Fire Stick / Amazon account / Ring doorbell
Fire Stick / Amazon account / Ring doorbell
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NiceCupOfTea

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25,595 posts

281 months

Saturday 9th October 2021
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OK, I decided to replace my venerable first generation Chromecast with the new Fire Stick 4K Max. I didn't really use the Chromecast but thought it might be good for catch up TV and watching Prime subs, etc. rather than using the Bluray player. It's a 2012 TV so the Smart bit is a bit long in the tooth.

Looks really good so far, I gather today is "release day" so I am an early adopter!

A couple of things that I don't really understand.

My wife has an Amazon Prime account, it's full of kid's stuff, etc. I have an Amazon Prime account, Ring doorbell/Alexa Dot are registered to it. Looked into the joint account before and it looks a bit st so we left it.

Anyway, it seems there is no way to share both accounts on the device or switch between them. I can't help thinking this must be a fairly common scenario. So either we can watch the kid's stuff, or we can see the Ring doorbell alerts, but not both. Can that really be so? Alternatively s there any way of registering a Ring doorbell to more than one Amazon account?

Also the Live TV bit of it seems promising but doesn't really deliver - you can watch BBC channels live, for example, but only through the iPlayer app. I was hoping to see all the available to stream channels alongside each other on an EPG and be able to bin off freeview/freesat. Was I being naive...?

So depressing that all this home automation stuff is so amazing in some ways but so dumb in others - Apple, Google, & Amazon constantly fking each other over all the time - understandable in some ways, but the consumer always loses... frown

AJB88

15,886 posts

201 months

Saturday 9th October 2021
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You could just have 1 account and have different userames under it.

When we open Prime Video (on Google TV) it asks us who is watching and you can set up different accounts, think we have 5, 4 adult and 1 child.