Echo Dot and Fire Stick Black Friday specials

Be nice to use that in my bedroom and give back my WiFi Joey plus have it when I'm working out of town

That's what I do as well. When traveling I take the Fire stick and remote with me and hook it up to the HDMI port on my hotel TV. Then it's just like I'm at home watching TV on my Hopper
 
Can you record from it to the Hopper?
I imagine that it works like the Dish Anywhere app on my PC. You can set timers using the Dish Anywhere app, (so you can set timers for shows that will record on the Hopper). You can bring up the program guide, then choose to watch or record shows from the program guide.
 
Can you record from it to the Hopper?

From it to the Hopper? You can use the DishAnywhere app to record, and then play back that recording (or live TV) on the Fire TV stick. But the Fire stick has HDMI output, so your Hopper cannot record from that. Did I misinterpreted your question?
I side loaded Kodi and play media from a NAS on my local network.

Oooh, I want to do that too. Can it play back MPEG2 program streams? That would be really awesome.
 
From it to the Hopper? You can use the DishAnywhere app to record, and then play back that recording (or live TV) on the Fire TV stick. But the Fire stick has HDMI output, so your Hopper cannot record from that. Did I misinterpreted your question?


Oooh, I want to do that too. Can it play back MPEG2 program streams? That would be really awesome.

I’m sure it could. Kodi can play just about anything (DRM free). I have a Raspberry Pi with a external drive connected... install Samba and create a windows share.. and point Kodi to that shared drive. If it’s from your movie collection, it’ll add album art and tv/movie descriptions.. works like plex but without the transcoding. Most of my media is mpeg4.. but im sure mpeg 2 will be just fine. It’s like the VLC of firetv’s.
 
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Whatever it takes to make us lazier and less self-sufficient and more dependent on our electronic masters LOL

Very few “Star Trek” futuristic things have ever come to fruition in modern times, but finally one has! I can tell Alexa to do just about anything except open the Holodeck and she does it ;)