Install the Lumicast player on Amazon FireTV Stick – Lumicast

This guide will show you how to install the Lumicast Digital Signage player on the Amazon FireTV Stick. To be more specific, this guide has been made using the FireTV Stick 4K MAX.

Installation prerequisites

A physical display/screen with HDMI input

Power

Wi-Fi

FireTV Stick setup

Plug the FireTV Stick in to the display and plug in the power of the stick;

Follow all the steps in the setup, which are relatively straight forward;

Installing the Lumicast Digital Signage app

Go to the appstore: Find (🔍) > Appstore > Search. Then search for “Lumicast”. Scroll down a bit until you see the “Lumicast Digital Signage Player” in the category “APPS AND GAMES”. Select it and download.

Before you can keep your FireTV running 24/7, exit the Lumicast app and go to the settings:

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Settings > Display & Sounds > Screensaver

Click on “Start Time” and set it to “Never”.

Then open up the Lumicast Digital Signage Player app again and connect to Lumicast as usual: click here.

Autostart Lumicast on device boot

When your device loses power and comes back up, you usually want Lumicast to start automatically.

Open the Lumicast menu (press ‘M’ on a keyboard, or OK/enter on your remote)

Navigate down to “Launch on boot” and enable this setting

Try rebooting your device in Settings > My FireTV > Restart.

Once your Firestick comes back online, wait a few seconds. Does your Lumicast player start? Then you are done.

In most cases however, the Amazon stick won’t allow auto starting apps in this way. Proceed with the following:

Connect Your device and Grant Permissions

On Windows

Open the ADB Tools Folder

Navigate to the folder where you extracted the platform tools.

Launch Terminal in That Folder

Right-click inside the folder (but not on a file) and select:

“Open in Terminal” (Windows Terminal)

If using older Windows: Hold Shift + right-click → “Open PowerShell window here”

Start the ADB Daemon

adb devices

Expected output:

* daemon not running; starting now at tcp:5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached

Connect to the Fire TV Stick

Replace the IP address with your device’s IP:

adb connect 192.168.10.38

Approve Debugging on the Fire TV

Your Fire TV will show a prompt:

Allow USB Debugging?

Check the Connection Again

adb devices

Expected output:

192.168.10.38:5555 device

Grant Overlay Permission to Lumicast Player

adb -s 192.168.10.38:5555 shell cmd appops set lumicast.app SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW allow

Launch the App on Fire TV

Open the Lumicast player app.

The permission error should be gone, and auto-start features will now work correctly.

On macOS

Open Terminal in the Platform Tools Folder

Use Finder to locate the extracted platform-tools folder.

Right-click and select “New Terminal at Folder.”

Start the ADB Daemon

./adb devices

Expected output:

* daemon not running; starting now at tcp:5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached

Connect to Your Fire TV

./adb connect 192.168.10.38

Approve USB Debugging on the TV

A prompt will appear — check “Always allow from this computer” and press Allow.

Verify Connection

./adb devices

Expected output:

192.168.10.38:5555 device

Grant Overlay Permission to Lumicast Player

./adb -s 192.168.10.38:5555 shell cmd appops set lumicast.app SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW allow

Launch Lumicast Player

Open the app from your Fire TV home screen.

The overlay permission issue should now be resolved.