me worked straight out of the Box.
So Peeps with Amazon fire stick
HOW DOI I GET IT TO PLAY MY LOCAL MEDIA USING PLEX media server from my NAS.
I'm stuck at the PLEX signon screen -- there's a PIN number on the TV and it says logon on another device using https://plex.tv/tv
Before I chuck the thing in the Bin anybody got any ideas before I've realized I've probably wasted 50 EUR.
The Built in apps are fine -- I just wanted this for local PLEX -- the built in CPU in theory should take load of local transcoding on my NAS server.
Thanks
If it's this complicated I can't understand how so many people RAVE over the device or have I got a 100% Brainstorm !!!!!
( There's a VLC player on the stick but on 1080p HEVC X265 it only seems to play video - so even here transcoder not working).
I think I'll give up being so nasty to GOOGLE - the device works even if sometimes the video freezes for a few seconds when playing 1080p HEVC X265 videos.
Cheers
jimbo