topic Bravia Sync - Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K in Android TV

Bravia Sync - Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K

Graeme1978 — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 15:37:22 GMT

I've recently purchased an Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K and connected it to my XF8096 TV.

I'm having a small problem with the Bravia Sync. When I press the Home button on the Fire Stick, my understanding is that it is supposed to switch input to the HDMI port that the Fire Stick is plugged into (HDMI4) but that doesn't happen. I have to manually select HDMI4 from the TV remote control.

I've gone into the Bravia Sync settings, but the Fire Stick isn't listed, and come to think of it neither was the Xbox One that was plugged into HDMI4 before the Fire Stick.

Any ideas as to what the issue might be?

Many thanks.

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rooobb — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 15:56:47 GMT

Hi @Graeme1978 did you already check that both the TV and firestick have their own HDMI-CEC setting enabled?

Step 1. Enable HDMI-CEC on Your TV
The first step in enabling HDMI-CEC is to enable it on your TV. Almost every TV brand has an alternative name for CEC, therefore you will have to find the particular name for your TV’s brand. Once you know the alterative name, look for it in your TVs settings menu and enable it. (for Sony you already know is BraviaSync)

Step 2. Click ‘Settings’ on Fire TV
CEC is enabled by default in the Fire TV but just to be sure or enable it in case you had disabled it, you have start by clicking on ‘Settings’ on your home screen.

Step 3. Click on ‘Display and Sounds’
Click on ‘Display and Settings’ and you should see the name of HDMI-CEC in the list and whether it is enabled or disabled.

Step 4. Enable HDMI-CEC.

BTW what's the use of a firestick on an AndroidTV?

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Graeme1978 — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 18:50:50 GMT

It’s definitely all enabled. With the Fire Stick running, I open the Bravia Sync menu from the Action Menu on the TV and it only sees the other 3 HDMI devices.

Given that the Xbox One never switch input automatically either I’m wondering if there’s an issue with this HDMI port? I’ll confirm the theory tomorrow by connecting the Fire Stick to another HDMI port and then see if the Bravia Sync menu can see it.

As for why the Fire Stick, having tried one I found it to be much more responsive than built-in TV apps. Everything is much slicker.

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rooobb — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 19:29:24 GMT

Xbox one X AFAIK does not support HDMICEC so it will never work. It could be that there is some other device that prevent the firestick from working.

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giocuppi — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:05:57 GMT

Just commenting on "what's the use of a firestick on an AndroidTV?":

Sony Android TV has far less apps than Amazon Fire and also does not show the Prime TV <Library> (Film purchased on Prime).

Sony TV is Google oriented and, for example, if one uses the voice search, no Amazon Prime results are displayed [at the moment I also had no Netflix results, only Google films].

On my Android phone I can see my Amazon Prime purchased TV shows and Movies therefore I expected to be able to see them also using the Sony Android TV' Amazon Prime app but this is not the case. I found, personally, that this is a major flaw.

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rooobb — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:17:47 GMT

@giocuppi

@giocuppi ha scritto:

Just commenting on "what's the use of a firestick on an AndroidTV?":

Sony Android TV has far less apps than Amazon Fire and also does not show the Prime TV <Library> (Film purchased on Prime).

Sony TV is Google oriented and, for example, if one uses the voice search, no Amazon Prime results are displayed [at the moment I also had no Netflix results, only Google films].

It is quite the opposite: both platforms are based on the same Google's Android TV but firestick has no access to Google's play store, so if you want to have all the apps available on there you should find an .apk an try to install it unless it is also available on Amazon Store.

For the search engine, it is not up to the OS but to the contents made available from the specific app, so it is up to Amazon to make them available and it seems they prefer to give a better user experience on their own product

On my Android phone I can see my Amazon Prime purchased TV shows and Movies therefore I expected to be able to see them also using the Sony Android TV' Amazon Prime app but this is not the case. I found, personally, that this is a major flaw.

Again it is not the OS that deliver the features of an app, it is an Amazon choice (personally does not impact me at all since in Italy you don't have the possibility to buy anything extra apart for what is already available with the prime subscription.

But after all it costs so few pounds/euro that if you like it it makes sense to have it.

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giocuppi — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:25:21 GMT

Grazie per la spiegazione

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rooobb — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:33:14 GMT

@giocuppi ha scritto:

Grazie per la spiegazione

😅 e perchè @giocuppi mi fai scrivere in inglese?

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giocuppi — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:35:56 GMT

Mica sapevo che tu fossi in Italia 🙃😀

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rooobb — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:37:25 GMT

Se noti c'è una bandierina sull'immagine del mio avatar

comunque la community italiana è molto più attiva di quella inglese, vieni a trovarci lì

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giocuppi — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:42:27 GMT

vista la bandierina.... pensavo fosse Messico LOL. No, non l'avevo notata, in veritá. In effetti é davvero un'eccezione che io "blogghi"; pur avendo vari cosiddetti "socials", mi cimento poco su di essi. La comunita italiana di Sony richiede un log in diverso?

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rooobb — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:44:46 GMT

Dovresti poter accedere con lo stesso ma utilizzando la base dove sei autenticato (in questo caso UK)...

https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/la-community-italiana/ct-p/it

Messico ...

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giocuppi — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:48:09 GMT

Ti ho regalato un paio di Kudos come apprezzamento

Ho cliccato sul tuo link e mi sono ritrovato in https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/la-community-italiana/ct-p/it per cui funziona. Stammi bene e grazie.

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rooobb — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:50:41 GMT

Un kudo non si nega a nessuno Spero di sentirti con le tue esperienze in italiano 😋

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giocuppi — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:54:55 GMT

Grazie e a risentirci. Spero non per problemi, che ne abbiamo giá abbastanza (scusa l'accento alla rovescia, ma la tastiera é inglese e correggere gli accenti ...).

Un saluto e Stay safe!!😉

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SteveToon — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:24:18 GMT

Hi all, after doing everything listed above I still had the same problem, the TV would turn on but it wouldn't switch to the Fire TV input. This is how I fixed it..

TV: Settings ; Watching TV ; External Inputs ; BRAVIA Sync Controls (ON) ; Bravia Sync device list (ENABLE)

(IMPORTANT) Device control keys ;

Set to TUNING KEYS this should now turn on the TV and switch to the Fire TV home screen when the Home button is pressed on the Fire TV controller.

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mishort1 — Thu, 16 May 2024 19:05:52 GMT

Try powering on the TV using the power button on the firestick. It should then respond