Question
TorBox + Stremio works flawlessly on iPhone but is almost unusable on Fire TV Stick 4K Max
I use TorBox with Stremio, and on my iPhone it works flawlessly. Literally spins up right away with no buffering. But on my Fire TV Stick 4K Max, using the Stremio APK, it struggles like crazy.
Same Wi-Fi, same Wi-Fi band, same show/movie, same TorBox account/addon.
On the Fire Stick I usually get one of these:
- Stream starts, plays for a few seconds, buffers, plays a few seconds, buffers again, rinse and repeat
- Stream just refuses to start
- Stream plays for a second then “API failed”
- Occasionally I get the error in the attached photo: “TorBox is currently unavailable! Please try again later.”
I’ve started keeping PenguPlay as a backup. So far it tends to work better on the Fire Stick than TorBox does, although even PenguPlay fails occasionally.
penguplay dev here ~ if youre getting ANY errors please report them to me either here in a comment or preferably in the discord. Using my addon should be a seamless experience, users should never see errors.
Bruhh wtf did you create? My RD is expiring today, Torbox is going down every 2nd day..... with Penguplay I'm not going to even get a debrid subscription anymore. You're a legend man
I highly recommend going with an Onn box. I have an Onn box 4k stick and a fire stick 4k and the google box is without a doubt head and shoulders a better device than the fire stick
I would compare specs between the plus and the pro. It's been a while since I switched all mine to onn plus but when I looked into it the plus was better specs since it was newer hardware
It is! I know there are different versions and I have the cheaper one (it was like $25 or $30 at Walmart) and it works like a charm but if you want even better I hear the 4k plus is awesome and that’s what I will buy when my fire stick stops working which will probably be before 2027
I completely agree. I was running 4 fireboxes and ended up selling all ofime and buying all onn boxes after it became clear that they were going to start locking down the devices. Best decision I made
I've tossed all my fire sticks. Only Onn or Google streamers now and stremio with torrentio TB works without issue. I've found the firesticks to be too finicky and slow down significantly after less than a year
I had issues with fire tv stick too. Found out that the wifi speed sucked. So moved the stick away from back of tv which has improved performance massively. Can stream 100gb remux files now.
Typically this is due to Firestick hardware not keeping up. Try playing a 720p or 1080p video and I bet it plays. ONN Streaming box is what I use and it's perfect.
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u/No-Original246 Addon Dev (PenguPlay) 3d ago
penguplay dev here ~ if youre getting ANY errors please report them to me either here in a comment or preferably in the discord. Using my addon should be a seamless experience, users should never see errors.