Firestick

How To Setup Firestick or Fire TV

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4 years ago

September 13, 2019

Amazon Firestick is one of the most popular streaming devices available in the market. It converts your TV into a smart TV. You just need a TV with HDMI port and an active internet connection to make it a smart TV. Amazon Firestick allows you to watch all the hours of contents available in it. It ties up with major online media apps like Amazon Prime Video, Hotstar, Netflix, Gaana and much more. Here are the steps on How to setup Firestick or Fire TV.

How To Setup Firestick or Fire TV

The steps that given below will help you to set-up Fire TV or FireStick in few minutes.

Amazon Firestick box contains the below inside it:

FireStick
Alexa Voice Remote with 2 AAA Batteries
Power Cord
HDMI Extender
Manuals

Step 1: First open the package and take the remote from the package and insert the given AAA size batteries into the remote.

Step 2: Take the Power cord and plug it into a power supply. Take the other end of the Power cord and plug it into the Firestick. Plug the HDMI port into your TV. Use the HDMI extender if you are not able to insert the firestick directly on the TV.

Step 3: Now take your TV remote and change the source to the HDMI port which you have plugged in.

Step 4: Normally, the FireStick or Fire TV detects the Firetv remote automatically when the device boots. If the remote does not get paired automatically, you have to pair it manually. To pair the remote you have to keep your remote close to your FireStick and make a press on the Home button continuously for 10 seconds. Then a message appears at the bottom of the screen as acknowledging the pairing. If you don’t receive the message just press and hold the home button until you receive it.

Step 5: Once remote pairing is done and pressed the play button to start the setup.

Step 6: Follow the steps shown on the TV screen for selecting the language as well as the network.

Step 7: After selecting the network connection, you have to sign in to your Amazon account. In the case, if you don’t have Amazon account, you have to create the account as well. To operate the Amazon FireStick or Fire TV Amazon account is necessary.

Step 8: After the login, the device will show you a small video of Amazon FireStick or Fire TV. It will show you what all are the features available on Fire TV.

Step 9: After that video, the Firestick offers you some option to implement the Parental Controls on the device. Here if you apply this, some contents will need numeric Pin that should be entered for viewing. Moreover, your PIN would block the potential purchases from being made.

These are the ways on How To Setup Firestick or Fire TV. Thank you for reading the post.