Lots of talk here lately of folks getting those new-fangled Fire TV’s. Congrats, I did also, and here’s an interesting config issue I stumbled on: (im the worlds worse about buyin stuff and not opening it till much later. (NOT LAZY, but honey-do’s keep me from Fishing too, so that’s how bad it is lately!) Prime Day is a distant memory it seems like, but After finally firing up and sorting the new TV to my liking, including adding Tivimate, replete with my trusty IPTV service, Kodi and the (imho defacto standard & rock solid) Crew add-on, I then tweaked good ole IPVanish to the fastest server and even bestowed the Safety Dot upon it as my wants would have. Things were smooth sailing and rocking steady with my 600 meg just a flying in the tunnel of security provided by the VPN. I know, I know, the Safety Dot is not my main trusted source that all is ok, but its still a comfort to glimpse at it’s slow flash, and it’s not too pesky. I figured that since I still have a perfectly good Cube and it has more horsepower than this fancy new tv could muster, id integrate the mini borg-box into “the collective”. I even named it “Locutus”. It was already setup and ready. One HDMI cable insertion and a reboot later, im online again.
Since I have not read about this yet, just something I found to pass along. Hope it helps someone. The Safety Dot app when running permeates and displays on top of any gui going at the time. INCLUDING any other instance if you are running another stick, box or whatever. So what I had going was the VPN was OFF on the TV so the dot was RED, but I had the Cube interface running with the VPN ON and the dot was GREEN. BLINK RED BLINK GREEN (ad infinitum) till I figured it out. Sorry for the long winded story, Summation:
If you have a FIRETV and are using a Stick or Box or Cube or whatever with it, Disable the DOT on the TV interface. Geez that’s a lot of words just to say that i guess, but reading is free, and writing it kept me out of trouble for a little while anyway. Safe Streams!
I quit using the dot back in my firestick days when I caught it flashing green and the vpn was off 
… bye bye 
I’ve heard of the occasional hiccup with Safety Dot but have never had even one hiccup on any stick I’ve ever programmed. Always worked perfectly.
So @TXRon , do you use anything similar to Safety Dot, if there is anything?
I just use ip widgets on the home screen and vpn thru router with kill switch.
Thanks for the reply, will have to read up on ip widgets…
I use this widget, will need all permissions granted. Its also in the playstore for most boxes.
IP Widget APK for Android Download
Yea Miki, same here, its always worked super for me too. In this case it actually did what its supposed to but i forgot it was running in the background from the TV interface while I was actually using the Cube interface.
Convert it to the troypoint logo, fixes everything! 
Great idea. I havent fooled with changing logos yet, but will scope it out, thanks!!
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