Record TiviMate TV programs on Firestick with external storage

[@renegarcia9609]

Great video! I was struggling with this and now I know why. Got my bluetooth keyboard on order now 👍🏽. Thank you!

[@elpinosero3]

Awesome! Glad to hear my video helped you out! 🎉

[@LouisBlanchard]

1:42 thanks for clearing up the mystery of the file picker workings 😂 on the final "select folder" action I thought dark blue was to highlight to select, but it was light blue instead😮 it drove me crazy, but I watched your video second by second, pausing, rewinding until I got it😊 my stuff: firestick 4k max 2nd gen, otg cable, independently powered FreeAgent GoFlex 2 TB USB 3.0 3.5-inch External Hard Drive formatted FAT32 Fire OS 8

[@elpinosero3]

Happy to make you happy😀

[@jerryandrade4431]

Exactly what I was looking for. Still a little tricky with the keyboard, but got it to work. Thank you so much.

[@elpinosero3]

You're most welcome :-)

[@xelrod7062]

Awesome! Solved my exact issue and probably the same for many. I could not figure out why I couldn't change the path to record the onto the USB - connecting a keyboard to access the folders that the remote couldn't did the trick! FYI, I was using the Firestick 4K.

[@elpinosero3]

Thanks, happy that my video helped you out.

[@MartinCaprani]

Thanks so much this helped me achieve exactly what I wanted I now have a 2Tb flash drive connected to my Firestick and I can now record 3 tv shows at a time no issues. Well explained Video ... Highly recommend you boys!!

[@elpinosero3]

Thank you so much, happy to help!

[@plastastic]

Great vid, very clear and well explained. Got my external storage working.

[@elpinosero3]

Thanks, glad that you got it working. New videos are being uploaded to odysee.com/@PinosBytes:0 because of YT's ridiculous way of judging videos and the very limited opportunity to appeal.

[@markjvb]

Thank you for the video. I am stuck on the menu you select with the hamburger. I can see my USB stick but Tab doesn't move the cursor down to it to select. Ideas?

[@markjvb]

Nevermind I found out. Pressing tab then space selects it but it never really highlights. Works now :-} Thanks

[@elpinosero3]

Glad you found it. It's a bit annoying that you can't see the cursor move. I mentioned it in the video.

[@68liljoe]

Where do you hook the keyboard up for the firestick?

[@elpinosero3]

I showed that in the beginning of the video

[@russelldye5506]

awesome

[@elpinosero3]

Thank you, comments like this make it all worthwhile.

[@KeemReviewz]

Great vid. When i start the recording, do i have to leave tivimate app in the foreground? Or will it still be recording if i press the home button to exit the app?

[@elpinosero3]

It should continue to work. When you program a recording and then turn of the Firestick with the remote, the recording will start as planned.

[@saxonrdog]

Any way to keep the fire stick from turning off while I'm at work and want to record a program during the day?

[@lanjohnson4008]

Hi it records the files but when I play back I get errors ..any ideas why ?

[@elpinosero3]

Could be a faulty storage device

[@stevehoop3175]

Can you please help me. I have a Firestick 4K Max and have a 2 terabyte external hard drive. I let the Firestick format this drive using the device option. My Firestick see's the drive but Tivimate doesn't see it when I try to set it up to record to the external drive. What am I doing wrong?

[@elpinosero3]

You can use a 2TB drive, but it has to be SSD because of its lower power consumption.

[@LouisBlanchard]

I connected a FreeAgent GoFlex 2TB USB 3.0 3.5-inch External Hard Drive to the otg cable and recording fine. But remember this external drive has an independent power supply👍 enjoyed your video@@elpinosero3

[@stevehoop3175]

I am using a Seagate One Touch 2TB External Hard Drive HDD - Silver USB 3.0 and a Mission USB Power Cable. I can see it on the Firestick it's just Tivimate that won't see it. Question: should I have formatted the whole 2 tb drive as fat 32?

[@elpinosero3]

@@stevehoop3175 I connected a FAT32 drive and let the Firestick format it as external storage. After that follow the video part about system picker.

[@reklovjj]

Can the recordings be watched in another device and offline?

[@elpinosero3]

As the USB drive is FAT32 formatted, you can use it on your PC and view the contents using VLC. Unfortunately, I couldn't watch it on another device like Chromecast with Google TV.

[@reklovjj]

@@elpinosero3 thanks yet was wondering if Tivimate can launch offline thus possibly watching recordings offline as well

[@elpinosero3]

If you mean that you can start TiviMate without internet connection and the watch your recording, no. The Fire TV home would be unavailable thus opening TiviMate is impossible.

[@reklovjj]

@@elpinosero3 thanks

[@elpinosero3]

@@reklovjj Always a pleasure to be able to help

[@GeeksAndGamingNetwork]

You should have pointed out that just adding a USB drive doesn't work on all firesticks...older models of the firestick require coding through ADB shell to enable it to read USB drives... although, today, this would be difficult to do since Amazon has disabled any and all ADB access to older firesticks...however, the newer firesticks starting with the max and lite don't require any coding. They can read USB drives out of the box. As for the recordings you don't necessarily need a keyboard to select the curser icons. It depends on the file manager you use...the most recommended and easiest to use is ES file explorer which is not the one you're using here.... Also, you can indeed watch more than one program while recording another...it all depends on the strength of your bandwidth. The higher the bandwidth the better your chances of getting a clean recording...provided you have a good IPTV provider to begin with.

[@elpinosero3]

Thank you for your feedback. So actually you invalidate your comment about the USB drive.... As I noted in the video, I haven't found any other way to control the cursor. I'll see if it works with the remote control, once I install ES File Explorer. You can only watch multiple programs on 1 account at once, if your provider gives you that option. If he doesn't, you will get interrupted recordings and you will also have intermittent playback when watching live TV.

[@GeeksAndGamingNetwork]

​@@elpinosero3 how do you figure what I said about the USB drive is not true? It is true. Older model firesticks won't read USB drives unless you code it to do so through ADB shell...there are several videos on how to do this by other tech enthusiast...you can't just plug a USB drive and it will work as you showed here... if you used a 4k max or lite then you should have mentioned that so you don't get questions from viewers saying it doesn't work for them. As for recording and watching another show, it has nothing to do with your provider. It has to do with your bandwidth, otherwise it wouldn't record at all instead of getting crashes and intermittent recordings... I think you're confusing paying for more than 1 connection with the ability to record and watch a different source...having more than 1 connection is simply to have access on more than 1 TV...meaning you can watch on a TV or on a tablet or phone at the same time if you choose... as such, I have been able to use the multi view option on tivimate to view 2 channels in a split box which works great during football season.

[@elpinosero3]

I did not mean that what you was wrong or untrue, but you said this: "although, today, this would be difficult to do since Amazon has disabled any and all ADB access to older firesticks." So I think there is no need in mentioning it. As for recording, I have a 1000 Mbps up and down connection and when I record a program and simultaneously watch another, the recording has interruptions or stops altogether while the broadcast I am watching also has freezes. I have observed this with multiple providers. And I have quite some years of experience. There are providers where you can have multiple connections to one account, then it does work. So it has nothing to do with bandwidth.

[@GeeksAndGamingNetwork]

@@elpinosero3 once again, you don't seem to understand. If there are a lot more old firestick users than new firestick users than a distinction needs to be made about their features or lack there of... it's why PC software and games have "minimum and recommended requirements" listed when you buy a game...they can't say "this will work on your PC" because they know not everybody has the same specs on their PC... As for recording,I guess we're at an empass then cause I can do everything you say you can't do with 1 connection... you'll have to take it up with your ISP provider then.

[@kevyben6772]

​@@elpinosero3 I'm from Trinidad and I can also record while watching a different Channel on Tivimate and it works fine for me

[@GeeksAndGamingNetwork]

Elpinosero3 - looks like you blocked all replies to you, but there is since there are a lot more people with older firesticks than newer ones...by not even mentioning the distinction you're implying that it works on all firesticks, which it doesn't... I'm not trying to offend you, just giving you pointers on how to make a more informative video.

[@elpinosero3]

@GeeksAndGamingNetwork I am not aware of blocking anyone and I do appreciate your comments, I will take it into account