How FTVDB Expanded Beyond Fire TV

FTVDB was originally meant to work with Fire TV links.

That was the natural starting point because Fire TV devices were where my own interest began, and for a long time that was the main type of data I collected. But over time people started sending me links from other Amazon devices as well.

Echo and Fire Tablet support

At first it was only a few submissions, but they were useful enough that I decided to support them properly. That is how Echo and Fire Tablet were added to FTVDB.

Those devices are not just present in the app library anymore. Their firmware links are now part of the firmware library as well, which made the project broader than I originally expected.

Learning more about Kindle

Later I read several posts on Kindle forums and realized that Kindle firmware links are also very useful for people doing repair and recovery work.

That caught my attention because the use case was very similar to what had made Fire TV links valuable in the first place: once the links are hard to find, organized public records become genuinely helpful.

On December 22, 2025, I contacted the well-known community members Scamnet and notmarek. We had a very good discussion, and it gave me a much deeper understanding of how the internal OTA engine on Kindle devices is similar to the one used on Fire TV devices.

That was especially interesting to me because it showed that Kindle support was not just a side addition. It fit naturally into the same kind of update-tracking work that FTVDB was already doing.

Thanks to the Kindle community

Scamnet and notmarek had already collected a large number of Kindle URLs, and thanks to their donation FTVDB now includes hundreds of Kindle firmware links.

I am very happy that Kindle devices are now part of FTVDB as well, and people are continuing to contribute new links there too.

That growth is one of the best things about this project. It started with Fire TV, but the community kept showing me where the data was useful next.