Preventing Amazon Fire devices from sleeping

If you are ingesting the stream from Amazon devices, you will need to disable the standard screen timeout.

4th Gen Cube

1

Download and install Android SDK Platform-Tools from https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools

2

Enable ADB debugging on your Fire device. You can do this by selecting Settings from the main screen of your Cube, selecting My Fire TV, and then Developer Options.

3

Connect to your Fire device via ADB. You can do this by connecting the Fire using your existing network or USB cable and then, on Windows, opening a Command window and running the following commands:

adb kill-server
adb start-server
adb devices
	

The last command should show the device as being connected.

4

To disable the sleep timer, run the command:

adb shell settings put secure sleep_timeout 0
	

3rd Gen Cube