The ECF app is available for iOS and for Android mobile phones and is available for the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. Create your ECF account, you can use your Facebook, Twitter, Google accounts to sign in.
You can try out the free fireplaces or purchase a Standard or a Premium license (see below). Once you have purchased a subscription you will automatically get all the fireplaces according to your subscription. You can select what type of fires you want to enjoy, woodfires, gasfires or gas-on-pubbles fires. You can add fireplaces you especially like to your Favorites to easily return to these fires the next time. Simply click on the 'heart' in the fireplace thumbnail, or in Favorites to undo them.
You must have a Google Chromecast key installed on your flat screen TV, or a TV equipped with Chromecast. Simply click on the Chromecast icon at the right top of the screen to connect your phone to the TV set. Once the connection is established you can select any of the fireplaces to play on your TV. The fireplace will play as long as you want with just 12 MB bandwidth usage! You can turn of your phone or leave the room, the Chromecast connection takes care of everything. You can even disconnect from Chromecast and the fireplace will continue to play on your TV screen!
Using the ECF App
1 TRY ECF
Before you create an account you can try the ECF app.
Click on the red 'TRY ECF' button
4 CREATE AN ACCOUNT
Select your country and add your mobile number. E-mail address and password are mandatory.
7 CONNECT TO CHROMECAST AND SELECT FIRE TO PLAY
Follow step 2 to connect the ECF app with your Chromecast device.
Select the fire you want to play on your flatscreen. The selected fire will be loaded, this may take a few seconds. It will then play on your flatscreen until you disconnect from the Chromecast key or when you select another fire.
Note: the special fireplace video file is only uploaded once, the file size is approx. 12MB. When playing there is no further bandwidth use!
2 CONNECT TO CHROMECAST
To try the ECF app you must connect to a Chromecast dongle on the flatscreen you want to use. Click on the Chromecast icon at the right top and select the device to connect to. The Chromecast icon will turn red.
The fireplace video's do not play in the ECF app!
5 PURCHASE A LICENSE
Select the license. The standard license is limited to 3 fire types, woodfire, gasfire and gasfire on pebbles. For each fire you can select any of the fireplace front colors.
The Premium license gives you access to all fireplaces in the ECF app.
8 DISCONNECT FROM CHROMECAST
Click on the red Chromecast icon and select 'Disconnect'. The fire will stop playing.
It can happen that the fire continues to play, simply switch off the flatscreen will end the session.
You can exit the ECF app without logging out, next time you use the app you will automatically be logged into the ECF app.
3 PLAY A FIRE
Select one of the demo fireplaces to play on your flatscreen.
You can also select one of the Info & Promo videos to play on your flatscreen. The promo videos will repeat after 30 sec.
When you like the ECF go to Sign-up on the opening screen and create an account.
6 SELECT FIRETYPE AND FRONT FACE COLOR
Click on the menu bar at the left top -> My selections.
Here you can select to show only one or more fire types, or one or more fireplace front colors. Click on 'return to fireplaces' button.
