FireTV: no download?

[danergo 40]

One more minor thing:

 

I have removed the download (was too large file and wanted to interrupt). Download itself stopped, but the status bar remains here in settings (even after restarting Emby). I managed to remove it with force stop.

 

But this might be because of the slow USB drive (Emby wanted to remove the interrupted download, and I believe it took a lot of time and during this operation the status bar remained on the setting screen)

 

Edited May 1, 2025 by danergo

[danergo 40]

Hi Folks! I have started a download in FireTV Stick. It seemed to finish. But then it starts over. I believe this is because of how this platform handles background operations. Once emby goes to sleep it stops the download. Then it is not continuing but restarting the download which means it is not that user-friendly unfortunately. I have to sit down and keep pushing the remote to keep the emby awake in order to properly download some content. Is there any known way to overcome on this limitation?

[Luke 42186]

On 3/11/2026 at 10:35 AM, danergo said:

Hi Folks! I have started a download in FireTV Stick. It seemed to finish. But then it starts over. I believe this is because of how this platform handles background operations. Once emby goes to sleep it stops the download. Then it is not continuing but restarting the download which means it is not that user-friendly unfortunately. I have to sit down and keep pushing the remote to keep the emby awake in order to properly download some content. Is there any known way to overcome on this limitation?

HI there, can you please provide a specific example?

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Thanks !

 

[danergo 40]

Hi!

I'm doing now a thorough testing on this. I believe a standard download can not be finished because FireTV turns off before it finishes.

I mainly wish to use this to overcome limitations of slow and remote connections during my travels:

1.) Try playing my favourite episode via stream

2.) If it is laggy, let's download my favorite next episode for tomorrow while I'm [sleeping|out in city|beach].

But unnfortunately this has at least 2 blocking issues:

1. Download's status is not visible on Emby server (only very limited way: Transferring)

2. In case FireTV decides to stop Emby, download aborts. BUT when Emby restarts it can not continue the download, but it will rather restart it from zero.

 

Soon I will have logs too. But by any chance is it a known limitation on FireTV that Emby can not continue its downloads?