Freeview Plus on a Firestick?

J_B

Our Samsung smart TV is a little elderly but works well with most things. We can't get the latest C5 catch up app since they changed it but we have  a Firestick, so we use that.

However, we note that more modern TV's have Freeview Plus with the option, for example, 'press green to watch from the start'.

Is it possible to get Freeview Plus on our Firestick?

baza52

https://www.techowns.com/freeview-on-firestick/  not sure if its normal Freeview or the plus version

Neil_Jones

Freeview Plus is just Freeview with all the catch-up stuff bolted on; in an attempt to put it all in one place and look connected.

https://www.freeview.co.uk/freeview-play

Nothing there you can't get with the appropriate apps on a separate device, except you lose the whole connectivity thing but may be no biggie.

JJ_Egan

The Play bit is not really user friendly .

J_B

baza52 said:

https://www.techowns.com/freeview-on-firestick/  not sure if its normal Freeview or the plus version

Finally got round to trying this, but I'm stuck!

Got it installed quite easily, but then ....

FV wants to access your location.

Whether I click allow or deny, it says 'can't find your location, please enter your postcode' and presents me with five dashes to type in my postcode ..... but then there's no pop up keyboard.

🤷‍♂️

flaneurs_lobster

The Amazon Fire TV app for Android (it's a wizzy remote control replacement) includes a keyboard. Might be worth a go.

J_B

gavinbaxter said:

The Amazon Fire TV app for Android (it's a wizzy remote control replacement) includes a keyboard. Might be worth a go.

Is that something I put on my phone that controls the Firestick?

flaneurs_lobster

J_B said:

gavinbaxter said:

The Amazon Fire TV app for Android (it's a wizzy remote control replacement) includes a keyboard. Might be worth a go.

Is that something I put on my phone that controls the Firestick?

Correct. 

J_B

Thanks all for the advice.

Downloaded the FV app

Downloaded the Fire app to my phone.

Opened the FV app, it still asked for postcode, opened the phone app, selected the keyboard but then nothing happened when I typed letters! Numbers worked fine so I entered 9999 as the postcode and away it went.

BUT

Opened the FV app and tried to load live and/or catch up but although left and right cursor would work, up and down wouldn't (on phone app or F-stik remote) ... so couldn't access any of the menus to navigate anything.