Tag: Amazon Fire TV

Upgrade Your Fire TV Experience With This New Alexa Voice Remote

Upgrade Your Fire TV Experience With This New Alexa Voice Remote

Amazon has released a new remote control that includes new power and volume controls. Meaning you may never have to go back and forth between your Fire TV remote and your TV’s remote again!

Currently priced at around $15, this remote would be an awesome upgrade for those
C Spire TV customers that are looking to make their experience even more streamlined.

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At present, the new Alexa Voice Remote control works with the following Fire TV devices:

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Learn more and purchase your new Alexa Voice Remote with Power and Volume Control today and take a step towards streamlining your entertainment experience.

Update Available for C Spire TV on Amazon Fire TV

Update Available for C Spire TV on Amazon Fire TV

We’ve published the v1.4.27 update to the C Spire TV app for Amazon Fire TV to the Amazon Fire App Store. This app update includes various performance and stability improvements over the previous version. We recommend updating your app when prompted.

Amazon Fire TV App Update Notifications

Amazon has made some changes to the way they are handling app updates on the Amazon Fire TV platform. Previously, Amazon Fire TV would update apps in the background. However, we’ve encountered a new behavior where the platform is now prompting users to update as part of the app launch sequence.

So even if you have your apps set to update automatically, you will likely get a notification asking you to update your app.

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Appstore Notification on Fire TV
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App update dialog on Amazon Fire TV.

The update takes just a few seconds and you will be up and running with a version that is more performant and stable!

C Spire TV 1.2 Release Notes

C Spire TV 1.2 Release Notes

C Spire TV 1.2 delivers vast improvements in stability across all platforms and introduces support for Android and iOS smartphones / tablets and the latest streaming media players by Amazon and Apple.

Availability: This important app update is being rolled out to the C Spire TV subscriber base over the course of the next 48-72 hours.

» How do I update the free C Spire TV app?

What’s New

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Android Support

Enjoy C Spire TV on Android smartphone or tablet. Enjoy access to live tv, on demand shows and movies, and watch your cloud DVR recordings on your iOS device running Android 7 and above.

iOS Support

Enjoy C Spire TV on your iPhone or iPad. Enjoy access to live tv, on demand shows and movies, and watch your cloud DVR recordings on your iOS device running iOS 10 and above.

Latest Streaming Media Players

C Spire TV 1.2 adds support for two newly released devices:

Smart TV’s

C Spire TV adds support for the Element Electronics line of Amazon Fire TV Edition 4K TV’s. These TV’s add Amazon Fire TV as the operating system.

Top Bug Fixes

C Spire TV 1.2 addresses a host of stability and performance issues.

Amazon Fire TV &  Android TV

  • Fixed: Resolved memory leak issue that caused slow, sluggish behavior, particularly on the Amazon Fire TV Stick (Gen 2) device.
  • Fixed: Extremely slow app load time, particularly on Amazon Fire TV Stick (Gen 2)
  • Fixed: Resolved channels freezing and crashing app.
  • Fixed: Resolved app crashing while scrolling left/right in ‘Recently Watched’ row.
  • Fixed: Resolved app crashing when making 60+ consecutive channel changes.
  • Fixed: Movies now show ‘LIVE’ badges when live.
  • Fixed: Resolved issue where grey tiles were loading in Recommendations under Shows and Movies.
  • Fixed: Resolved issue where sports programs were not showing up under Recently Watched.
  • Fixed: Resolved issue where programs playing in Guide In-Line player were being added to

Apple TV

  • Fixed: Resolved intermittent issue where a black screen would be displayed w/ audio playing after numerous channel changes.
  • Fixed: Seeking on a live program will show wrong thumbnail.
  • Fixed: Resolved an issue where Apple TV would crash when not receiving response from servers in correct format.
  • Fixed: Resolved an issue where the app would crash when trying to play some content from Recently Watched list.
  • Fixed: Resolved an issue where some sports programs would not show up in Recently Watched row.
  • Fixed: Resolved an issue where user would click a Featured Network and would not be taken to network child page.
  • Fixed: Record button is not displayed even though series have recording enabled episodes

Web

  • Fixed: Resolved very slow load time for guide data despite excellent network connection.
  • Fixed: Resolved an issue where show and movie thumbnails were pulling placeholder images instead of correct show / movie art.

We’re Customer Inspired

Have a suggestion or feedback? Please reach out and submit your idea on how to make C Spire TV better.  Then take a moment to vote on other suggestions from fellow C Spire TV subscribers. Your participation will help us determine the next features we work on!

C Spire TV 1.1 Available on Amazon Fire TV, Android TV & Apple TV

C Spire TV 1.1 Available on Amazon Fire TV, Android TV & Apple TV

C Spire TV’s latest version includes some awesome new features, improvements and important bug fixes. This update is currently available in the Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV (iTunes) and Google Play store. Learn how to update the free C Spire TV app.

For a full list of new features and bug fixes, please refer to the online C Spire TV Userguide

Top New Features

  • Recent List – New for version 1.1 is the Recent List which gives you quick access to all the live, recorded, on demand or replay tv shows and movies you’ve been watching.
  • Series Recordings (Multiple Improvements) – When setting a series recording for a series that plays on multiple channels (like CSI Miami or Friends), you will now be able to select which networks you would like to record from.
  • See All on Featured Rows – On Shows and Movies pages, there is now a link at the end of each row that will take you to a new page with all shows or movies that match the row’s genre.
  • Improved Recordings Discovery – Shows page now groups episode recordings into series tiles.
  • Record Dialogue – Made it easier to understand how to set Cloud DVR to record single episode vs. all episodes.

Top New Bug Fixes

  • Implemented better retry logic across app that is greatly minimizing occurrence of ‘net003’ and ‘net008’ errors.
  • Fixed: When seeking forward or backward on a show, app would display ‘net003’ error.
  • Fixed: When holding down right or left arrow while playing live content, app would crash and present ‘net003’ error.
  • Display progress bar on content posters for completely watched VOD, Replay TV, and Recordings
  • UI enhancements to Recently Watched module

We Want Your Feedback

C Spire TV has been crafted from the ground up based on the input from you, our amazing C Spire customers. And we want to be sure that you continue to play a major part in setting the direction of this product.

So if you have a suggestion or feedback that you think will make C Spire TV even better, we’d love for you to add your suggestion to our dedicated product feedback forum at the following address: http://cspiretv.uservoice.com.