Mouse Toggle for Fire TV

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About this app

Add a mouse mode to your stock Amazon Fire TV remote control.

Features:
Works just like a regular mouse that can click, long click, wheel up, wheel down, and drag.
Auto detects devices (you can also set the ip address manually)

Requirements:
1.) Fire TV or Fire TV Stick.
2.) Stock / original remote control.

Please note that the main menu does NOT support a mouse and the app you are running must have mouse support.

For help or feature requests please contact:
iostouchdev [at] gmail.com

Disclaimer: "This app was not created or endorsed by Amazon."

Thank you

Ratings and reviews

I nearly didn't buy this because of the bad reviews but then I thought it's only £2.99 so not much to lose if it's useless. It's not! It's great!!! It is rather quirky to get it to work. I spent around an hour installing the apps I needed to my Firestick 4K and carefully followed the instructions in the help section, messing about with various settings. I did everything it said to do and it still didn't work so I came out of the app completely and then ran it again. Success!! Toggle mouse works!

I don't know how but this app breaks my network. 100% reproducible. Tried it with several versions that were loaded from the Internet and now this one (after I reset the fire TV to see if that would help). Network goes to 'connected with problems' seconds after the app is installed. Reboot and problem comes back after about 30 seconds of FireTV 4K starting. Uninstall the app form the Fire TV and reboot and the problem goes away. I have two fire TVs and when this happens the app itself cannot see the fire TV (the troubleshooter sees it but it does not appear in the list) from my phone. It sees the second one with no problems. If I uninstall the app from the Fire TV and reboot it then the phone app can see it again. Still in my 2 hour windows so going for a refund. I initially gave this 3 stars, changed to 2 as it does not work and then noticed the developer does not bother to reply so set it to 1 star.

Provides useful 'mouse control' within apps on Fire TV & Stick. Sadly, for people using Fire TV (3rd gen UHD) you'll need to reduce the resolution on your Fire TV Display setting from UHD (3840) down to 1080p. Which defeats the main reason for using a UHD device. Also, if the status for Mouse Toggle is stuck on 'starting' you need to run Mouse Toggle on your phone (or other device) and run 'troubleshoot' and restart the service. If both issues are resolved ...then I'd give 5 stars.

What's new

1.12:
Bug fixes

1.11:
Adds support for Fire TV Cube, and Fire TV Edition models.

1.10:
Bug fixes

1.09:
Adds support for new 3rd Gen device.

1.081:
Fix for device auto discovery.

1.08:
Bug fixes

1.07:
Improved pointer acceleration
Mouse scroll wheel repeats

1.06:
Compatibility with latest Fire TV OS update.

1.04:
Updated UI
Fire OS 5 & Fire TV 2015 / 2nd Gen. related improvements