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Redeem Time on Fire TV

Fire OS has no menu to give an app usage access, so on a Fire TV it takes one command from a computer. Five minutes, once.

The steps

  1. 1
    Turn on ADB debugging on the TV

    Settings → My Fire TV → Developer options → ADB debugging: on.

    No Developer options? On newer Fire OS, open Settings → My Fire TV → About and press the device name entry 7 times; Developer options then appear.

  2. 2
    Find the TV’s IP address

    Settings → My Fire TV → About → Network. It looks like 192.168.1.23.

  3. 3
    Run two commands on a computer

    On a computer on the same network, with Android platform-tools installed:

    adb connect <TV-IP>:5555

    Accept the prompt that appears on the TV, then:

    adb shell appops set com.neurophonetics.redeemtime GET_USAGE_STATS allow
  4. 4
    Check it worked

    Open Redeem Time on the TV: usage access shows Usage access granted ✓.

  5. 5
    Optional: turn ADB debugging off again

    Settings → My Fire TV → Developer options → ADB debugging: off. The permission stays.

Without it

Redeem Time on a Fire TV cannot count which apps are used, and it says so on its screen. Nothing is blocked because of it, and nothing else on the TV changes.

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