I recently bought a Shield TV for my theater room and have enjoyed the heck out of it. I use it to play movies from Hulu, Prime as well as movies stored on my Plex server. One especially nifty thing I noticed about the main Android TV interface on the Shield is that if you search for a movie or TV show, not only does it give you information about the show, it tells you every option you have to view it, whether through Netflix, Hulu, Prime or from your Plex server.

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Because I'm the main user of the theater room I went with the Shield there, but for the rest of the house I bought Fire 4K sticks both to save on cost and because my wife uses the Alexa ecosystem a lot and I wanted to keep things consistent for her. I have noticed that while the Fire 4K sticks have the same feature I mentioned above of listing movie/tv show view options from the main interface for apps such as Hulu, Netflix and (of course) Prime, they DO NOT seem to include videos on the Plex server in this list. If I know I have a movie or show on my server, I have to manually enter the Fire 4K's Plex app to find and play it.

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I know this is a minor annoyance and it is certainly not a dealbreaker that would cause me to spend the extra cash on more Shields. I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed this and been annoyed by it? Is there any reason behind it other than that Amazon wants us to use their services rather than our local files? Is there any way to correct it other than simply wait and hope Amazon updates the Fire 4K software to read from the Plex server?