NOVA is an unofficial, community-made Jellyfin client for Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, built on the official Jellyfin Android TV app (v0.19.10). It keeps Jellyfin's server connection, playback and user data, and wraps them in a cinematic, remote-first interface.
A note from the creator: I don't know how to code. I came up with the ideas, tested everything on the TV, and reported what worked and what didn't. The code was written with AI assistants (ChatGPT and Claude). I'm sharing it because it might be useful to others. Use it as it is, fork it, fix it, or add your own features.
NOVA is only a player and a remote control for software you run yourself. It does not host, provide, link to or recommend any films, shows, channels, playlists or download sources, and it comes with none built in.
- Use NOVA only with media you own or have the legal right to access.
- The optional download features talk to tools you install and configure yourself (Seerr, Radarr, Sonarr, qBittorrent). What those tools fetch, and from where, is entirely your responsibility.
- The Live TV section plays playlists or logins that you enter. Only use services you are licensed to watch.
- The NOVA project does not condone piracy or copyright infringement of any kind. If something is illegal where you live, don't use NOVA to do it.
NOVA is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Jellyfin, Amazon, Seerr, Radarr, Sonarr, qBittorrent or any other project named here.
- Cinematic home and libraries – a large hero banner with video previews, poster grids with an A–Z letter bar, sorting (A–Z, newest, year, rating), age filters and a "Surprise me" button.
- The same side bar on every page – Home, Favourites, Categories, Search, Download, Downloads, Live TV and your libraries, plus New Movies and New TV Shows.
- Film and show pages – Resume / Play from start, Continue SxEy for shows, seasons, cast, related titles and sequels.
- Music – artists as a grid, albums and tracks.
- Themes – Dark, Cinema Red, Seerr, Midnight, Amber, Emerald and Muted Purple restyle every NOVA screen, including Live TV.
- Profiles – pick an avatar for each person on the "Who's watching" screen.
- Kids lock – a PIN is needed to play anything rated 15 / R or above (on by default, PIN
0000, change it in Settings).
- Bring your own M3U / M3U8 playlist (with an optional XMLTV guide) or Xtream Codes login from a TV service you subscribe to.
- Category pills, channel cards with what's on now, a live preview window, favourites, channel search and full-screen playback with channel up/down.
- Nothing is pre-loaded: you enter your own details on the TV, and they're stored only on that device.
These only appear if your server is set up for them (see Optional extras below).
- Download page – search any film or show, browse by genre, studio, network or language, and open a preview with the trailer, description and age rating.
- Requests through Seerr, with a season picker for TV shows.
- Choose a copy – see the releases Radarr / Sonarr find, sorted by your Custom Format scores, and pick one.
- Downloads page – progress, size, speed, seeds/peers and status from qBittorrent, with Pause / Resume, Other copy (blocklist and search again) and Delete.
- Delete from the server – removes a title through Radarr / Sonarr, Seerr and Jellyfin (protected by a PIN).
- Server storage – free space shown in Settings.
- Optional Indian films setting – adds Hindi and Punjabi to the Download page, and sends Indian-language films to a Radarr root folder with "Indian" in its name.
- Open NOVA on start-up – NOVA can come up by itself when the Fire TV turns on or wakes.
- Navigation sounds – Fire TV-style clicks as you move around (can be switched off).
- A Jellyfin server (a recent version).
- An Amazon Fire TV device running Fire OS (Fire TV Stick 4K Max, Fire TV Cube, older Fire TV Sticks). The newest 2026 Fire TV Stick 4K / 4K Select / HD run Vega OS and cannot install Android apps. Check under Settings → My Fire TV → About.
- Other Android TV devices may work, but Fire TV is the target.
- Download NOVA-FireTV.apk from the Releases page.
- On the Fire TV: Settings → My Fire TV → Developer options → turn on ADB debugging and Apps from unknown sources (to see Developer options, open About and press OK on the device name seven times).
- Find the Fire TV's IP address under Settings → My Fire TV → About → Network.
- On a computer with adb:
(Or use the Downloader app on the Fire TV with the APK's link.)
adb connect <fire-tv-ip> adb install -r NOVA-FireTV.apk - Open NOVA, connect to your Jellyfin server and sign in.
Optional: for Open NOVA on start-up on Fire OS 8, also run:
adb shell appops set app.nova.firetv.iptv SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW allow
- Change delete PIN and Change kids lock PIN (both start as
0000). The first time you change one, NOVA also asks you to choose an 8-digit master code, which unlocks any PIN if you forget it. Each TV has its own; there is no built-in code. - Theme, Navigation sounds, Open NOVA on start-up and Indian films as you like.
NOVA finds everything through your Jellyfin server, so there is nothing to type in on the TV:
- Install Seerr (or Jellyseerr / Overseerr) and connect it to Radarr and Sonarr.
- In Radarr and Sonarr, add qBittorrent as the download client (for the Downloads page).
- Install the JellyBridge plugin on Jellyfin and enter your Seerr URL and API key in its settings.
- Sign in to NOVA with a Jellyfin administrator account (NOVA reads the JellyBridge settings).
Without these, NOVA works as a normal Jellyfin player and the download pages simply stay empty.
Again: NOVA does not supply or suggest any indexers, trackers or sources. Configure your own tools responsibly and legally.
Every push builds the APK with GitHub Actions (Actions → latest run → Artifacts). Tagging a version (v1.2.0) also publishes a Release with the APK and the full patched source.
The workflow:
- fetches Jellyfin Android TV v0.19.10,
- copies in the files from
custom/andassets/, - runs the patch scripts in
tools/, - builds and signs the release APK.
Forks without signing secrets get a throwaway key, so their APK installs but not over an official build. To sign your own builds, add NOVA_KEYSTORE_BASE64, NOVA_KEYSTORE_PASSWORD, NOVA_KEY_ALIAS and NOVA_KEY_PASSWORD as repository secrets.
Pull requests are welcome – bug fixes, clean-ups and new features. Please keep the project free of any content sources, playlists, indexers or instructions for obtaining copyrighted material.
NOVA is derived from Jellyfin Android TV (GPL-2.0). See UPSTREAM.md.
This project is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2, like the upstream project. See LICENSE. The full source for every release is published alongside the APK.
NOVA is not an official Jellyfin project and is not endorsed by the Jellyfin team. It is provided as-is, with no warranty.