Can You Use Amazon Fire Stick On A Computer?

An Amazon® Burn down TV Stick™ is one of easiest ways to stream your favorite movies and shows. Only plug it into your Television receiver, connect to Wi-Fi, and press play. But what about when you're not on the couch? Is it possible to connect your Burn down Stick to your laptop?

At Asurion, our experts get questions like this every day. They help millions of customers resolve their device problems and get the most out of their favorite tech, from finding ways to make a fridge last longer to cleaning a Boob tube screen without dissentious it. Hither are their tips for how to watch Fire Stick on a laptop.

Can y'all use a Burn Stick on a laptop?

The short answer is yes—if yous have the right equipment. But it's a bit complicated. We'll dive into a deeper caption of what you'll need to use a Fire TV Stick on your laptop or estimator monitor later in this commodity. If you're just looking for ways to cast your laptop to your Fire Stick and so yous can come across what'south on your laptop on a larger screen, nosotros'll go over those steps first.

How to mirror a laptop to your Fire Stick

You lot can likewise easily mirror your reckoner screen to a TV using your Burn Stick. Your Windows™ laptop tin do this likewise. Just follow these steps:

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On your Fire Stick:

Press and hold theAbodepush button.
SelectMirroring from the menu, then selectEnable Display Mirroring.

On your Windows™ PC or laptop:

Note: Ensure your desktop PC has a wireless adapter, otherwise you volition not be able to connect to the Burn down Stick.

On the right side of your taskbar, click theNotification icon.
ClickConnect, and then select your Fire Stick from the list.
Go toSettings >Organisation >Brandish to change the resolution and scale of the screen.

Have a Mac?

Y'all can apply a tertiary-party app like AirScreen™ to mirror your MacBook® on your TV using a Fire Stick or other Fire TV™ devices.

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How to connect a Fire Stick to a laptop

As we noted earlier, you lotcan watch a Fire Stick on your laptop, but it requires a few actress steps and potentially some extra equipment.

Using HDMI

About laptops have HDMI ports similar to those on your TV, though they work in different ways. Laptops can only ship video signals using their HDMI-out ports. This allows them to connect to external monitors and televisions and mirror their screen. The Burn Stick as well uses an HDMI broadcast output to stream content. So a laptop and Fire Stick are substantially designed to do the aforementioned thing.

Using video capture

If your laptop doesn't accept an HDMI-in port, yous volition need an HDMI video capture device to hook upward your Fire Stick. This device converts the video output from your Burn down Stick into a format your estimator tin can recognize, and it also allows y'all to bypass your HDMI port and instead connect using a USB iii.0 port.

Certain video capture devices allow you to simply plug in your Fire Stick and and then connect to your laptop's USB 3.0 port to outset watching. Others may not exist compatible with the encrypted video output on a Fire Stick, so you'll need to offset connect the Burn Stick to an HDMI splitter, then to the video capture device.

Some video capture devices require special streaming software to display the Fire Stick on your laptop. OBS Studio is a free program you can download that lets you lot hands stream. Merely claw up your device, set it up on OBS Studio, and you're good to go.

Think, your Burn Stick is designed for a TV, so if the above methods don't work as intended, use your web browser to log in to your favorite streaming apps online.

How to connect a Burn down Stick to a estimator monitor

Want to use your Burn Stick on a computer monitor? Unlike a laptop, connecting your streaming device to an external monitor is simple. Just plug it into an available HDMI port on your monitor, or utilize a VGA adapter to connect your Burn down Stick to your monitor. Just be aware that not all external monitors accept built-in speakers, so yous may need to connect a pair of external ones or headphones to hear the sound. If you opt for a VGA adapter, make sure to get one with an audio output.

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