Unfortunately, after about 5 years and 5 builds of MC, Gizmo still doesn't work with the most popular medium out there... Firestick (or FireTV). I've championed this cause for a while, and will throw some of my observations out there, in case someone comes across this.
- Gizmo can be installed (sideloaded) into Firestick, and Play/Pause works, but the rewind, fast forward, and next/previous won't work. It also does not recall where you left off on videos.
- Panel can be viewed through Amazon Silk, but it's not a great experience on Firestick either, as you're trying to use a mouse in a mouseless environment.
- If you have the MC DLNA/UPNP server going, you can use other players to access it, but these are not great:
- Kodi has never worked well on any of my 4k Firesticks. It crashes regularly and doesn't play everything.
- VLC works well enough to navigate and play videos, and is what I use mostly, but it's not the prettiest interface.
Unfortunately, there are other solutions that do play well with Firestick (Emby, Jellyfin, etc.) but I live and die by my smartlists.
Maybe the answer is as simple as finding a better skin/layout for Panel or Gizmo. Or maybe I need to stop whining and just go ahead and build a Firestick App specifically for JRiver's API.
I'm open to suggestions, but since I dropped a thread on this years ago with no responses at all, I'm starting to think either not enough MC users use Firesticks, or no one cares. With a new release each year, and the money from selling new releases each year, you'd think this would at least be addressed, if not resolved.
