If you have an Amazon Fire TV Stick or any other device in the Fire TV family, you’re probably interested in learning how to take a screenshot. A procedure that is not very complex and can be useful. So let’s check it out.
Amazon Fire TV Stick, a great complement
The Amazon Fire TV Stick is one of those devices that is worth considering, because it is interesting both in terms of options and price. Available in two versions, the normal one and the other with the ability to play 4K content, this small HDMI stick offers access to a wide variety of online services such as Net-flix, HBO or Amazon’s own.
It is also interesting for its games and, most important of all, its integration with Alexa. That means you could control it even from other devices like Amazon smart speakers or other brands with support for its assistant.
Taking all this into account, and which cost 39 euros and 59 euros respectively for the Full HD and 4K version, the truth is that they are a highly recommended purchase . Whether you do not have a Smart TV or want to upgrade it, improve with a more complete platform or to connect to a projector or monitor that you use next to your laptop or game console.
But let’s focus on what interests us, just as we have seen how to capture screenshots on an Android TV or webOS TV , how we could capture on an Amazon Fire TV Stick.
How to take screenshots on Fire TV Stick
The operating system of an Amazon Fire TV Stick is based on Android , so we can practically do the same as with an Android smartphone and in almost the same way. One of these things is the screenshots, although here the way of taking them differs somewhat more.
There are different ways to take a screenshot on a Fire TV Stick . The official one is to use ADB , a protocol that allows you to connect via terminal or a compatible application in which we enter the device’s IP address to access and capture what it is showing.
Screenshots via ADB
To achieve captures using ADB you have to do the following:
- Access the settings of your Fire TK Stick (or Fire TV devices) and go to My Fire TV
- In this menu, access the developer options
- Activate ADB Debugging and Applications of unknown origin
Done, now you just have to connect through the terminal or via application on your device to use the ADB protocol and make the captures you need. For example, of all these options, the simplest is to use the Easy Fire Tools App.
Available from the Play Store for free download, once downloaded and installed you have to run it and click Search for devices . If both are connected to the same network they will see each other. At that time, tap to use Fire TV Stick.
If you activated the ADB Debugging option, the control will take effect and you will be able to take captures. You just have to go to the side menu and locate the Taskmanager option . At the top you will see the icon of a photo camera that will allow you to easily take captures.
In the case of wanting to do all this from a Windows, Linux or Mac PC, if you do not want to resort to using the terminal, you can use adbLink. This is a free application that you can download and whose interface is not very striking, but very simple to use.
In the same way that we have already explained with other services and platforms, when using content applications such as Net-flix, Prime Video and the like, the capture you make could result in a completely black image for copyright protection reasons. . So keep that in mind, it will be the system and some applications that will allow capturing and displaying all its content without problems.
How to video record the content of the Fire TV Stick
Is there a possibility to video record the content played from a Fire TV Stick? If you asked yourself this question, the answer is yes. There are applications that are capable of “capturing” the same image that is being displayed. The same way you could do on a computer with screen recording or an Android phone. Those yes, always with the limitations implied by copyright protections.
The problem is that the applications that allow this require powerful hardware in order not to affect other applications during their simultaneous execution or the system itself. Therefore, only in the 4K model would it be interesting to use it, although it is not the most recommended either.
The optimal option for recording content that is played via Fire TV Stick is to use an external grabber . That implies an economic investment that still does not pay you if it is not for a specific purpose. But you already decide what to do.