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How to set up firestick without remote?

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Robin Khokhar
How to set up firestick without remote?

Amazon launched a wide variety of products under its brand name amazon basic’s like TVs, OTGs, microwaves, Amazon Fire TV stick, etc.


What is the Amazon Fire TV stick?

Today people like to watch new movies, web series, TV shows, etc on their TV, But many people do not have smart TVs, to solve this problem amazon launched the amazon fire TV stick with the help of amazon fire TV stick people make their old TVs smart.


Amazon launched a wide variety of Firesticks like amazon firestick lite, amazon fire stick 4K, amazon firestick 2021, amazon fire stick 2020, etc.


Amazon Firestick allows people to watch new OTT content on their TV easily. You only need to connect your TV to the internet and plug the amazon fire stick into the HDMI port of the TV.


How to set up Firestick without Remote?

Amazon Firestick also offers a voice control feature. On the other hand, mishaps happen with you, and you lose your remote control to connect to the internet. It does not mean you cannot control your TV without the remote. There are several ways you can control your TV. You can also connect Firestick to new Wi-fi without a Remote.


Control Firestick using your smartphone.

When you lose your remote in this situation you can control your TV using your smartphone by installing Fire TV app on your smartphone.

Download the Fire TV app on your mobile and install it.

You have to connect your phone and Firestick with the same internet connection.

After a successful connection, you can see the control of your Firestick on your smartphone.


Connect Firestick using Echo or Echo Dot.

Another possibility is that you can also use your Firestick using Echo or Echo Dot. After re-establishing a connection with the Firestick, you don’t need a smartphone to use your Firestick, you can easily control it by using Echo or Echo dot.


Connect Firestick using (HDMI CEC) port.

It is not compulsory that you have two smartphones or two smart devices. You can also go for another method that uses the principle of HDMI CEC.

You can download remotes of smart TVs, Apple TVs, and others, by using many third-party online stores.

All these remotes work on the HDMI CEC principle, you only need to connect the remote to the HDMI port of the TV.

But not all TVs have the CEC feature so you need to check if your TV model has the CEC feature.

How you check your TVs has this feature.

You need to go to the TV settings then display and sound and find a feature named HDMI CEC if you find it then enable it.

After enabling the feature you can connect your universal remote with the TV by using HDMI CEC you can use to control the Firestick.

This feature also has a downside: you cannot use the voice control feature.


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