Amazon Fire HD 8" As Remote

[Bill_Janssen (Wigwam wool socks now on asymmetrical isolation feet!)]

@Simon_Arnold3

you got an 8" Amazon fire working didn’t you?

Yep. Quite well. But Roon is the only thing I use it for – it’s a dedicated living room remote.

Roon control tablet (Roon hardware)

Neil, I got a new Fire HD 8 today, along with the charging dock for it. Working fine as a Roon remote. Here’s what I did, for future reference: Charge it up, using the supplied charger. Installed a software update, which brought the system up to version 5.6.2. Apparently this is necessary, as it wouldn’t charge in the dock until I did this. Disable Alexa and (somewhere) Show Mode. Download the Roon APK directly from Roon: http://download.roonlabs.com/builds/RoonMobile.apk. There …