Posted on 03/23/2021 6:28:57 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
What happens when you click the Pluto icon? Can you post a cell-pic?
I just watched it all day Sunday on my fire tv and worked great. I mainly watched old movies.
Having the exact same problem with Pluto on smart tv via firestick. Stations show, but no programming.
Thank you. This thread is getting off to a slow start. I miss the old days.
Are you using stick or TV. I am using the Amazon fire tv edition and it worked fine on Sunday. Could be a stick problem.
I assume your using wireless to stream using the fire stick. Check you local IP address. We live in rural eastern Washington and our provider bought some new IP addresses and the next thing I knew we couldn’t access Sling, Netflix, or Prime and we would get a message that their services were only available in the US. But when we switched out phones off the internet, we could access those apps on our phones Finally I called out provider and he got the situation corrected.
Hopefully this thread will get out to the Pluto TV engineers.
Thanks for the info. I have added that to my streaming library.
Pluto has experienced a number of problems as they attempt to
upgrade their app. Not knowing your exact history, and particulars of tv, Roku(?) would suggest asking google. Don’t laugh or scorn, but the site was most helpful to Chicken Soup and me when we had Roku issues with the Pluto app
Good Luck! PS...Big screen tv Samsung here on Roku. We get Pluto just fine with or without Roku using TV+
Firestick app was often buggy for me so I stopped using it. In the settings there is a option to clear the cache of apps. Try that. I usually have to do that on some apps
Typically the problem with Fire TVs especially earlier generations is that the device get too many hungry apps loaded on to it and they bring it to its knees. I keep a pretty close eye on the amount of storage space being used and get rid of any app that we do not use often. My guess would be that if you check your storage space that you are low. I have found that if you keep about a GB in reserve that things are much more dependable. If you take off a bunch of Apps and there still is little storage space left then you an app that went rogue ate a bunch of it up and you need to do a factory reset and install only the apps that you use.
We cut the cable several years ago. We started out with a Roku, got a first generation Chromecast and then an Apple TV before switching to first generation Fire TVs and Fire TV Sticks. We have upgraded the fire sticks through the generations as they usually go on sale for ridiculously low prices on Black Friday and Prime Days. We have saved so much money vs Cable over the years that I do not even flinch when buying a new device. Our extended family including several households share subscriptions to various services.
There have been some problems on occasion with every type of “digital media players” that we have used. The people here who are strong advocates for one type or another usually do not know much about the options available. When our expensive Apple TV started having problems and overheating I assumed that it was going bad and retired it. A few months later I read that hackers had used security issues to harness the processing power of huge numbers of Apple TVs for data mining for bitcoins. Apple actively suppressed info on this but came out with security patches When I reset the when I later did a “factory reset” back to its original configuration and the patches were applied, it started working fine. By that time however everyone in our household expressed a strong preference for the Fire TV interface over both the Apple and the Roku.
We had a similar issue with our first generation FireTV Box from some of the apps we installed on it. That thing has so many options for sideloading 3rd party apps that it is not even funny, but there are some minor risks involved which when something goes wrong are typically solved with a factory reset and reinstalling just the apps that you actually use.
The last 4K TV sticks we purchased were $25 a piece. I purchased them to get the newer generation voice remotes which have all the normal functions plus volume and the ability to turn the TV on and off so we don't have to use more than one remote.
Sorry for all the typos...
“Looking to FReepers to solve technical issues?”
That was my thought. I would ask if the TV was plugged in. LOL
Delete and reinstall f possible, or do a factory reset the n your tv.
Go in and clear cache and settings on Pluto. Reboot. If it does not work, uninstall Pluto, reboot and reinstall. Works fine on my 4k sticks.
As an aside: https://github.com/Free-IPTV/Countries
Legal free iptv source. Up to you to figure out how to use it, but there are hundreds of US channels including live OAN.
Ah. Those were the days.
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