What You Need
To use Fire TV Recast, you need the following equipment:
How to Set Up a Fire TV Recast
Once you have all the necessary gear, take these steps to set up your Fire TV Recast:
Use Recast with Fire TV
After Fire TV Recast is installed, a DVR category appears on the top menu bar of your Fire Edition TV or TV with a Fire TV stick/box connected. On Now lists shows airing for received channels. Select one to watch or to set a recording. When watching Live TV using Recast, you can pause, rewind, and fast forward up to 90 minutes using Alexa or the player controls on Fire TV devices, Echo Show, or Fire TV app. Watch recordings that you made by selecting them from the My Recordings bar using Fire TV remote buttons or Alexa. To further explore what’s available to watch or record, Fire TV Recast includes a 14-day channel guide. Select it from the DVR Manager row or tell Alexa Go to Channel Guide. The guide includes TV listings for available channels. You don’t need to enter a channel number. Just use your Fire TV remote to select it. Schedule recordings up to 14 days in advance. Also, you can record single TV shows or an entire series as the episodes become available through on-screen prompts. After setting up a recording, it’s placed in the Scheduled Recordings/Recording Priority list, which is accessed via the DVR Manager. If you need to access additional Fire TV Recast settings, use the DVR Manager.
Use Fire TV Recast With Echo Show
If you have an Echo Show, Fire TV Recast is added to your Live TV viewing options. Say Alexa, go to channel guide. It shows you On Now for all your available channels. To show more, say Alexa, next. Go to a channel when you say something like Alexa, tune to CBS. Start a recording by saying the program’s name, for example, Alexa, record Gotham. The Echo Show records all upcoming episodes unless you cancel them. Echo Show can display recordings that are made. Tell Alexa to pick one by number and play it.
Use Recast With the Fire TV Smartphone App
In addition to using the Fire TV smartphone app to set up Recast, you can use it as a remote control to initiate play, pause, FF, RW, and more. You can also control over-the-air live TV through On Now, access the list of your recordings, play them back, or start a recording once a program starts (you can’t schedule recordings in advance). Use the app to record a live show when away from home, and watch recordings you made as long as you are in communication with your home network through a Wi-Fi or cellular connection. Access more Recast settings from the Fire TV smartphone app.
Additional Fire TV Recast Setup and Use Tips
Here are a few more things to keep in mind when using Fire TV Recast:
